Fabrizio Coticchia

Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing 'unlawful orders' The Defense Department suggested that the investigation of the Arizona Democrat Kelly stems from urging military members to refuse to follow unlawful orders.

Extraordinary step. Pentagon, under pretext of "good order and discipline", threatens to recall to duty and court-martial Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, after he recorded a video telling troops they could refuse illegal orders. Dangerous & authoritarian.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...

"Trump envoy Witkoff reportedly advised Kremlin official on Ukraine peace deal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our online special issue, The Future of Global Governance and World Order, is out!

It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#IOFoGG

Spidermen meme about blaming each other

Blessed are the peacemakers

Ecco il testo di riforma della governance degli atenei: e non c'è solo il rappresentante del governo nel CdA Ecco il testo, finora segreto, della riforma della governance delle università partorito dalla commissione presieduta da Galli Della Loggia. Le due novità più rilevanti si conoscono già: la nomina da ...

‘Budapest bella, ma non ci vivrei’ www.roars.it/ecco-il-test...

In case this got lost, reminder that at COP30 the United States is not sending any high level representatives, and apparently no technical staff either, for the first time in 30 years.

-E come va il dibattito pubblico in Italia sulla politica estera e le relazioni internazionali?
-Eh, al confronto, va meglio la Fiorentina…

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

"Information and national security during international crises" www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

It is worth noticing that Italy remains the sole W middle power without a National Security Strategy and a National Security Council...

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump on.ft.com/48HkTdu

💡 Valerio Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social FIND…💡
a curvilinear support for military aid across the left–right axis. Yet, FdI’s backing constitutes a deviation from this model.

Read the article here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Protest sign: “they’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances”

Protest sign: “No Kings, No Kleptocrats, No Dic-Tator-Tots”

It’s a beautiful day to resist democratic backsliding!

From 1,5% to 2% of the GDP in "one night" for 🇮🇹...
How? Still a mystery not explained by official docs (below the DPP): "military mobility" (??) + "sectors with more military focus" (???)
🤔

Defense expenditure: Italy moved from around 1.5% to 2% of the GDP in 2025. How? We don’t know exactly. We waited months for a detailed answer. The DPP (👇) supposed to finally provide some info. Yet, no info at all. Still a mystery…

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