Francesco Tamburini
Biographic Data
| ID | 139747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Tamburini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamburini |
| SIGNATURE | TAMBURINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pisa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1733-941X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Freezing colonial borders
This article revisits the Agacher Strip dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso to illuminate the enduring modernity of colonial borders in Africa. By analyzing the 1986 judgment of the International Court of Justice, it argues that the case transformed uti possidetis juris into a foundational doctrine of postcolonial statehood, effectively “freezing” colonial administrative lines into sovereign frontiers. Far from a technical boundary ruling, Agac…
The Algerian Muǧāhidīn System
This article analyzes the institutionalization process of the muǧāhidīn in Algeria and their role as a central socio-political group legitimizing state power from the end of the war of independence to the present day. The methodological approach is historical-institutional, combining analysis of legislative sources, executive decrees, constitutional statutes, ministerial acts, and official documents with secondary literature. The author reconstru…
The Myth of the African Balkanization
One of the biggest challenges to Pan-Africanism was the terrible risk of Balkanization, which is the process of breaking apart a territory or state unit into smaller regions and nations, potentially leading to political instability and violence. Balkanization never happened, and Africa never experienced the instability that separatist movements would cause. Very few were the cases of secession. This essay aims to challenge the conventional readin…
The History of the Algerian Islamic High Council
In Algeria, Islam has often been used to strengthen the sense of national identity and as an instrument of self-legitimation. The Algerian state gradually bureaucratized Islam through different organisms, represented by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and other institutions, such as the Islamic High Council. This constitutional institution can be considered the core tool used by the state to defend an Islam that is near and faithful to the valu…
The Bureaucratization of Islam in Algeria
Since its independence in 1962, Algeria used Islam to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimization. The Algerian political elite not only legitimized governments in the shadow of Islam, but institutionalized it through different organisms, represented by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf), the Islamic High Council, and more recent institutions, such as those gravitating around the Great Mosqu…
The Politics of State Mergers in the Qaddafi's Foreign Policy
Qaddafi's unpredictable foreign policy always attracted attention from academics and politicians. However, very few works were devoted to examine an important part of the Libyan leader's diplomacy: The staunch and fervent Arab nationalism directed to promote the creation of state unions with neighboring (and sometimes even far) countries in the perspective of pan-Arabism. Adventurism, limitless ambitions, and irrational projects also hid a pragma…
The 'Authentic Islam' on the Internet
The governments of the Maghreb states appropriated and subordinated Islam after gaining independence, utilizing religion to strengthen national identity, unity, and establish political power. The goal of governmental control over religious doctrine was to stop 'heterodox' Muslim beliefs and behaviors from deviating from the officially sanctioned conceptual framework of a national Islam. This study will employ a comparative methodology to examine …
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Autocracy
The president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, recurred to Article 80 of the constitution on 25 July 2021 to proclaim the 'state of exception,' freezing parliamentary activities, removing the representatives' immunity, and dissolving the government headed by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi. The following presidential decree 2021-117 on 22 September granted him legislative powers by decree, dismantling the constitution of 2014, which was the cornerstone of …
The Ghost of the Constitutional Review in Tunisia
The existence of a constitutional control is the essential cornerstone in any democratic system. Without a constitutional justice it is impossible to maintain a pluralist democracy with a real rule of law. The Tunisian constitutional history is emblematic of the relevance of the constitutional review. This article outlines the difficult and hampered life of the Tunisian constitutional justice that crossed two authoritarian regimes: a “revolution”…
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
Contemporary Algeria was born after 132 years of colonization and a bloody decolonization war that lasted almost eight years. The official version and the dominant historical narrative of the war of independence has been influencing the state-owned media, the process of memorialization and the education system for years. This article will focus on how history was manipulated and used to legitimate political power using ordinary legislation as wel…
The Covid-19 Outbreak in North Africa
North African nations, especially Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, have been heavily affected by COVID-19 if compared to other African countries. Governments in North Africa took proactive legal measures to manage the virus threat, safeguarding population health, but also triggering repressive and invasive mechanisms that in some cases jeopardized basic freedoms and rights. This work will analyze comparatively the anti-COVID-19 legislations, pointing…
The State of Emergency and Exception in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
This paper shows how the constitutional provisions related to the state of emergency and exception, although they are contained within democratic traditions, were set to operate in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as a mechanism of basic control and maintenance of liberal autocracies. The state of emergency model was used for the survival of regimes in times of instability and social unrest, leading in some cases to the suspension of human rights for…
The 'Islam of the Government
Islam, in its relation between state and politics, has often been used to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimation by Arab regimes to gain the support of the people. This happened in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, where the state not only co-opted religion for official purposes but absorbed the ' ulamā', the religious establishment, in the administration as simple employees of newly created institutio…
The Role and Development of the Ombudsman System in the Maghreb A 'Measure' of Democracy
