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The Balkanization of Politics: Crime and Corruption in Albania
Get PDFIn the last few years, Albania, as well as other South Eastern and Mediterranean countries, have shown increased growth in corruption affecting every level of political power. Organized crime is becoming more sophisticated as it consolidates links between Albanian clans and the wider criminal world. According to the EU, the FBI and other police organization reports, while the situation concerning organized crime and corruption is grave throughout the Balkans, it is especially so in Albania, even as its authorities are continuing to implement talks for future membership in the EU. Efforts to combat this problem have thus far been insufficient. Authorities appear to not admit the full extent of criminal links among individuals across state offices, the police and politics. In many areas the traffickers work with the complicity of police and customs officials and enjoy the protection of high-ranking politicians. Corruption remains endemic and is destined to seriously undermine efforts for democratization of the society. This is a sort of vicious cycle: every institution in Albania is affected by organized crime which hampers democracy and economic development; any attempts to change the situation, like the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe seem to be ineffective. This paper aims to analyze the problem of corruption and illegality in the current period in Albania and to measure its infiltration, via local authorities, into every level of the political, economic and social life.EU-East-Central Europe; transparency; democratization; civil society; pre-negotiation
‘La Scienza politica e la ‘buone pratiche’ della ricerca e della disseminazione’
No full textLa scienza politica e le «buone pratiche» della ricerca e della disseminazione.
Eugenia Baroncelli, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna
Daniela Irrera, Scuola Superiore Universitaria della Difesa
Abstract.
Diversamente da altre scienze sociali, la Scienza politica studia i cambiamenti nei comportamenti collettivi ma è contestualmente chiamata ad offrire soluzioni politicamente accettabili a problemi pubblici, che oggi sempre più trascendono l’ambito interno e sono influenzati da - o si riflettono su quello globale. Questo contributo discute con approccio critico e propositivo le principali evoluzioni nella cooperazione accademica italiana, tramite reti di ricerca nazionali ed internazionali, nelle relazioni con gli stakeholders e nelle possibilità di dissemination e di impatto. Le buone pratiche correnti sono analizzate criticamente alla luce delle sfide globali più attuali, tra cui la riduzione della libertà accademica, il cambiamento climatico e la ridefinizione degli studi sul globale. Inclusività e collaborazione con il Global South, da un lato, e opportuna gestione della crescente interdisciplinarietà, dall’altro, sono alcune delle priorità qui individuate, partendo da case studies ed esempi specifici, utilizzati per discutere punti di forza e di debolezza della realtà italiana.
Political Science and the ‘good practices’ of research and dissemination
Eugenia Baroncelli, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna
Daniela Irrera, Scuola Superiore Universitaria della Difesa
Different from other social sciences, Political science studies the changes occurring in social behavior but is simultaneously relied on to offer collective solutions that are also politically acceptable. Currently, these latter transcend the domestic domain, and are influenced by – or reverberate on – the global domain. Through a critical and proactive approach, this contribution discusses the main evolutions that have materialized in Italian academic cooperation, via national and international research networks, in the relations with a variety of stakeholders, and with respect to the opportunities for dissemination and impact. Good practices are critically analyzed in light of some momentous challenges at the global level, such as the compression of academic freedom, climate change and the redefinition of global studies. Inclusiveness and collaboration with the Global South on the one side, and effective management of the growing interdisciplinary features, on the other, are some among the priorities identified in this chapter, which builds on case studies and exemplary cases to discuss strengths and weaknesses of the academic research practices and dissemination in Italy
Gli Stati criminali un possibile modello esplicativo
No full textSi tratta dell'introduzione al volume di Daniela Irrera Gli Stati criminali, dove vengono comparati i casi di Columbia, Serbia e Afganista
How a lasting settlement to the Russia-Ukraine war can be achieved
No full textFor Ukraine’s citizens to return to a normal way of life, it will be necessary to establish a sustainable peace between the country and Russia. Daniela Irrera argues a coherent debate on the future settlement in Ukraine should not wait for the end of hostilities – it should start now and involve the commitment of western powers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
NGO-led rescue operations in the Mediterranean: saving people, alleviating EU responsibilities
Get PDFSeveral EU governments have sent ships to the Mediterranean as part of efforts to tackle the ongoing migration crisis, but a number of non-governmental actors have also been involved in conducting operations. Daniela Irrera writes on the role of these actors and whether overreliance on NGOs could prove problematic if there is an upturn in attempted crossings in the central Mediterranean following the EU’s agreement with Turkey
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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