Filippo Dionigi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1192809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filippo Dionigi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filippo |
| FAMILY NAME | Dionigi |
| SIGNATURE | DIONIGI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8619-9177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forum
In this forum, scholars contribute to a critical reevaluation of ethics review processes arguing that the existing frameworks are inadequate for the dynamic and politically charged environments in which international relations as a discipline operates. We observe the institutionalized nature of ethics reviews and their inadequacy to address the methodological and epistemological approaches typical of IR. Drawing on experiences from diverse contex…
Displacement as Heterotopic Space
The idea of a sovereign territorial order dominates representations of space in International Relations through ubiquitous dichotomies such as international/domestic, inside/outside, and citizen/foreigner. Yet, phenomena of forced displacement question the perceptiveness of these binaries justifying an enquiry into the possibility of different accounts of the type of space that displacement constitutes. This essay revisits critically the Foucauld…
Hezbollah
Hezbollah: mobilisation and power Hezbollah: mobilisation and power. By Aurélie Daher. London: Hurst. 2019. 288pp. £17.00. Isbn: 978 1 84904 731 2. Available as e-book Filippo Dionigi Filippo Dionigi University of Bristol, UK Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 547–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa030 …
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
More than 250,000 Syrian refugees have relocated in the Kurdish Region of Iraq since 2011. The local response has been relatively receptive towards them. This study proposes an analysis of the concept of border and applies the idea of “border thinness” as an interpretative framework to examine the nature of transborder relations between the Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish areas. Relying on secondary sources, technical and elite level interviews with soc…
International Society and Islamist Non-State Actors
The Anarchical Society with its state-centric conceptualization of world politics may appear ill equipped to account for the increasing influence of non-state actors. However, despite this state-centrism, this chapter argues that Bull’s concept of international society constitutes a useful interpretative framework to account for the discourse and practice of such actors. The essay focuses on the organization Islamic State, which offers an example…
Statehood and Refugees
Scholarly debate has persuasively highlighted the inherent tension between refugees and the modern state. Yet, how do state-refugee relations unfold in practice when considering the historical and social specificity of a single state? Is there a heuristic value in going beyond the premises of a general state-refugee binary and adopt a state-specific approach? These questions are addressed through an analysis based on the modelling of statehood in…
Rethinking Borders
Borders and territoriality are key components of modern forms of statehood, yet their relevance appears to be challenged by interstate movements of peoples. This essay proposes a reconceptualization of borders as “thin borders” to develop an analytical framework of the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon going beyond a conventional understanding of Westphalian statehood. Looking at historical and contemporary events, the analysis highlights several …
Dag Hammarskjöld's Religiosity and Norms Entrepreneurship
In 1953, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly elected a low-key and relatively unknown personality as the second Secretary General of the UN. Dag Hammarskjöld, nonetheless, turned out to be one of the most entrepreneurial and innovative Secretary Generals that the UN has ever had. He invented peacekeeping, radically reformed the administrative structure of the UN, and promoted a crucial multi-lateral diplomatic role for the UN Secretariat. Be…
Counting Islam
Journal Article Counting Islam: religion, class, and elections in Egypt. By Tarek Masoud Get access Counting Islam: religion, class, and elections in Egypt. By Tarek Masoud. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 252pp. Index. Pb.: £20.00. ISBN 9780 52127 9116. Available as e-book. Filippo Dionigi Filippo Dionigi 1The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society
The Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the US invasion and occupation of Iraq have dramatically altered the geopolitical landscape of the contemporary Middle East. The Arab Spring uprisings have complicated this picture. This series puts forward a critical body of first-rate scholarship that reflects the current political and social realities of the region, focusing on original research about contentious politics and…
UN Security Council Resolutions as Factors of International Socialization
This paper shows how UN Security Council resolutions can facilitate the international socialization of an Islamist political actor. The study undertakes a process-tracing analysis of the negotiations and attempts to implement UNSC Resolutions 1559 and 1701 and then assesses their impact on Hezbollah's agency and political identity. The author argues that UNSC resolutions can inform processes of social influence that directly affect the activity o…
How do religious norms diffuse? Institutional translation and international change in a post-secular world society
