RSPI 2024/4

01/01/2025

Sovereignty, hierarchy, security in a shared world order as religio-cultural concepts.

James Dingley

This article seeks to examine the failure of policy makers in international relations to seriously look at the role of religion, especially when Western “Christian” States seek to intervene in non-Christian societies, such as Afghanistan, both in terms of development aid and political state building.

Tra Monza e Abbazia. L’avvento di Tommaso Tittoni alla Consulta (1900-1905).

Lorenzo Cerimele

Taking due cue from diplomatic sources and the most important works on the subject, the history of Italian-Habsburg relations around the unfolding of the delicate Macedonian crisis at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries has been sketched out. The time span of the analysis begins with the Monza Agreements carried out by Visconti Venosta in 1900-1901 up to Abbazia and Venice conferences of 1904 and 1905, during which the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire succeeded in extending the principle of «noli me tangere» to the Albanian vilayets of Shkodra and Janina and the remaining «Macedonian» vilayets belonging to the Ottoman Porte.

The Guantánamo detention camp and international humanitarian law

Marco Marsili

Through the reconstruction of the policies of the US Administrations that have followed one another over the years (2002-2024), this paper retraces two decades of gross human rights violations in the Guantánamo detention camp and aims to preserve the memory of one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

Le immunità attribuite al Presidente degli Stati Uniti. L’Executive Privilege

Rodolfo Bastianelli

This essay in the first paragraph describes the immunities assigned to the President of the United States, the historical precedents of legal proceedings in which the White House is involveded, and the opinions expressed by the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice confirming the Presidents privileges during his mandate. In the second paragraph the President’s Executive Privilege and its limits when an Impeachment procedure are analyzed.

La Russia antica: aspetti geografici, storici e socio-politici.

Giuseppe Nastri

The Russian mentality, whereby autonomous thinking can appear disloyal to the homeland, was shaped by difficult geographical conditions, external threats and a strong central authority. Rooted in the Varangian state of Novgorod and Kiev, in Orthodoxy and Byzantine caesaropapism, Russia faced Mongol occupations, Western invasions and incursions by slave hunters from the south. The need for defence and expansion and a severe social divide have strengthened resilience and a spirit of sacrifice but aggravated the hardships for the masses.