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Legitimising countering extremism at an international level: the role of the United Nations Security Council
No full textThis chapter investigates the standardisation and legitimisation of countering extremism at an international level. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it examines the UN Security Council’s discourse on extremism. It is argued here that the concept has problematically been assigned a wide range of meanings, encompassing phenomena that go from physical violence to behaviours and even ideas. The Council has reflected but also mutually constituted this shift in the global discourse on terrorism, broadening and legitimising States’ and the same organ’s exceptional powers. Moreover, in virtue of its legal and political powers, it has also established international bodies and legal norms, enforcing them on States. Discussing these processes, the chapter analyses what is thus better conceptualised as a Foucauldian dispositif of extremism. Through this, the UNSC enforced global, standardised governmentality. In the name of fighting and preventing extremism, this governmentality encompassed the public and political realm, but also the private and domestic sphere.Depto. de Relaciones Internacionales e Historia GlobalFac. de Ciencias Políticas y SociologíaFALSEpu
El Terrorismo Internacional como Amenaza al Orden Internacional. El Caso del Estado Islámico.
No full textThe Construction of the Discourse on “Terrorism"
Full text linkArtículos en revistasThe aim of this paper is to run a critical analysis –at a theoretical level –of the production of knowledge, specifically, the one on “terrorism”. The main argumentation is that the way this is created resembles in many ways the way scientific knowledge is produced in a society. In this sense, this paper seeks to draw a reflection on the creation of the discourse that constructs “terrorism”. The starting point is, hence, the fact that, as the creation of scientific truths is never neutral, so is the one related to this kind of specific violence. As a matter of fact, as other ones, this “regime of truth”on terrorism is created through specific processes that reify certain relations of powers. It is because of this reason that the “knowledge on terrorism” should not be accepted uncritically but analyzed and questioned.The aim of this paper is to run a critical analysis –at a theoretical level –of the production of knowledge, specifically, the one on “terrorism”. The main argumentation is that the way this is created resembles in many ways the way scientific knowledge is produced in a society. In this sense, this paper seeks to draw a reflection on the creation of the discourse that constructs “terrorism”. The starting point is, hence, the fact that, as the creation of scientific truths is never neutral, so is the one related to this kind of specific violence. As a matter of fact, as other ones, this “regime of truth”on terrorism is created through specific processes that reify certain relations of powers. It is because of this reason that the “knowledge on terrorism” should not be accepted uncritically but analyzed and questioned.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
«Prigionieri nel nostro mare». Il Mediterraneo, gli inglesi e la non belligeranza del «Duce» (1939-1940)
No full textL’avventura italiana nel secondo conflitto mondiale cominciò il 10 giugno 1940. L’alleato tedesco vi era già impegnato da nove mesi, cioè da quando aveva invaso la Polonia, il 1° settembre 1939, causando l’intervento di Francia e Gran Bretagna. Perché, dunque, Mussolini, che il 22 maggio 1939 aveva firmato con Hitler un’alleanza militare, nota come Patto d’acciaio, non aveva immediatamente incrociato le armi? Questo volume cerca di chiarire i motivi per cui il «Duce», prima, scelse la strada della non belligeranza, poi, dopo molte incertezze, optò per scendere in campo al fianco del «Führer». Il volume, basato su una ricca documentazione archivistica e su un’ampia bibliografia, italiane e straniere, ruota attorno all’evoluzione dei non lineari rapporti tra Roma e Berlino, da un lato, e Roma e Londra, dall’altro
Making women terrorists into “Jihadi brides”: an analysis of media narratives on women joining ISIS
No full textAlthough the involvement of women in terrorist activities is not new, it is still considered to be an exceptional phenomenon. The figure of a woman militant contradicts the main gender constructions and thus produces a certain shock and disconcertment in societies. In the case of “Jihadism”, women who willingly join a terrorist organisation also challenge the Western Neo-Orientalist perspective on Muslim women in the West. Starting from these theoretical standpoints, this article focuses on a group of terrorists who have recently received a great deal of attention: ISIS women jihadis. Based on a critical discourse analysis of three main UK broadsheets, this article presents, deconstructs and problematises the main depictions that were used to describe these subjects. Furthermore, it discusses how the frames described reconcile these women’s actions with the gender and Neo-Orientalist constructions that circulate in Western societies, safeguarding the deriving hegemonic narratives. In other words, the article focuses on how women terrorists are made into “Jihadi Brides”
The principle of subsidiarity and the ethical factor in Giuseppe Toniolo's thought
No full textIn this work we present some traits of the socio-political and economic thought of Giuseppe Toniolo, who lived in Italy at the turn of the XIX and XX century, with special reference to the contribution that the Italian economist and sociologist gave to the definition and implementation of the principle of subsidiarity and to the ethical foundation of economic science. After outlining the definition of the subsidiarity principle in the first paragraph, we sketch the historical background in which Toniolo lived and operated. We then focus on the ethical factor and on the concept of subsidiary state emerging from Toniolo's writings. Finally, we present some of the main elements of Toniolo's legacy with reference to the current economic and socio-political debate
A re-assessment of the relation between saving and economic growth from the marginalist thinkers to the debate of the 1950s
No full textThis paper proposes a historical overview of the most significant theories on saving and its relationship with economic growth from marginalist thinkers of the early 20th century to the contributions of the 1950s. In particular, the paper analyses and discusses the differences and the links of the neoclassical and Keynesian traditions on this topic, by illustrating and comparing the contributions of Fisher and Keynes, Harrod-Domar and Solow-Swan, arriving to Modigliani-Friedman. The paper argues that this debate was characterized by paradoxes and surprises, as the results of one school were partly refused and partly recovered by the other and vice versa. The figure of Frank Ramsey will be discussed, too. He was mostly overlooked by the economic literature until the 1960s, but his interaction and (possibly reciprocal) influence with Keynes, his mentor in Cambridge, on the topic of saving and development are paradigmatic of what is addressed in this wor
Modernità del pensiero di Giuseppe Toniolo: l'economia sociale fondata sul principio di sussidiarietà
No full textThis paper wants to demonstrate the contribution of Giuseppe Toniolo to the formalization and implementation of the principle of subsidiarity. After a quick overview on the historical, political,
economic and social background between the unification of Italy and the First World War, this work examines the thought of Giuseppe Toniolo about the open issues of his time, under the light of the
principle of subsidiarity. At the end, the legacy and relevance of the cultural and scientific contribution of the Pisan economist are briefly outlined
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