Issue 13 | 2021
PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENT EXTREMISM Barbara Lucini, QAnon: risk assessment sociologico di un fenomeno estremista AbstractThis article aims to propose a sociological reflection of risk assessment represented by the QAnon phenomenon. The complexity of QAnon, its communication mechanisms, the relational and organizational peculiarities deserve to be deepened, considering the social categories and cultural aspects that intervene […]
Issue 12 | 2020
I. COVID-19 and Communication Crisis Management Marco Lombardi, Communication Crisis: COVID-19. Nothing since Chernobyl AbstractThe pandemic from COVID-19 generated a health emergency and at the same time a communicative crisis. In fact, many of the fundamental aspects of crisis communication and crisis management have not been considered and implemented. In particular, this reflection aims to […]
Issue 10 | 2019
I. PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION Marco Lombardi, Culture and Action: Cultural Diplomacy and Cooperation Abstract The new, uncertain structures of the reticular global world call for innovative strategies. In particular, the new forms of diffuse conflict demand that international diplomacy give effective answers in terms of handling the crisis and […]
Issue 9 | 2019
I. International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy Marco Lombardi e Barbara Lucini, Cooperazione e Cultural Diplomacy: resilienza e cultural focal points. Abstract The current paper focuses on the need to think over the concept of globalization and its impact on the scenario of international cooperation. The definition of globalization has been often related to other […]
Issue 8 | 2018
I. Perspectives on terrorism Tiziano Li Piani, Progettazione strutturale e funzione sociale dello spazio (quale) vulnerabilità e soluzione al terrorismo urbano. Perché serve e come è possibile proteggere l’edificio dall’uomo (oltre che dal terremoto) Abstract This article presents the knowledge gaps and the methodological steps inherent the process of standardization of the terrorist threat in urban environments within […]
Issue 7 | 2018
ESSAYS Nicolò Spagna, Understanding the Command and Control (C2) through the Social Network Analysis: the case studies of Paris-Brussels terrorist attacks Abstract Il terrorismo di oggi è frammentato e globalizzato e successivamente all’avvento dell’autoproclamato Stato Islamico (ISIS) è divenuto multipolare, estremamente dinamico ed in costante cambiamento. All’interno di questo quadro bellico la cosiddetta Information Warfare […]
Issue 6 | 2017
ESSAYS Barbara Lucini, Critica della radicalizzazione pura. Forme ibride di radicalizzazione estremista This paper focuses on the analysis of the concepts and forms of radicalisation which lead peo¬ple to join or adhere to a specific extremist group. The analysis has been carried out according to a secondary data analysis, providing interesting insights on the way […]
Issue 5 | 2017
ANALYSES AND COMMENTARIES Diego Bolchini, Terrorismo: quale modellazione del rischio? Alcune riflessioni preliminari Il testo prende spunto da una pubblicazione realizzata nel 2015 dal CoE-DAT (Center of Excellence- Defence Against Terrorism) della NATO, riguardante possibili profili di modellazione del rischio terroristico nello scenario contemporaneo. All’analisi testuale del Paper vengono associate alcune riflessioni, originanti dalla corrente letteratura […]
Issue 4 | 2016
RESEARCH ARTICLES Alessandro Boncio, Italian Foreign Terrorist Fighters: a quantitative analysis of radicalization risk factors The Italian jihadist scene with its fluid profile and features has been analyzed in different occa-sions by academics and experts. Their publications however, were conducted with a qualitative approach and, apart from some real cases description and analysis, there is a vacuum […]
Issue 3 | 2016
RESEARCH ARTICLES Giorgia Gentili, The debate around the evolution of Boko Haram’s connections to al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb One of the characteristics of Saharan-Sahelian jihadism is its factionalism and the groups operating in the region establish frequently shifting relations of cooperation or competition making it difficult to understand alignments, alliances and rivalries. This paper tries to […]
