Archivio della ricerca della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Not a member yet
26957 research outputs found
Sort by
Borders Ending Nowhere: The Geopolitical Imaginaries and Practices of Russia’s Spheres of Interest in Africa
No full textRussia has been involved in Africa since Tsarist times, but its involvement has ebbed and flowed. Nonetheless, the idea of Africa as an open political landscape in which Russia could act as a great power has been relatively persistent, often in connection with the domestic resurfacing of civilisational discourses on Russian exceptionalism. Recently, there has been much concern in the West about the expansion of Russian projection in Africa, with some suggesting that Moscow is establishing a sphere of influence. Our analysis of Russia’s geopolitical imagination and its subsequent practices does not lead us to conclude that a deliberate attempt to establish a genuine sphere of influence is underway. Instead, we see an opportunistic endeavour to assert and shape a geographically continuous sphere of interest (Russian: sfera interesov), negotiating with local partners forms of collaboration that reflect and prompt change in the international system
Reconstructing Criminalisation. Regulatory Crimes and the Authoritarian Foundations of Modern Substantive Criminal Law
No full textCriminalisation theories have traditionally neglected regulatory criminal law. This paper argues that this approach is unjustified and calls for a change. By showing the historical and contemporary relevance of regulatory criminalisation, it contends that theories in this field should be reconstructed around it, claiming that this shift reveals the authoritarian foundations of modern substantive criminal law. The paper is structured as follows. First, it outlines the pervasiveness of regulatory criminal law in contemporary Western constitutional democracies. Then, it traces its genealogy to premodern police power, highlighting its importance in the development of modern criminal law as public law. Next, it critiques traditional criminalisation theories – the harm principle, the wrongness constraint, and the Rechtsgutlehre – for treating regulatory crimes as marginal deviations from their moral philosophical framework. It discusses the causes of this attitude and its descriptive and normative implications, emphasising that in doing so criminalisation theories nurture the Enlightenment liberal ideal of criminal law as an exceptional ultima ratio while, in practice, they legitimise its extensive regulatory reach and obscure its authoritarian dimension. The paper concludes by exploring the relationship between criminalisation, authority, and political order revealed by recentring these theories on regulatory criminal law and outlining its consequences for addressing overcriminalisation
Coarse-graining Complex Networks for Control Equivalence
No full textThe ability to control complex networks is of crucial importance across a wide range of applications in natural and engineering sciences. However, issues of both theoretical and numerical nature introduce fundamental limitations to controlling large-scale networks. In this paper, we cope with this problem by introducing a coarse-graining algorithm. It leads to an aggregated network which satisfies control equivalence, i.e., such that the optimal control values for the original network can be exactly recovered from those of the aggregated one. The algorithm is based on a partition refinement method originally devised for systems of ordinary differential equations, here extended and applied to linear dynamics on complex networks. Using a number of benchmarks from the literature we show considerable reductions across a variety of networks from biology, ecology, engineering, and social sciences
Regioni, integrazione sociosanitaria e tutela della fragilità: alcuni profili di innovazione
No full text"Sarà il giudice a scegliere il rimedio più appropriato": l'inciso definitivo della Corte costituzionale tra sindacato accentrato di costituzionalità e meccanismo diffuso di attuazione del diritto UE
No full textTechnological innovation to standardise and harmonise personal injury damages: practical scenarios and their implications on the compensation paradigms
Full text linkThis paper analyses the barriers towards the harmonisation of heads of damages and their compensation criteria, providing a proposal of standardisation based on interdisciplinary remarks. In particular, personal injury damages compensation paradigms could take the chance to apply technical variables used in bioengineering and biorobotic studies in order to assess the performance, usability and acceptability of allied technologies and medical devices, like prosthesis. By measuring the efficacy on the user’s quality of life, it could be possible to extract variables to also analyse the residual compromission of health integrity of the accident that caused the given injur