The institution of the Ombudsman is aimed at defending values such as human rights and the respect for the rule of law against any form of abuse or arbitrariness. Many academic studies have been devoted to the Ombudsman in its different developments around the world, but not to the Maghreb area. This article wants to shed light on the characteristics of the Ombudsman in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. The comparative exam of the differe…
Anti-Terrorism Laws in the Maghreb Countries
This article sheds light on the counter-terrorism measures enacted by the Maghreb countries, with a comparative approach of the laws in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Carried out by comparing the Arabic and French original versions, the analysis revealed a common attitude that tended to preserve national security at the expenses of civil freedoms and human rights. In almost all cases, anti-terrorism laws strayed away from their suppos…
"Historia Y Destino De La "Doctrina Calvo
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
La cuestión Cerruti y la crisis diplomática entre Colombia e Italia (1885-1911)
En febrero de 1885, el Estado federal colombiano del Cauca, durante la guerra civil entre el insurgido partido liberal y el conservador, las propiedades del ciudadano italiano Ernesto Cerruti fueron destruidas y secuestradas con la acusación de cooperación con las fuerzas liberales. Las medidas de las autoridades caucanas y la consiguiente reclamación de Cerruti por la indemnización fueron la causa de los veintiseis años de crisis diplomática ent…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Autocracy
The president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, recurred to Article 80 of the constitution on 25 July 2021 to proclaim the 'state of exception,' freezing parliamentary activities, removing the representatives' immunity, and dissolving the government headed by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi. The following presidential decree 2021-117 on 22 September granted him legislative powers by decree, dismantling the constitution of 2014, which was the cornerstone of …
Anti-Terrorism Laws in the Maghreb Countries
This article sheds light on the counter-terrorism measures enacted by the Maghreb countries, with a comparative approach of the laws in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Carried out by comparing the Arabic and French original versions, the analysis revealed a common attitude that tended to preserve national security at the expenses of civil freedoms and human rights. In almost all cases, anti-terrorism laws strayed away from their suppos…
The Covid-19 Outbreak in North Africa
North African nations, especially Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, have been heavily affected by COVID-19 if compared to other African countries. Governments in North Africa took proactive legal measures to manage the virus threat, safeguarding population health, but also triggering repressive and invasive mechanisms that in some cases jeopardized basic freedoms and rights. This work will analyze comparatively the anti-COVID-19 legislations, pointing…
The 'Islam of the Government
Islam, in its relation between state and politics, has often been used to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimation by Arab regimes to gain the support of the people. This happened in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, where the state not only co-opted religion for official purposes but absorbed the ' ulamā', the religious establishment, in the administration as simple employees of newly created institutio…
The Algerian Muǧāhidīn System
This article analyzes the institutionalization process of the muǧāhidīn in Algeria and their role as a central socio-political group legitimizing state power from the end of the war of independence to the present day. The methodological approach is historical-institutional, combining analysis of legislative sources, executive decrees, constitutional statutes, ministerial acts, and official documents with secondary literature. The author reconstru…
The Bureaucratization of Islam in Algeria
Since its independence in 1962, Algeria used Islam to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimization. The Algerian political elite not only legitimized governments in the shadow of Islam, but institutionalized it through different organisms, represented by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf), the Islamic High Council, and more recent institutions, such as those gravitating around the Great Mosqu…
The Politics of State Mergers in the Qaddafi's Foreign Policy
Qaddafi's unpredictable foreign policy always attracted attention from academics and politicians. However, very few works were devoted to examine an important part of the Libyan leader's diplomacy: The staunch and fervent Arab nationalism directed to promote the creation of state unions with neighboring (and sometimes even far) countries in the perspective of pan-Arabism. Adventurism, limitless ambitions, and irrational projects also hid a pragma…
The 'Authentic Islam' on the Internet
The governments of the Maghreb states appropriated and subordinated Islam after gaining independence, utilizing religion to strengthen national identity, unity, and establish political power. The goal of governmental control over religious doctrine was to stop 'heterodox' Muslim beliefs and behaviors from deviating from the officially sanctioned conceptual framework of a national Islam. This study will employ a comparative methodology to examine …
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
Contemporary Algeria was born after 132 years of colonization and a bloody decolonization war that lasted almost eight years. The official version and the dominant historical narrative of the war of independence has been influencing the state-owned media, the process of memorialization and the education system for years. This article will focus on how history was manipulated and used to legitimate political power using ordinary legislation as wel…
"Historia Y Destino De La "Doctrina Calvo
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
La cuestión Cerruti y la crisis diplomática entre Colombia e Italia (1885-1911)
En febrero de 1885, el Estado federal colombiano del Cauca, durante la guerra civil entre el insurgido partido liberal y el conservador, las propiedades del ciudadano italiano Ernesto Cerruti fueron destruidas y secuestradas con la acusación de cooperación con las fuerzas liberales. Las medidas de las autoridades caucanas y la consiguiente reclamación de Cerruti por la indemnización fueron la causa de los veintiseis años de crisis diplomática ent…
"Historia Y Destino De La "Doctrina Calvo
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Anti-Terrorism Laws in the Maghreb Countries
This article sheds light on the counter-terrorism measures enacted by the Maghreb countries, with a comparative approach of the laws in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Carried out by comparing the Arabic and French original versions, the analysis revealed a common attitude that tended to preserve national security at the expenses of civil freedoms and human rights. In almost all cases, anti-terrorism laws strayed away from their suppos…
The Role and Development of the Ombudsman System in the Maghreb A 'Measure' of Democracy
