Odetta Pizzingrilli

LUISS Guido Carli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali | Luiss · Department of Political Science

In this brief section, I explore the dynamics of the Jordanian context, characterized by its complexity yet predictability, where the autocratic power dynamics embedded in the constitutional framework exacerbate corruption and erode civil liberties (Bustani in Jordan’s new opposition and the traps of identity and ambiguity. Jadaliyya, 2011a). This...

During the Ottoman era, the territory that came to be known as Transjordan was not recognized as a single administrative unit. Instead, it was identified by its various districts: Ajloun, al-Balqa, al-Karak, and Ma’an. Collectively, these areas bore little resemblance to today’s Kingdom of Jordan, forming a narrow strip of land from the Jordan Vall...

I will begin this section by exploring the insights from Int. K1 regarding the situation in Kuwait during the decade leading up to the so-called Arab Spring.

I will examine the Kuwaiti identity starting from the pivotal decades of the 1920s and 1930s and following historical, geopolitical, and economic turning points along with Int. K1’s insights. However, before venturing into the intricacies of these and subsequent eras, a brief prologue—akin to the prelude of a tale—is necessary. This detour mirrors...

The book is based on extensive fieldwork, including over eighty open, semi-structured interviews that I conducted in 2016 and 2017 (averaging forty-five minutes each) and a subsequent round of twenty open, unstructured interviews conducted in 2022–23 (lasting between two and five hours each). Both interview rounds took place in Jordan and Kuwait an...

The first part regards the Jordanian management of the migration flows, with a focus on its implications on the local (the impacts on the country’s national identity), regional (the neighboring countries’ response to the Jordanian policy) and international dimensions (mapping the Mediterranean crisis: the role of Jordan and its strategy’s wider out...

This chapter aims to analyse how the relation between the (Trans) Jordanian state institutions and the undoubtedly crucial Circassian minority has changed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Indeed such dissolution has been a decisive moment for the Circassian self-perception as the motherland, until that time only a place to yearn for, sudd...