Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società – 2/2015 E-Book

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• Herausgeber: EDUCatt
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società (Security, Terrorism and Society) è una rivista scientifica online che intende promuovere una riflessione sui numerosi aspetti che caratterizzano la dimensione “sicurezza” nel mondo globale, con particolare attenzione alle derive di tipo terroristico, senza nessuna preclusione culturale. Lo scopo della rivista è di promuovere il dialogo tra academici, analisti e policy maker sui temi della sicurezza e del rischio nella società contemporanea. La prospettiva assunta è quella propria delle scienze sociali, con le quali si confrontano e si combinano competenze, antropologiche,comunicative, economiche, giuridiche, politologiche, sociologiche e tecnologiche. Si tratta pertanto di un approccio multidisciplinare considerato necessario per affrontare sia sul piano teorico sia sul piano empirico le nuove sfide del XXI Secolo. I contributi di riflessione e analisi sono indirizzati ad approfondire i temi del crisis management, nuove tecnologie, sicurezza, sorveglianza e terrorismo.

Leseprobe

Sicurezza, terrorismo e società

international journal – Italian Team for Security, Terroristic Issues & Managing Emergencies

ISSUE I – 2/2015

Direttore Responsabile:

Matteo Vergani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano e Global Terrorism Research Centre – Melbourne)

Co-Direttore e Direttore Scientifico:

Marco Lombardi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Comitato Scientifico:

Maria Alvanou (Lecturer at National Security School – Atene)

Cristian Barna (“Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy– Bucharest, Romania)

Claudio Bertolotti (senior strategic Analyst at CeMiSS, Military Centre for Strategic Studies – Roma)

Valerio de Divitiis (Expert on Security, Dedicated to Human Security – DEDIHS)

Chiara Fonio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Sajjan Gohel (London School of Economics – London)

Rovshan Ibrahimov (Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy University – Baku, Azerbaijan)

Daniel Köhler (German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies – Berlin)

Miroslav Mareš (Masaryk University – Brno, Czech Republic)

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Anita Perešin (University of Zagreb – Croatia)

Giovanni Pisapia (Senior Security Manager, BEGOC – Baku – Azerbaijan)

Iztok Prezelj (University of Ljubljana)

Eman Ragab (Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS) – Cairo)

Riccardo Redaelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Mark Sedgwick (University of Aarhus – Denmark)

Arturo Varvelli (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale – ISPI – Milano)

Kamil Yilmaz (Independent Researcher – Turkish National Police)

Munir Zamir (Fida Management&C7 – London)

Sabina Zgaga (University of Maribor – Slovenia)

Ivo Veenkamp (Hedayah – Abu Dhabi)

Comitato Editoriale:

Gabriele Barni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Alessandro Burato (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Alessia Ceresa (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Barbara Lucini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

Davide Scotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)

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isbn edizione cartacea: 978-88-6780-958-5

isbn edizione ePub: 978-88-6780-959-2

copertina: progetto grafico Studio Editoriale EDUCatt

Table of contents

Research articles

Matteo Vergani, Ana-Maria Bliuc

The evolution of the ISIS’ language: a quantitative analysis of the language of the first year of Dabiq magazine

Claudio Bertolotti, Andrea Beccaro

Suicide Attacks: Strategy, from the Afghan War to Syraq and Mediterranean region. A triple way to read the asymmetric threats

Analyses and commentaries

Laris Gaiser

Intelligence economica: una proposta per l’Italia

Giovanni Giacalone

Islamic extremism from the Balkans emerges in Italy

Focus: Web Intelligence

Marco Lombardi, Alessandro Burato, Marco Maiolino

Dalla SOCMINT alla Digital HumInt. Ricomprendere l’uso dei Social nel ciclo di intelligence

Alessandro Burato

SOCial Media INTelligence: un nuovo spazio per la raccolta di informazioni rilevanti

Mauro Pastorello

How cyberspace is used by terrorist organization: possible threats to critical infrastructures? The most recent activities of cyber counterterrorism

Focus: Grandi Eventi

Giovanni Pisapia

A Case Study Analysis of the Implementation of GIS Technology for Safety and Security Planning during Major Sport Events

Executive Summary

Research articles

The evolution of the ISIS’ language:a quantitative analysis of the languageof the first year of Dabiq magazine

Matteo Vergani1, Ana-Maria Bliuc2

Abstract

In this article we investigate the evolution of ISIS by analysing the text contained in Dabiq, the official ISIS’ internet magazine in English. Specifically, we used a computerized text analysis pro-gram LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) to investigate the evolution of the language of the first 11 Issues of Dabiq. First, our analysis showed that affiliation seems to be an increasingly important psychological motive for the group. Secondly, ISIS has been increasingly using emotions, which are an important mobilizing factor in collective action literature, in a strategic manner. Thirdly, ISIS language presents an increasing concern with females. Last but not least, our analysis shows that ISIS has been increasingly using internet jargon (net-speak), which shows how the group tries to adapt itself to the internet environment and to connect with the identities of young individuals.

ISIS is of particular concern as it seems to be more successful at recruiting foreign fighters than other jihadist groups (such as al-Qaeda). This aspect is difficult to quantify because reliable it is hard to access data about the exact number, demographics and affiliation of the foreign fighters who joined those organizations. Yet according to reports by the European Union there is a concerning increase in recruitment rates and patterns, with ISIS being more successful at recruiting young individuals from Western countries than any other jihadist group (Archick, Belkin, Blanchard, Hemud, & Mix, 2015). Scholars suggested that the majority of newly recruited jihadists prefer ISIS to other jihadist groups (Karmon, 2015; Klausen, 2015; Peresin, 2015; Peresin & Cervone, 2015; Turner, 2015)and journalists reported that existing members of al-Qaeda even abandoned the group to join ISIS (Dilanian, 2015; Miller, 2014). Moreover, a 2015 report from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence based at London King’s College stated that the number of jihadist foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq from 2011 to 2014 has surpassed the total number of jihadists who went fighting in Afghanistan against the Soviets, when al-Qaeda emerged.