Francesco Strazzari
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 829027 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francesco Strazzari |
| NOMBRES | Francesco |
| APELLIDO | Strazzari |
| FIRMA | STRAZZARI F |
| AFILIACIONES | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4043-1388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Borders Ending Nowhere
Russia has been involved in Africa since Tsarist times, but its involvement has ebbed and flowed. Nonetheless, the idea of Africa as an open political landscape in which Russia could act as a great power has been relatively persistent, often in connection with the domestic resurfacing of civilisational discourses on Russian exceptionalism. Recently, there has been much concern in the West about the expansion of Russian projection in Africa, with …
The data that we do (not) have
An increasing amount of reports highlights the growing salience of drug trafficking in Africa. Yet the evidence-base for this claim remains problematic. Stemming from a critical approach to social sciences’ epistemology, the paper explores how drug trafficking data are framed, produced and shared. Building on an extensive literature review and key interviews, it provides an in-depth analysis of both the main open source drug trafficking metrics (…
Strategic misalignment
A key security partner of the region for more than a decade, the European Union today faces growing challenges and the potential failure of its policy towards the Sahel.While the cycle of violence does not appear to be receding, rivals such as Russia -but also Western allies such as Turkey or the Gulf statesare building new partnerships in the region.Contesting the idea that exogenous factors alone explain strategic shortcomings, we explore inste…
Grasping Local Participation
This article focuses on those “points of fracture” (Kirby and Shepherd 2020, 12) that have manifested in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Mediterranean region by examining National Action Plans (NAPs) in two distinct sub-regions – the Western Balkans and North Africa. We develop a comparative framework to shed light on the dimension of participation of these plans in four countries where the debate on WPS ha…
Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger
What is the impact of smuggling on political ordering and stability in fragile states? We investigate how transnational drug smuggling networks affect protection and extraction dynamics, and drive divergent political stability trajectories in fragile countries that otherwise exhibit structural similiarities – i.e. Mali and Niger. Building on ethnographic evidence, we explore the hypothesis that distinctive peace- and state-building strategies res…
Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel
Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, food insecurity, population displacement, transnational crime, contested statehood and jihadist insurgencies. This Special Issue discerns the contours of political orders in the making. After situating the Sahel region in time…
Governance Beyond the Law
Government policy and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and African arenas
As in previous years, so too in 2018 the migration question dominated the Italian political debate. The new ruling coalition announced a policy change based on the intransigent protection of maritime borders. Against the background of a decline in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores, the year saw the imposition of increasingly tight restrictions on the activities of the NGOs involved in search-and-rescue operations along the central Me…
(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region
This contribution analyses EU approach to stabilisation. Looking at the cases of Libya and Mali, the focus on emerging communities of stabilisation practices helps illustrate how EU investments in sector-specific capacity building are geared to the enhancement of sovereign prerogatives in neighbouring states that are experiencing domestic political challenges. Aiming to achieve a semblance of stability in remote borderlands, though, the outsourci…
Securitisation of research
Knowledge on conflict-affected areas is becoming increasingly important for scholarship and policy. This article identifies a recent change in knowledge production regarding 'zones of danger', attributing it not only to the external environment, but also to an on-going process of securitisation of research resulting from institutional and disciplinary practices. Research is increasingly framed by security concerns and is becoming a security conce…
State, Secession, and Jihad
This article explores the nexus between conflicting geopolitical imaginaries and socioeconomic tensions in northern Mali, examining microlevel processes whereby extralegal and criminal economies have reshaped political and armed mobilization, especially among Tuareg who fought to draw the borders of an independent Azawad and jihadists affiliated with the MUJAO Islamist group who sought to abolish all borders. Secessionist, jihadist, and statist p…
Introduction
In framing its analysis around the concept of northwest Africa, this article examines not only the challenges for regional security and state authority in that region but also the processes through which regions are constructed by both local and international actors. It focuses especially on northern Mali and the various types of separatist, jihadist, and criminal networks that operate in this territory. The goal of this article, and of the speci…
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
Libyan Arms and Regional Instability
