Alessia Tortolini

• University of Bologna

This study examines how Turkey’s use of the state of emergency following the 2016 coup attempt contributed to the democratic backsliding process already undergoing in the country since 2011, employing meta-constitutional analysis as the methodological framework. The enforcement of emergency rule allowed the executive to expand its authority, leadin...

International humanitarian interventions are intended to alleviate extensive human suffering within defined or internationally recognized borders of a sovereign state. According to the UN resolution 57/150 each state has, first and foremost, the responsibility to take care of the victims of natural disasters occurring within its borders and that th...

Following the evaluation of the effectiveness of governance during the Covid-19 crisis, this chapter examines the strategies of political communication of Lebanese crisis leaders before moving toward the final evaluation of strategic crisis leadership in accordance with Boin, ‘t Hart, Stern, and Sundelius’ theoretical framework (2016). With the aid...

When engaging with crisis management, a fact becomes evident: the overwhelming majority of the scientific research on the topic focuses on Western countries. This is not a surprising piece of data. Crisis management studies emerged and developed in Western liberal democracies to address unexpected situations and emergencies of any kind, tracing bac...

This chapter focuses on the importance of crisis governance. The role of leadership is in fact crucial in ensuring a smoother management of the emergency, although the difficulty in implementing effective measures in a short time challenges the capacity of crisis leaders. In order to evaluate the governance capacity of a leadership when a crisis th...

This chapter employs the Institutional Analysis Development (IAD) framework to examine the specificities of the Lebanese context in order to address the governance of the Covid-19 crisis of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah. Through the use of the IAD framework for the analysis of policy processes it is possible to evaluate expected governance...

Intentional acts of interference towards chemical and process installations became a relevant concern over the last decades. The successful attacks involving the release of hazardous substances contained in industrial facilities may result in severe consequences for population and environment. This issue is exacerbated in critical areas, which expe...

The framework of Iranian national identity has been the cornerstone of the discourse of different social groups that aimed to establish their hegemony over the ‘imagined community’ of Iranians. The difficulty in determining the territorial delimitation of identity, as well as the process of creation-assimilation of a unitarian paradigm of identity...

PLURIEL 3rd International Congress on the theme "Islam and Otherness". 2020, April 14-15, Beirut, Lebanon Study stay from April 14th to17th Website : https://evenement.pluriel.fuce.eu PLURIEL is the University Pltaform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon. It aims to promote the link between researchers on Islam and the Muslim-Christian...