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Espías sin fronteras
2000
La società dell'orrore. Terrorismo e comunicazione nell'era del giornalismo emotivo
2018
Il testo analizza l'attuale configurazione della relazione tra media informativi e terrorismo, focalizzando l'attenzione sulla crescente centralità della componente simbolica nelle strategie comunicative dell' ISIS e sull'uso propagandistico di vecchi e nuovi media. In particolare, viene messa in evidenza e problematizzata la questione del ruolo dello spettatore mediale dinanzi allo spettacolo della sofferenza di altri lontani cui assiste quotidianamente, tema che è al centri un un ampio dibattito scientifico internazionale..
Terrorism and the Allegory of the Lone Wolf: From 9/11 to COVID-19
2021
The lone wolf is a personality type that symbolizes individualism and a deep yet sometimes dangerous quest for self-search. At its very extreme, this search turns out to become hatred for anything that these wolves cannot identify themselves with. In this regard, even some societies are lone wolves. We have lone wolf groups, communities, societies, and even nation-states. By analysis, terrorists carry certain traits of lone wolves, although not every lone wolf would be(come) a terrorist. Some rather grow into hermits and saints. Globalization, a central theme of this book, has a lot to do with the development of the lone wolf trait the way we see it now. Instead of flattening the world’s cu…
Terrorism in Argentina: government as its own worst enemy
2005
Violence as a Subject of Social Science I The Specificity of Political Violence
2021
In contrast to the world's uniformity all types of violence are observed: urban violence, in poor countries where conflicts are incomprehensible from outside, violence which surface is religious in countries of Muslim tradition, fundamentalist violence, nationalist, racist; violence in the world system which accepts the growing difference between poor and rich. Judiciary violence in executions in States that seem the principal warrantors of social peace. There is violence throughout the globe and under surveillance by the great power. It could be said that the global system tolerates a certain “reserve of violence” and obtains certain profits, as well as the economy tolerates certain extent…
La rinascita della guerra giusta
Il concetto di “guerra giusta” figura in una serie di riflessioni nel diritto internazionale e viene riferita all’uso legittimo della forza militare, così come è previsto nella Carta delle Nazioni Unite. Rinasce dalle sfide della storia contemporanea e possiamo coglierne i significati soltanto analizzando alcuni contesti storici nei quali ricorre e svelando, a partire da questi, le ragioni e i limiti della sua reviviscenza. Sebbene la guerra sia stata messa al bando dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, se escludiamo la guerra del Vietnam, non possiamo dimenticare orrori recenti per cui le forze occidentali sono dovute intervenire: massacri e pulizia etnica in Bosnia e Kosovo, Ruanda, Sudan, Sie…
Guerras terroristas
2001
Empire and Democracy. A critical reading of Michael Ignatieff
2013
Empires expand their hegemony combined two contrasting forces; one is violence the second is characterized by persuasion. Ideology works in these contexts, as an efficient instrument of self-indoctrination whereby dominated cultures accept the cultural matrix of empire. In this vein, the present essay-review not only questions the employment of human rights in the liberal thought, but also tries to respond to the conceptual problems of liberalism to understand terrorism. Based on two seminal texts written by the liberal Michael Ignatieff, we formulate the thesis that liberalism supports the war against terror because of its doctrine of self-determination.
Irak: una lectura dialógica
2006
The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948
2009
This article examines the way in which the Holocaust was linked to the process of the birth of Israel between 1947 and 1948 in the mainstream British, Swedish and Finnish press. By utilising a framework of comparative cultural history, this essay seeks to understand why different countries responded to the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War in such diverse ways. This essay also seeks to question the popular belief that the two events were intimately linked, and that the link was recognised in a straightforward manner. Hence, the study argues that although the press coverage sometimes managed to establish the connection between the two events, more typically the news was domes…