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In quest of a Euro-Mediterranean equilibrium. Italy, the European Political Cooperation, and the Middle East-North Africa (1970-1975)
No full textThis PhD thesis, situated at the intersection of the history of Italian foreign policy and the history of European integration, explores Italy’s role and contribution to the early Mediterranean initiatives undertaken by the European Political Cooperation (EPC) between 1970 and 1975, with a specific focus on the Middle East-North Africa region. Leveraging the EPC framework – i.e., an intergovernmental mechanism of foreign policy consultation and coordination among the Member States of the European Community (EC), established in 1970 – this study seeks to address a peculiar historiographical interpretative issue for the period under scrutiny, namely, the interaction between the Mediterranean and European “vocations” within the foreign policy of Republican Italy. As such, it delves into how these two dimensions intertwine, sometimes reconcile, and at other times clash – and, consequently, how this dialectic was influenced by the evolution of the European integration process, the international backdrop of the Cold War, and Italy’s dual capacity as both a European and Mediterranean actor. To this end, three initiatives are considered, which arguably came to represent an embryonic Mediterranean component of the EC’s external action: the EPC debates and declarative initiatives regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD), and the EPC preliminary negotiations on the Mediterranean Chapter of the Helsinki Final Act within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). On a broader level, the dissertation further seeks to assess Italy’s role in defining a cohesive European external actorness at a time when the Community was making its earliest attempt to define and project a distinctive identity in the international arena. Indeed, as elucidated in the introduction, the chosen time frame of focus is duly justified: not only were the first half of the Seventies years of significant destabilisation in the Southern Mediterranean, but they also constituted the “formative period” of the EPC, during which Italy endeavoured to translate and integrate its national foreign policy directives within the European framework.
Concerning the methodology and sources, the study adopts a multi-archival approach, with extensive research having been conducted across various archives both in Italy and abroad, including digital archival repositories. Among them, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Fondo Aldo Moro; Archivio Storico del Senato della Repubblica, Fondo Mariano Rumor; Archivio Storico Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Archivio Giulio Andreotti; Archivio Storico Diplomatico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri; Archivio Storico della Presidenza della Repubblica; Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères; The National Archives; Historical Archives of the European Union; Historical Archives of the European Commission; Archive of European Integration; US National Archives and Records Administration; US Digital National Security Archive. Such primary sources are examined and interpreted in light of a broad corpus of literature in Italian, English, and French, as well as documentary collections and newspaper articles. Moreover, the dissertation features dozens of scholarly works in Arabic language
Verdad e historiografía española en torno a Felipe II : gracias y desgracias de una relación móvil
No full textSous la direction de Pierre Darnis et Fabrice Quero.International audienc
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No full textObra ressenyada: Pierre DARNIS, La picaresca en su centro. Guzmán de Alfarache y los orígenes de un género. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2015
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Full text linkObra ressenyada: Pierre DARNIS, La picaresca en su centro. Guzmán de Alfarache y los orígenes de un género. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2015
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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