Archive for: international relations

Abstract: Review. According to Pasquale Ferrara the political form of the present is structurally inclined to terror. To make the idea, he deliberately uses an extreme word: deinocracy. The Author explains how the State security conditions put in place based on fear may generate what Ferrara calls a securitarian democracy. This is very different from the conditions leading to democratic safety, […]

Abstract: This text presents the inaugural lecture of the academic year 2012/2013 at the Sophia University Institute (delivered on 18 October 2012). The author seeks a possible description of the concept of “constitutive peace”. It emerges as an operative concept, as a description of possibility always subject to failure, as the construction of a context which permits the ongoing activity of […]