This article draws from Habermasian post-secular theory to broaden the scope of Constructivist research on norm dynamics beyond its current Western-centric focus. In an increasingly post-secular world society, we conceptualize the mechanism of institutional translation to explain processes of norm diffusion whereby culturally situated 'thick' norms acquire a 'thinner' ethical status via a dialogical process of normative contestation across divers…
Islamism as Communitarianism
This essay discusses how international political theory can become more receptive towards Islamism. The central claim is that Islamism can be interpreted as a form of communitarianism. To underpin this claim, the study relies on an analysis of how the concepts of community and person are conceived in communitarianism and Islamism. On the basis of the affinities of these conceptions between Islamism and communitarianism the essay shows that Islami…
How do religious norms diffuse? Institutional translation and international change in a post-secular world society
This article draws from Habermasian post-secular theory to broaden the scope of Constructivist research on norm dynamics beyond its current Western-centric focus. In an increasingly post-secular world society, we conceptualize the mechanism of institutional translation to explain processes of norm diffusion whereby culturally situated 'thick' norms acquire a 'thinner' ethical status via a dialogical process of normative contestation across divers…
Rethinking Borders
Borders and territoriality are key components of modern forms of statehood, yet their relevance appears to be challenged by interstate movements of peoples. This essay proposes a reconceptualization of borders as “thin borders” to develop an analytical framework of the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon going beyond a conventional understanding of Westphalian statehood. Looking at historical and contemporary events, the analysis highlights several …
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
More than 250,000 Syrian refugees have relocated in the Kurdish Region of Iraq since 2011. The local response has been relatively receptive towards them. This study proposes an analysis of the concept of border and applies the idea of “border thinness” as an interpretative framework to examine the nature of transborder relations between the Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish areas. Relying on secondary sources, technical and elite level interviews with soc…
Statehood and Refugees
Scholarly debate has persuasively highlighted the inherent tension between refugees and the modern state. Yet, how do state-refugee relations unfold in practice when considering the historical and social specificity of a single state? Is there a heuristic value in going beyond the premises of a general state-refugee binary and adopt a state-specific approach? These questions are addressed through an analysis based on the modelling of statehood in…
Hezbollah
Hezbollah: mobilisation and power Hezbollah: mobilisation and power. By Aurélie Daher. London: Hurst. 2019. 288pp. £17.00. Isbn: 978 1 84904 731 2. Available as e-book Filippo Dionigi Filippo Dionigi University of Bristol, UK Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 547–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa030 …
Displacement as Heterotopic Space
The idea of a sovereign territorial order dominates representations of space in International Relations through ubiquitous dichotomies such as international/domestic, inside/outside, and citizen/foreigner. Yet, phenomena of forced displacement question the perceptiveness of these binaries justifying an enquiry into the possibility of different accounts of the type of space that displacement constitutes. This essay revisits critically the Foucauld…
Dag Hammarskjöld's Religiosity and Norms Entrepreneurship
In 1953, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly elected a low-key and relatively unknown personality as the second Secretary General of the UN. Dag Hammarskjöld, nonetheless, turned out to be one of the most entrepreneurial and innovative Secretary Generals that the UN has ever had. He invented peacekeeping, radically reformed the administrative structure of the UN, and promoted a crucial multi-lateral diplomatic role for the UN Secretariat. Be…
UN Security Council Resolutions as Factors of International Socialization
This paper shows how UN Security Council resolutions can facilitate the international socialization of an Islamist political actor. The study undertakes a process-tracing analysis of the negotiations and attempts to implement UNSC Resolutions 1559 and 1701 and then assesses their impact on Hezbollah's agency and political identity. The author argues that UNSC resolutions can inform processes of social influence that directly affect the activity o…
Islamism as Communitarianism
This essay discusses how international political theory can become more receptive towards Islamism. The central claim is that Islamism can be interpreted as a form of communitarianism. To underpin this claim, the study relies on an analysis of how the concepts of community and person are conceived in communitarianism and Islamism. On the basis of the affinities of these conceptions between Islamism and communitarianism the essay shows that Islami…
Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society
The Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the US invasion and occupation of Iraq have dramatically altered the geopolitical landscape of the contemporary Middle East. The Arab Spring uprisings have complicated this picture. This series puts forward a critical body of first-rate scholarship that reflects the current political and social realities of the region, focusing on original research about contentious politics and…
UN Security Council Resolutions as Factors of International Socialization
This paper shows how UN Security Council resolutions can facilitate the international socialization of an Islamist political actor. The study undertakes a process-tracing analysis of the negotiations and attempts to implement UNSC Resolutions 1559 and 1701 and then assesses their impact on Hezbollah's agency and political identity. The author argues that UNSC resolutions can inform processes of social influence that directly affect the activity o…
How do religious norms diffuse? Institutional translation and international change in a post-secular world society
This article draws from Habermasian post-secular theory to broaden the scope of Constructivist research on norm dynamics beyond its current Western-centric focus. In an increasingly post-secular world society, we conceptualize the mechanism of institutional translation to explain processes of norm diffusion whereby culturally situated 'thick' norms acquire a 'thinner' ethical status via a dialogical process of normative contestation across divers…
Counting Islam
Journal Article Counting Islam: religion, class, and elections in Egypt. By Tarek Masoud Get access Counting Islam: religion, class, and elections in Egypt. By Tarek Masoud. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 252pp. Index. Pb.: £20.00. ISBN 9780 52127 9116. Available as e-book. Filippo Dionigi Filippo Dionigi 1The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Dag Hammarskjöld's Religiosity and Norms Entrepreneurship
In 1953, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly elected a low-key and relatively unknown personality as the second Secretary General of the UN. Dag Hammarskjöld, nonetheless, turned out to be one of the most entrepreneurial and innovative Secretary Generals that the UN has ever had. He invented peacekeeping, radically reformed the administrative structure of the UN, and promoted a crucial multi-lateral diplomatic role for the UN Secretariat. Be…
International Society and Islamist Non-State Actors
The Anarchical Society with its state-centric conceptualization of world politics may appear ill equipped to account for the increasing influence of non-state actors. However, despite this state-centrism, this chapter argues that Bull’s concept of international society constitutes a useful interpretative framework to account for the discourse and practice of such actors. The essay focuses on the organization Islamic State, which offers an example…
Statehood and Refugees
Scholarly debate has persuasively highlighted the inherent tension between refugees and the modern state. Yet, how do state-refugee relations unfold in practice when considering the historical and social specificity of a single state? Is there a heuristic value in going beyond the premises of a general state-refugee binary and adopt a state-specific approach? These questions are addressed through an analysis based on the modelling of statehood in…
Rethinking Borders
Borders and territoriality are key components of modern forms of statehood, yet their relevance appears to be challenged by interstate movements of peoples. This essay proposes a reconceptualization of borders as “thin borders” to develop an analytical framework of the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon going beyond a conventional understanding of Westphalian statehood. Looking at historical and contemporary events, the analysis highlights several …
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
More than 250,000 Syrian refugees have relocated in the Kurdish Region of Iraq since 2011. The local response has been relatively receptive towards them. This study proposes an analysis of the concept of border and applies the idea of “border thinness” as an interpretative framework to examine the nature of transborder relations between the Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish areas. Relying on secondary sources, technical and elite level interviews with soc…
Hezbollah
Hezbollah: mobilisation and power Hezbollah: mobilisation and power. By Aurélie Daher. London: Hurst. 2019. 288pp. £17.00. Isbn: 978 1 84904 731 2. Available as e-book Filippo Dionigi Filippo Dionigi University of Bristol, UK Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 547–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa030 …
Displacement as Heterotopic Space
The idea of a sovereign territorial order dominates representations of space in International Relations through ubiquitous dichotomies such as international/domestic, inside/outside, and citizen/foreigner. Yet, phenomena of forced displacement question the perceptiveness of these binaries justifying an enquiry into the possibility of different accounts of the type of space that displacement constitutes. This essay revisits critically the Foucauld…
Forum
In this forum, scholars contribute to a critical reevaluation of ethics review processes arguing that the existing frameworks are inadequate for the dynamic and politically charged environments in which international relations as a discipline operates. We observe the institutionalized nature of ethics reviews and their inadequacy to address the methodological and epistemological approaches typical of IR. Drawing on experiences from diverse contex…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 works)