GNOSIS - n. 1/2010
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The Metropolis and its surroundings
by Emanuela C. DEL RE
Answers by: Franco Ferrarotti, Massimo Ilardi, Maria Immacolata Macioti, Umberto Melotti
“I samurai of modern times” (“Les samouraïs des temps modernes”) is a French film which came out in 2001, directed by Ariel Zeitoun and Julien Seri, produced by Luc Besson. As in the Kurosawa tradition, the modern samurai of the film are seven, but the setting is the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris, not the Japan of the XVI Century. Full of clichés about life in the suburbs...
A CONVERSATION WITH
Stefano BERRETTONI
President of the
counter-terrorism strategic analisys committee
A conversation with the President
Prefect and Director of the Central Dept. of Police Prevention, degreed in Law, has served as Officer in the Italian Navy and joined the Police Force in
1972
. Since 1973, after a short period of service at the Police Partol Office in Palermo he has always been involved in Counter terrorism activities, serving in various field branches as well as in the Central Headquarters. Until being appointed “Questore” of Latina he served as Director of the Counterterrorism Service of the Central Dept. of Police Prevention becoming, at last, Deputy Director of the Department.
Planet Security
The ‘environmental’ security
by Gianluca ANSALONE
If the Energy sources were the real causes of the last World War and of more recent conflicts, of high and low tension – access to water, famines as a consequence of climatic changes or the utilization of arable land for purposes other than crop cultivation - with all probability they will be at the origin of new tensions, susceptible to degenerate in area wars, precondition for wider involvement. And precisely this is the new frontier of the analyses of Intelligence...
The Intelligence – between online poker and electronic money
The business of online gaming
Italy represents one of the European Union markets with the highest growth in the games sector. The Italian accentuated inclination to gaming, the multiplication of the qualitative and quantitative offer of online games, and the capillary diffusion of Internet, support, in particular, the growth of the games in online version. In this sense, the priority established by the International bodies Committee, constituted at the State Monopolies Autonomous Administration (AAMS) – made up of executive representatives of the State Police, the Carabinieri, and the Guardia di Finanza – of monitoring the sector of illegal games on the Web, come up against an indispensable need of national economic security....
From
‘Al Ittihaad’ to ‘Al Shabaab’
A new role for Italy
in the Somalia risk
by Michele LANNA
After a long period of “inattention” towards Somalia, recent events and consequent new scenarios pose, for Italy, the question of a major presence and judicious action in the arena of the Horn of Africa. In the face of the developments and expansionism of the “Al Shabaab” Movement, it becomes urgent to understand correctly what is happening and to realize adequate strategies of intervention, before assisting at the birth of a new Somali “rogue state”, with direct implications on the stability of the entire area. But with a modern and advanced cultural approach that takes into account the type of Somali society and the organizations derived...
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