Fabrizio Coticchia

FYI @smsaideman.bsky.social

"Extending the armed forces’ participation in internal security gives rise to problems within the military.Soldiers are transformed into subordinates of the police, they are relegated to routine constabulary duties".See this paper, Charles Moskos Prize 2025, on🇮🇹 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If mil leaders don’t buy the message, they can keep quiet or self-select out. Those who don’t want to be part of politicized military (or agree w/ the ideology) leave. This aims to weed out committed professionals who strongly adhere to norms of nonpartisanship. 6/

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political v...

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war Before 2022, many populist politicians had a relatively positive view of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. They welcomed meetings with him, posed for photographs, and even wore T-shirts bea...

New article published by our own @bertjanverbeek.bsky.social Jutta Joachim, Chris Nijhuis, and Andrej Zaslove (with @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social ) in @cambridgecria.bsky.social

👉 'The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war'

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0955...

‘Caccia nederlandesi’? Un po’ di controllo post chat gpt? Dai su

The Top 10 Trump Administration Foreign-Policy Mistakes So far.

We have front-row seats to the greatest voluntary liquidation of a great power’s status and geopolitical influence in modern history, writes columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.

Information and national security during international crises Discussion with Fabrizio Coticchia and Simone Tholens

‘Information and national security during international crises’ EURAC, October 3rd www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war Before 2022, many populist politicians had a relatively positive view of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. They welcomed meetings with him, posed for photographs, and even wore T-shirts bea...

Glad to see our paper out: "The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war" Cambridge Review of International Affairs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Conferenza SISP "Political science in the digital age" (prima giornata) Evento organizzato dal 4 al 6 settembre

Roundtable - Italy and the Transformation of European Security (in Italian. Tavola rotonda sul riarmo europeo) at #SISP25 www.radioradicale.it/scheda/76717...

US Frowns on Italy’s Idea of Making Sicily Bridge a NATO Asset The US said it disapproves of any creative accounting by European allies to reach a new NATO spending target, putting Italy on the spot as the government weighs whether to count the construction of th...

ops..."US Pushes Back on Italy Counting Sicily Bridge as NATO Asset" (yet, still not clear how Italy had mysteriously reached the 2%...) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Grandissimo.

Old-School Artillery Survives and Thrives in the Drone Age Even as UAVs flood the Ukrainian battlefield, the howitzer’s simplicity and firepower plays a key role.

‘Ukrainian artillerists say they aren’t using howitzers any less because of drones. They are telling the U.S. and other allies that big guns retain some key advantages, not least greater firepower.’ www.wsj.com/world/europe...

"Leaders who violate alliances could attempt
to minimize the damage by misrepresenting the terms of
the alliance, claiming that circumstances have changed, or
painting the ally’s behavior in an unflattering light" Tomz and Weeks 2021, ISQ #Ukraine #NATO

Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday...

"Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief" news.un.org/en/story/202...

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants You all deserved better.

Remarkable open letter from Bill Burns. "If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon. Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai." theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Per chi fosse interessato, un mio intervento a Class CNBC in relazione a guerra in #Ucraina e difesa europea 👇https://video.milanofinanza.it/video/mercati-le-incognite-del-settore-difesa-in-attesa-del-faccia-a-faccia-tra-putin-e-zelensky-x9p6uaa

People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.

Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?

Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?

Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?

Congrats!

✨ Two additional articles from our new #SpecialIssue are now 🆓#FreeAccess! ⏳

1⃣ The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine

By Valerio Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social

📖 Read and ⬇️ download it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine In recent years, a research agenda on the party politics of military interventions has flourished. However, considerably less attention has been devoted to analysing party positions on the decision...

Free access: "The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sending the Guard to police DC citizens politicizes the military--just like using it and active duty troops against protesters and in immigration and counter cartel missions does.

This is no accident. It's part of a broader effort to transform the military into a partisan force.

I’m pleased to be part of this special issue, with the paper ‘The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in #Ukraine’ (with V.Vignoli)

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller Relief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller https://on.ft.com/3ILGrKP

One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating.

Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154

www.sisp.it/in-evidenza/...

Dichiarazione della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) su Gaza