Search results for "terror"

Una convergenza oggettiva tra mafia, terrorismo e forze eversive

2017

«Il vero nodo da sciogliere oggi è perciò quello della mafia inserita nell’attuale sistema di potere. Affrontare questo tema significa entrare nell’ordine di idee di costruire un nuovo sistema di potere, basato veramente sulla democrazia politica e sulla democrazia economica in Sicilia». Così, nel lontano 1964, e in poche sintetiche frasi, Pio La Torre offre ai deputati dell’Assemblea Regionale siciliana una lucida analisi del fenomeno mafioso; nella quale la militanza politica è indisgiungibile da una precisa idea di società e di democrazia. La mafia è un problema politico e della politica; poiché mina alla base il principio di uguaglianza e di giustizia sociale. Lo scontro con i gabelloti…

An overestimated relationship? Violent political unrest and tourism foreign direct investment in the Middle East

2010

Although the tourism industry is increasingly globalising, empirical research on the accompanying foreign direct investment (FDI) is surprisingly lacking. Furthermore, the nexus of political risk, violent political unrest and tourism FDI has been relatively neglected. Using Egypt as a heuristic case study and adopting a qualitative methodology, this paper explores the question of how political risk and violent political unrest influence tourism FDI. Surprisingly, the results are not able to corroborate a clear relationship between the two. In contrast, these results indicate that the role of stability and security for tourism FDI in developing countries has largely been overestimated in the…

Comparing the Socio-Political Ethics of Fighting Terrorism with Extreme Self-Defense in USA

2018

In this study the authors adopted a post-positivist research design philosophy to explore the likelihood that Americans would support extreme self-defense policies like torture, reducing human rights or banning Muslims to fight against global terrorism, especially after 9/11 and in light of the Trump conservative government. The authors grounded their research questions into the literature to form hypotheses in a correlational design strategy which they tested using nonparametric statistics. They collected opinions from 3213 Americans during 2016-2017 about applying extreme self-defense tactics to combat global terrorism and how these opinions contrasted between those holding a conservative…

Terroryzm w obliczu bezpieczeństwa państwa

2018

TERRORISM IN THE FACE OF STATE SECURITYThe article focuses on the issue of the threat of terrorism. Terrorism plays a vital role in the environment, gradually becoming a major threat to any conflict affecting the functioning of the state. Experience has shown that in the fight against terrorism, the key to victory is the exchange of intelligence and new techniques and procedures for action. Anti-terrorism methods are continually evolving as a result of new trends and ways in which terrorist activities are carried out.

Mediación penal: un instrumento para la tutela penal (Criminal Mediation: An Instrument for Criminal Justice)

2012

Spanish Abstract: La mediacion penal constituye una realidad escasamente presente en la justicia espanola. Sin embargo, esta situacion parece ir cambiando con el paso del tiempo abriendose a sectores nunca antes valorados. El presente articulo analiza las ventajas de la mediacion penal y sus dificultades a la hora de incardinarse en el modelo espanol de justicia. English Abstract: Criminal mediation is an institution lacking real use in Spanish criminal justice. However, there is much room for it to play. This article analyzes its advantages and the difficulties that it encounters in order to be fully implemented in the Spanish criminal justice arena.

Violent Alternatives to War. Justifying Actions Against Contemporary Terrorism

2021

Review of "Cuando Los Mundos Convergen, terrorismo, narcotráfico y migración post 9/11. [When the Worlds Converge: Terrorism, Narco-traffic and Migra…

2015

English Speaking Countries and the Culture of Fear

2020

The direct intervention or full-scare led wars are ideologically legitimized by the needs of bringing the ideals of American democracy, liberty, freedom and mobility. However, at the bottom, this globalized culture of fear hidden dark interests associated to exploitation. Paradoxically, these types of interventions suggest that terrorism needs the use of force, but in so doing, impotence and deprivation surface. Undoubtedly, Anglo and Latin worlds have created, according to their cultural matrices, diverse tactics to adapt to environment, as the form of understanding the future. While Anglo-countries developed a fascinating attraction to risk and future, the sense of predestination alludes …

Constructing an American fear culture from red scares to terrorism

2013

Building on the work of social analysts who have identified the emerging culture of fear in the USA, this article argues that the current fears about terrorism derive from deliberate campaigns by the world capitalism’s elites. It traces the history of political scares since the late 19th century to show an evolution from red scares to terrorism. While acknowledging the complexities of cultural constructions, the obsession with terrorism is shown as an outgrowth and offspring of earlier, anti-communist hysterias in the USA.

Huntington and the liberal thought. Problems of Anglo-democracy to understand politics

2013

The liberal thought has inspired philosophy and sociology during years. From its view, US has two main goals. One is to expand the civilized culture to other non-western countries, and second to grant the democratic values. Paradoxically, terrorism poses one of the most troubling aspects of contemporanean democracy. On one hand, not only it defies the democratic resources to anticipate the next blow, but also put US to conduct one-sided attacks to autonomous countries. To legitimize the expansion of this new imperial order, the liberal discourse appealed to two strategies: first and foremost, denoting pejoratively as the case of Latin America that there is a cultural matrix that impedes the…