As security continues to be a primary challenge in post-Qadhafi Libya, the availability of weapons to nearby opposition groups and armed insurgencies is a source of major concern for Libya’s neighbours and the international community. Uncontrolled weapons proliferation and the rise of new armed groups have gone hand in hand across various conflict fronts. While what is known about weapons acquisition dynamics does not make it possible to establis…
Hybrid Economies and Statebuilding
How do informal and criminal economies transform over time, and what are the roles of armed conflict and “postconflict” intervention in this process? Based on four cases of contemporary statebuilding, this article explores the persistence and pervasiveness of extralegal economies in the face of intrusive international intervention and reflects on the implications for state formation. It observes that acting beyond the law is no prerogative of unm…
The Informal and the Criminal
Another Nakba
Violent clashes of June 2007 saw Hamas ousting Fatah from the Gaza Strip, thereby making patent the existence of a deep politico-military split within the Palestinian national movement. This article sheds light on the present face of the conflict in the Palestinian territories by adopting a historical-analytical perspective that emphasizes the role played by the availability of small arms and light weapons, as one of the\nmany structural factors …
Trans-Albanian vs. Pan-Albanian Spaces
This paper focuses on nationalism along Albanian-speaking European peripheries. Waves of organized violence, political turmoil, and powerful processes of demographic and socioeconomic transformation have changed the face of Albanian cities, thus modifying the physical and social landscape. The exploration of these dynamics aims to shed light on how the nexus that historically exists between the construction of an urban stronghold, the articulatio…
L'Oeuvre au Noir
The article analyses the nexus between illicit economy, violent conflict and peacetime politics in Kosovo. It examines political agendas, client interests and transnational criminal activities, taking into account the interaction between local and international actors involved in peacebuilding. While making sense of emerging trends and regularities, the analysis identifies dilemmas and challenges that counter-crime strategies have to address in K…
The Decade Horribilis
The 10-year-long cycle of war that swept the Balkan peripheries saw the soldering of nationalist agendas, local clientelistic interests, and transnational illicit activities. This investigation seeks to shed light on the nexus that exists between this collusive admixture and the process of violent geopolitical rearticulation. Using mainly investigative journalism and specialized research, the author explores underground political economies, mappi…
State, Secession, and Jihad
This article explores the nexus between conflicting geopolitical imaginaries and socioeconomic tensions in northern Mali, examining microlevel processes whereby extralegal and criminal economies have reshaped political and armed mobilization, especially among Tuareg who fought to draw the borders of an independent Azawad and jihadists affiliated with the MUJAO Islamist group who sought to abolish all borders. Secessionist, jihadist, and statist p…
Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel
Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, food insecurity, population displacement, transnational crime, contested statehood and jihadist insurgencies. This Special Issue discerns the contours of political orders in the making. After situating the Sahel region in time…
Securitisation of research
Knowledge on conflict-affected areas is becoming increasingly important for scholarship and policy. This article identifies a recent change in knowledge production regarding 'zones of danger', attributing it not only to the external environment, but also to an on-going process of securitisation of research resulting from institutional and disciplinary practices. Research is increasingly framed by security concerns and is becoming a security conce…
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region
This contribution analyses EU approach to stabilisation. Looking at the cases of Libya and Mali, the focus on emerging communities of stabilisation practices helps illustrate how EU investments in sector-specific capacity building are geared to the enhancement of sovereign prerogatives in neighbouring states that are experiencing domestic political challenges. Aiming to achieve a semblance of stability in remote borderlands, though, the outsourci…
Introduction
In framing its analysis around the concept of northwest Africa, this article examines not only the challenges for regional security and state authority in that region but also the processes through which regions are constructed by both local and international actors. It focuses especially on northern Mali and the various types of separatist, jihadist, and criminal networks that operate in this territory. The goal of this article, and of the speci…
Hybrid Economies and Statebuilding
How do informal and criminal economies transform over time, and what are the roles of armed conflict and “postconflict” intervention in this process? Based on four cases of contemporary statebuilding, this article explores the persistence and pervasiveness of extralegal economies in the face of intrusive international intervention and reflects on the implications for state formation. It observes that acting beyond the law is no prerogative of unm…
L'Oeuvre au Noir
The article analyses the nexus between illicit economy, violent conflict and peacetime politics in Kosovo. It examines political agendas, client interests and transnational criminal activities, taking into account the interaction between local and international actors involved in peacebuilding. While making sense of emerging trends and regularities, the analysis identifies dilemmas and challenges that counter-crime strategies have to address in K…