The institution of the Ombudsman is aimed at defending values such as human rights and the respect for the rule of law against any form of abuse or arbitrariness. Many academic studies have been devoted to the Ombudsman in its different developments around the world, but not to the Maghreb area. This article wants to shed light on the characteristics of the Ombudsman in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. The comparative exam of the differe…
The 'Islam of the Government
Islam, in its relation between state and politics, has often been used to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimation by Arab regimes to gain the support of the people. This happened in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, where the state not only co-opted religion for official purposes but absorbed the ' ulamā', the religious establishment, in the administration as simple employees of newly created institutio…
The Covid-19 Outbreak in North Africa
North African nations, especially Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, have been heavily affected by COVID-19 if compared to other African countries. Governments in North Africa took proactive legal measures to manage the virus threat, safeguarding population health, but also triggering repressive and invasive mechanisms that in some cases jeopardized basic freedoms and rights. This work will analyze comparatively the anti-COVID-19 legislations, pointing…
The State of Emergency and Exception in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
This paper shows how the constitutional provisions related to the state of emergency and exception, although they are contained within democratic traditions, were set to operate in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as a mechanism of basic control and maintenance of liberal autocracies. The state of emergency model was used for the survival of regimes in times of instability and social unrest, leading in some cases to the suspension of human rights for…
The Ghost of the Constitutional Review in Tunisia
The existence of a constitutional control is the essential cornerstone in any democratic system. Without a constitutional justice it is impossible to maintain a pluralist democracy with a real rule of law. The Tunisian constitutional history is emblematic of the relevance of the constitutional review. This article outlines the difficult and hampered life of the Tunisian constitutional justice that crossed two authoritarian regimes: a “revolution”…
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
Contemporary Algeria was born after 132 years of colonization and a bloody decolonization war that lasted almost eight years. The official version and the dominant historical narrative of the war of independence has been influencing the state-owned media, the process of memorialization and the education system for years. This article will focus on how history was manipulated and used to legitimate political power using ordinary legislation as wel…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Autocracy
The president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, recurred to Article 80 of the constitution on 25 July 2021 to proclaim the 'state of exception,' freezing parliamentary activities, removing the representatives' immunity, and dissolving the government headed by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi. The following presidential decree 2021-117 on 22 September granted him legislative powers by decree, dismantling the constitution of 2014, which was the cornerstone of …
The 'Authentic Islam' on the Internet
The governments of the Maghreb states appropriated and subordinated Islam after gaining independence, utilizing religion to strengthen national identity, unity, and establish political power. The goal of governmental control over religious doctrine was to stop 'heterodox' Muslim beliefs and behaviors from deviating from the officially sanctioned conceptual framework of a national Islam. This study will employ a comparative methodology to examine …
The Algerian Muǧāhidīn System
This article analyzes the institutionalization process of the muǧāhidīn in Algeria and their role as a central socio-political group legitimizing state power from the end of the war of independence to the present day. The methodological approach is historical-institutional, combining analysis of legislative sources, executive decrees, constitutional statutes, ministerial acts, and official documents with secondary literature. The author reconstru…
The Myth of the African Balkanization
One of the biggest challenges to Pan-Africanism was the terrible risk of Balkanization, which is the process of breaking apart a territory or state unit into smaller regions and nations, potentially leading to political instability and violence. Balkanization never happened, and Africa never experienced the instability that separatist movements would cause. Very few were the cases of secession. This essay aims to challenge the conventional readin…
The History of the Algerian Islamic High Council
In Algeria, Islam has often been used to strengthen the sense of national identity and as an instrument of self-legitimation. The Algerian state gradually bureaucratized Islam through different organisms, represented by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and other institutions, such as the Islamic High Council. This constitutional institution can be considered the core tool used by the state to defend an Islam that is near and faithful to the valu…
The Bureaucratization of Islam in Algeria
Since its independence in 1962, Algeria used Islam to strengthen the sense of national identity or as a tool of self-legitimization. The Algerian political elite not only legitimized governments in the shadow of Islam, but institutionalized it through different organisms, represented by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf), the Islamic High Council, and more recent institutions, such as those gravitating around the Great Mosqu…
The Politics of State Mergers in the Qaddafi's Foreign Policy
Qaddafi's unpredictable foreign policy always attracted attention from academics and politicians. However, very few works were devoted to examine an important part of the Libyan leader's diplomacy: The staunch and fervent Arab nationalism directed to promote the creation of state unions with neighboring (and sometimes even far) countries in the perspective of pan-Arabism. Adventurism, limitless ambitions, and irrational projects also hid a pragma…
Freezing colonial borders
This article revisits the Agacher Strip dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso to illuminate the enduring modernity of colonial borders in Africa. By analyzing the 1986 judgment of the International Court of Justice, it argues that the case transformed uti possidetis juris into a foundational doctrine of postcolonial statehood, effectively “freezing” colonial administrative lines into sovereign frontiers. Far from a technical boundary ruling, Agac…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · State (computer science (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (6 works) · North African History and Literature (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)