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✏️ Commentary, analysis & discussion of current events and cultural artifacts related to security politics, policies & routines. Research group SPIRE

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🎺🎺🎺New post on Security Praxis Blog!🎺🎺🎺 Checkpoints in #Egypt: Core Mechanisms of a #Police State and Their Social Implications by Aly El Raggal securitypraxis.eu/checkpoint…

Checkpoints in Egypt: Core Mechanisms of a Police State and Their Social Implications

This brief article analyzes Egyptian checkpoints as central mechanisms of the police state, a legacy of the Mubarak era (1981–2011) and core feature of today’s political economy of coercion and...

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✏️✏️✏️New blog post on Security Praxis✏️✏️✏️ Drifting Further Away? #Authoritarian Consolidation and Civic Resistance in #Georgia By Sophie Gueudet Post published in the frame of RE-ENGAGE, EU H2020 project (grant 101132314) securitypraxis.eu/drifting-f…

Drifting Further Away? Authoritarian Consolidation and Civic Resistance in Georgia

The EU’s credibility in promoting democratic norms in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood has been severely undermined by its notorious tolerance of autocratic leaders such as Vučić and the...

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Join us for the two-day conference “The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean & Beyond” @SantAnnaPisa, Palazzo Boyl, 5-6 June 2025, final meeting of SHUT-MED PRIN project led by @EugenioCusumano @Raineri_Lu
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Conference “The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean and Beyond”, in the framework of the PRIN project SHUT-MED, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Palazzo Boyl, Pisa, 5-6 June 2025
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SHUT MED is a PRIN-funded project led by @EugenioCusumano Università di Messina & co-led by @Raineri_Lu @SantAnnaPisa. It engages with Securitizing Human Transit across the Central Mediterranean route & mobility governance discourses & practices in Italy, Malta, Libya, and Niger
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This is the final conference for which SHUT-MED team has invited colleagues to discuss preliminary findings & engage with the community at large, some of them have been following SHUT-MED since a while. Webex link available, by PM.
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13 May 2025
With Marta Cavallaro, we explore for @newhumanitarian "Can dialogue with jihadist groups bring peace to the Sahel?"thenewhumanitarian.org/opini… NIJAR Project "Negotiating with Islamist and jihadi armed groups: practices, discourses and mechanisms" @SantAnnaPisa @AfriconnectSSSA

Can dialogue with jihadist groups bring peace to the Sahel?

Warfighting has only deepened wounds, hardened divides, and fuelled new insurgencies – a rethink is long overdue.

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EPOS Seminar on International Affairs: "Wider #Mediterranean. Sea of Crisis or Sea of Opportunity?" May 5th, 5 pm Aula 21 Piazza Scaravilli 2, University of Bologna @Unibo with Matteo Dian @matteo_dian Francesco Strazzari @franxstrax @EdoardoBaldaro @GiuliaCimini1 Insaf Dimassi
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#SaveTheDate: 3 April. Seminar "The Edges of Control: Externalizing Migration Governance and Its Entanglements with Crime in North Africa" Chair @Raineri_Lu, @SantAnnaPisa, Speaker @luigiachilli @EUI_EU @AfriconnectSSSA at Sant'Anna Pisa, and online
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New post on Security Praxis Blog Transitional justice failure? The international responses to #Yazidi #genocide by Ksenia Kumanina securitypraxis.eu/transition…

Transitional justice failure? The international responses to Yazidi genocide

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Sinjar region, resulting in mass killings and enslavement of at least 12,000 Yazidis. The IS crimes...

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francesco strazzari - @zaz.bsky.social@franxstrax
23 Mar 2025
Questa sera alle 20.30 sono a @Presa_Diretta su Rai3 per commentare l’attualità internazionale
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Irene Panozzo@ipanozzo
12 Mar 2025
Nei prossimi gg il conflitto in #Sudan e sua terribile crisi umanitaria al centro di due eventi a cui parteciperò. Titoli simili e necessari A #Roma sab 15/3, ore 18.30, libreria Ubik via Barbieri 7. A #Milano merc 19/3, ore 21, Centro PIME, Sala Girardi, via Mosè Bianchi 94.
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LucaRaineri@Raineri_Lu
14 Mar 2025
The UN-sponsored Independent Commission of Inquiry has presented yesterday a report detailing “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence by Israeli Security Forces”. It is a bomb. Completely overlooked by all Italian media (except @ilmanifesto)
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LucaRaineri@Raineri_Lu
11 Mar 2025
Today ⁦@ScuolaSantAnna⁩, a stellar panel will be discussing gold mining amidst conflict and resilience, an opportunity of reappraising the debate on resource conflicts in #Africa. Don’t miss it! santannapisa.it/it/evento/ar…
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New post on Security Praxis blog The Darwinian moment in the #EU: The Defense pact By @franxstrax securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-…

The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact

Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. Once again, conflicts over borders and...

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New post on Security Praxis.🆕🆕🆕 Second part of the interview with Prof. Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, and IFAD By @sofiscialoja securitypraxis.eu/interview-…

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part II

This is the second part of the interview with Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor of Economics at the University of Lomé (Togo), former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources, and...

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27 Feb 2025
grazie a LUC e @UNIMORE_univ per l’invito a parlare di Frontiere d’Europa nell’era Trump
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New post on Security Praxis Interview with Prof. Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, and IFAD By @sofiscialoja securitypraxis.eu/interview-…

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part I

During this interview, Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor in Economic at the University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, former Minister...

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✴️✴️✴️ New post on the Security Praxis blog ✴️✴️✴️ The #Anthropocene impact on the de-peripheralization of the #Arctic 🖊️🖊️🖊️By Sofia Galeotti securitypraxis.eu/the-anthro…

The Anthropocene impact on the de-peripheralization of the Arctic

The Arctic is among the world's most climate-fragile regions, being very responsive to temperature increases. In the Anthropocene epoch, the Arctic’s “surface air temperatures have warmed at approx...

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9 Jan 2025
#SaveTheDate 🗓️ È in programma mercoledì 15 gennaio, il seminario “L’attivismo islamico nel Maghreb. Politiche e ideologie contemporanee”, che include la presentazione del volume di Ester Sigillò e Massimo Ramaioli. ℹ️ Maggiori informazioni: santannapisa.it/it/evento/la…
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