Libyan Arms and Regional Instability
As security continues to be a primary challenge in post-Qadhafi Libya, the availability of weapons to nearby opposition groups and armed insurgencies is a source of major concern for Libya’s neighbours and the international community. Uncontrolled weapons proliferation and the rise of new armed groups have gone hand in hand across various conflict fronts. While what is known about weapons acquisition dynamics does not make it possible to establis…
Government policy and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and African arenas
As in previous years, so too in 2018 the migration question dominated the Italian political debate. The new ruling coalition announced a policy change based on the intransigent protection of maritime borders. Against the background of a decline in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores, the year saw the imposition of increasingly tight restrictions on the activities of the NGOs involved in search-and-rescue operations along the central Me…
The Decade Horribilis
The 10-year-long cycle of war that swept the Balkan peripheries saw the soldering of nationalist agendas, local clientelistic interests, and transnational illicit activities. This investigation seeks to shed light on the nexus that exists between this collusive admixture and the process of violent geopolitical rearticulation. Using mainly investigative journalism and specialized research, the author explores underground political economies, mappi…
Strategic misalignment
A key security partner of the region for more than a decade, the European Union today faces growing challenges and the potential failure of its policy towards the Sahel.While the cycle of violence does not appear to be receding, rivals such as Russia -but also Western allies such as Turkey or the Gulf statesare building new partnerships in the region.Contesting the idea that exogenous factors alone explain strategic shortcomings, we explore inste…
Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger
What is the impact of smuggling on political ordering and stability in fragile states? We investigate how transnational drug smuggling networks affect protection and extraction dynamics, and drive divergent political stability trajectories in fragile countries that otherwise exhibit structural similiarities – i.e. Mali and Niger. Building on ethnographic evidence, we explore the hypothesis that distinctive peace- and state-building strategies res…
Grasping Local Participation
This article focuses on those “points of fracture” (Kirby and Shepherd 2020, 12) that have manifested in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Mediterranean region by examining National Action Plans (NAPs) in two distinct sub-regions – the Western Balkans and North Africa. We develop a comparative framework to shed light on the dimension of participation of these plans in four countries where the debate on WPS ha…
The Decade Horribilis
The 10-year-long cycle of war that swept the Balkan peripheries saw the soldering of nationalist agendas, local clientelistic interests, and transnational illicit activities. This investigation seeks to shed light on the nexus that exists between this collusive admixture and the process of violent geopolitical rearticulation. Using mainly investigative journalism and specialized research, the author explores underground political economies, mappi…
L'Oeuvre au Noir
The article analyses the nexus between illicit economy, violent conflict and peacetime politics in Kosovo. It examines political agendas, client interests and transnational criminal activities, taking into account the interaction between local and international actors involved in peacebuilding. While making sense of emerging trends and regularities, the analysis identifies dilemmas and challenges that counter-crime strategies have to address in K…
Trans-Albanian vs. Pan-Albanian Spaces
This paper focuses on nationalism along Albanian-speaking European peripheries. Waves of organized violence, political turmoil, and powerful processes of demographic and socioeconomic transformation have changed the face of Albanian cities, thus modifying the physical and social landscape. The exploration of these dynamics aims to shed light on how the nexus that historically exists between the construction of an urban stronghold, the articulatio…
Another Nakba
Violent clashes of June 2007 saw Hamas ousting Fatah from the Gaza Strip, thereby making patent the existence of a deep politico-military split within the Palestinian national movement. This article sheds light on the present face of the conflict in the Palestinian territories by adopting a historical-analytical perspective that emphasizes the role played by the availability of small arms and light weapons, as one of the\nmany structural factors …
Hybrid Economies and Statebuilding
How do informal and criminal economies transform over time, and what are the roles of armed conflict and “postconflict” intervention in this process? Based on four cases of contemporary statebuilding, this article explores the persistence and pervasiveness of extralegal economies in the face of intrusive international intervention and reflects on the implications for state formation. It observes that acting beyond the law is no prerogative of unm…
The Informal and the Criminal
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
Libyan Arms and Regional Instability
As security continues to be a primary challenge in post-Qadhafi Libya, the availability of weapons to nearby opposition groups and armed insurgencies is a source of major concern for Libya’s neighbours and the international community. Uncontrolled weapons proliferation and the rise of new armed groups have gone hand in hand across various conflict fronts. While what is known about weapons acquisition dynamics does not make it possible to establis…
State, Secession, and Jihad
This article explores the nexus between conflicting geopolitical imaginaries and socioeconomic tensions in northern Mali, examining microlevel processes whereby extralegal and criminal economies have reshaped political and armed mobilization, especially among Tuareg who fought to draw the borders of an independent Azawad and jihadists affiliated with the MUJAO Islamist group who sought to abolish all borders. Secessionist, jihadist, and statist p…
Introduction
In framing its analysis around the concept of northwest Africa, this article examines not only the challenges for regional security and state authority in that region but also the processes through which regions are constructed by both local and international actors. It focuses especially on northern Mali and the various types of separatist, jihadist, and criminal networks that operate in this territory. The goal of this article, and of the speci…
Securitisation of research
Knowledge on conflict-affected areas is becoming increasingly important for scholarship and policy. This article identifies a recent change in knowledge production regarding 'zones of danger', attributing it not only to the external environment, but also to an on-going process of securitisation of research resulting from institutional and disciplinary practices. Research is increasingly framed by security concerns and is becoming a security conce…
Governance Beyond the Law
Government policy and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and African arenas
As in previous years, so too in 2018 the migration question dominated the Italian political debate. The new ruling coalition announced a policy change based on the intransigent protection of maritime borders. Against the background of a decline in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores, the year saw the imposition of increasingly tight restrictions on the activities of the NGOs involved in search-and-rescue operations along the central Me…
(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region
This contribution analyses EU approach to stabilisation. Looking at the cases of Libya and Mali, the focus on emerging communities of stabilisation practices helps illustrate how EU investments in sector-specific capacity building are geared to the enhancement of sovereign prerogatives in neighbouring states that are experiencing domestic political challenges. Aiming to achieve a semblance of stability in remote borderlands, though, the outsourci…
Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel
Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, food insecurity, population displacement, transnational crime, contested statehood and jihadist insurgencies. This Special Issue discerns the contours of political orders in the making. After situating the Sahel region in time…
Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger
What is the impact of smuggling on political ordering and stability in fragile states? We investigate how transnational drug smuggling networks affect protection and extraction dynamics, and drive divergent political stability trajectories in fragile countries that otherwise exhibit structural similiarities – i.e. Mali and Niger. Building on ethnographic evidence, we explore the hypothesis that distinctive peace- and state-building strategies res…
Grasping Local Participation
This article focuses on those “points of fracture” (Kirby and Shepherd 2020, 12) that have manifested in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Mediterranean region by examining National Action Plans (NAPs) in two distinct sub-regions – the Western Balkans and North Africa. We develop a comparative framework to shed light on the dimension of participation of these plans in four countries where the debate on WPS ha…
The data that we do (not) have
An increasing amount of reports highlights the growing salience of drug trafficking in Africa. Yet the evidence-base for this claim remains problematic. Stemming from a critical approach to social sciences’ epistemology, the paper explores how drug trafficking data are framed, produced and shared. Building on an extensive literature review and key interviews, it provides an in-depth analysis of both the main open source drug trafficking metrics (…
Strategic misalignment
A key security partner of the region for more than a decade, the European Union today faces growing challenges and the potential failure of its policy towards the Sahel.While the cycle of violence does not appear to be receding, rivals such as Russia -but also Western allies such as Turkey or the Gulf statesare building new partnerships in the region.Contesting the idea that exogenous factors alone explain strategic shortcomings, we explore inste…
Borders Ending Nowhere
Russia has been involved in Africa since Tsarist times, but its involvement has ebbed and flowed. Nonetheless, the idea of Africa as an open political landscape in which Russia could act as a great power has been relatively persistent, often in connection with the domestic resurfacing of civilisational discourses on Russian exceptionalism. Recently, there has been much concern in the West about the expansion of Russian projection in Africa, with …
Political science (19 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Political economy (13 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · State (computer science (8 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 obras) · Development economics (7 obras)