https://hdl.handle.net/10807/93 2026-09-10T05:27:43Z 2026-09-10T05:27:43Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/345976 2026-09-10T00:12:38Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Titolo: The European Union in the new global disorder: Transformations, challenges, and future scenarios Autori: Cecilia Manzo; Marco Valbruzzi Abstract: The European Union (EU) is experiencing a broader process of political, economic and social reconfiguration that challenges both established institutional arrangements and the conceptual frameworks through which European integration has long been understood. Over the past decade, the language of crisis has become central to the study of the EU. Concepts such as crisis, polycrisis, resilience, strategic autonomy and differentiated integration have helped scholars capture the growing complexity of the challenges confronting the EU (Joseph and Juncos 2024; Schimmelfennig et al 2023; Ferrara et al. 2022; Lippert et al. 2019; Zeitlin et al. 2019). Yet the current moment also reveals the limits of inherited analytical frameworks. What is at stake is not only the EU’s capacity to respond to successive shocks, but transformation of the very conditions under which European integration takes place. Many of the categories through which European integration has traditionally been interpreted were developed under assumptions of relative geopolitical stability, progressive market integration, regulatory governance and incremental institutional change. These assumptions no longer fully capture the conditions under which the EU now operates. War has returned as a structuring force of European politics; economic interdependence is increasingly recast as a source of vulnerability; digital infrastructures reshape democratic communication and public authority; climate energy and migration pressures expose new form of social and territorial inequality; and geopolitical competition forces the EU to reconsider the relationship between market openness, security and strategic autonomy. This Special Issue starts from this premise. It argues that the EU’s current political moment should be understood less as a succession of discrete crises than as a process of reconfiguration. Reconfiguration does not simply refer to institutional adaptation or policy change, but to a deeper transformation in the relationships between markets and states, internal and external security, public authority and democratic legitimacy, social expectations and collective action. The EU is being pushed to redefine what it does, how it acts, and what kind of political community it becoming This transformation is also social. European citizens are not passive observers of this transformation. They interpret, contest and negotiate the meaning of European integration through their own social positions, political orientations and expectations about the future. While some citizens call for a stronger and more protective Europe, others express distrust toward supranational institutions and support Eurosceptic political projects. These tensions reveal that the legitimacy of the EU is not produced only through institutional performance, but also through social recognition, collective imaginaries and the capacity to provide credible orientations in uncertain times. The central claim of this Special Issue is that the way Europe is studied must also change. If the EU is being reconfigured across institutional, social, economic and geopolitical dimensions, then inherited analytical distinctions — between internal and external politics, market integration and security, policy performance and identity, institutional capacity and public legitimacy — become increasingly difficult to sustain. The task is not to abandon existing theories of European integration, but to test their limits and ask which conceptual tools are needed to understand a polity whose future is being shaped at once by war, strategic dependencies, democratic contestation, digital transformation, territorial inequalities and changing expectations of protection and solidarity.

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Titolo: Discourse, Conversation and Argumentation: Theoretical Perspectives and Innovative Empirical Studies, Volume IV Autori: Bova, Antonio; Haddouk, L.; Galimberti, Carlo; Arcidiacono, F. Abstract: This Research Topic is the fourth volume of "Discourse, Conversation and Argumentation: Theoretical Perspectives and Innovative Empirical Studies". Please, see the first volume here, second volume here, and third volume here. As members of a social world within which interaction needs and communicative tools are intertwined in a series of situated relationships, interactions between individuals, but also between groups and between institutions, emerges from the beginning of life. Thinking about how we participate in an interaction, through verbal and non-verbal exchanges, allows us to focus on explicit and implicit norms, on personal and collective preferences, on subjective and interpersonal theories, and on social processes of construction of meaning that characterize the communicative interactions. Although discursive, conversational, and argumentative interactions play an essential role in our lives, there is no integrated area of psychological research on these types of communicative interactions. A wide variety of works is available concerning the focus on the different roles played by social actors within the interactions (symmetric-asymmetric, protagonist-antagonist, teacher-learner), as well as the interest for the constitutive aspects of the interactions (emotional, motivational, cognitive) or developmental factors (skills, competences, knowledge). However, research on discourse, conversation, and argumentation is conducted in a number of separate research communities that are spread across disciplines and have only limited intertwinement. It is necessary to create a space for open dialogue within the community of researchers interested in discourse, conversation, and argumentation from a psychological perspective. Intending to bridge these different strands, the aim of this Research Topic falls under two main goals: (1) to explore novel and promising theoretical perspectives to study discursive, conversational and argumentative interactions from a psychological perspective; (2) and to provide an extensive platform of the latest innovative research investigating discursive, conversational, and argumentative interactions between individuals, between groups, and between institutions to shed light on the most recent methodological developments to examining these types of interactions. As such, the Research Topic provides an ideal opportunity for researchers working in different international and psychological contexts to draw together their work within a common forum. This will provide state-of-the-art collective evidence of the breadth of psychological research on discourse, conversation, and argumentation as well as place emphasis on opportunities for mutual awareness and integration, which will have implications for international psychological research and theory on these issues. The Research Topic welcomes high-quality original research, reviews, commentaries, and perspectives on topics dealing with these issues. The collection is particularly interested in psychological perspectives on discursive, conversational, and argumentative interactions and in empirically supported approaches to analyze them.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/345897 2026-09-08T00:09:50Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Titolo: RETICOLARITÀ E DIMENSIONE ISTITUZIONALE (SECOLI IX-XIII) Autori: D'Acunto, Nicolangelo; Filippini, Elisabetta Abstract: This volume, which brings together the proceedings of the ninth edition of the Mendola International Weeks of Medieval Studies, explores the theme of the institutional dimension and its interplay with the networked dimension, understood at various levels: the tools employed in the construction of supra-local institutional networks; an awareness of such strategies and the benefits they yield (or, where applicable, the accumulation of empirical experiences that are, from time to time, either consolidated or rejected); representations of networked structures; networks of concepts and words in written sources as a reflection of actual networked structures; and research methodologies that harness the potential of a networked approach. These aspects are particularly evident during the central centuries of the Middle Ages, both in religious and ecclesiastical spheres and in the civil sphere, since the creation of networks served to consolidate powers intended to give substance to the transition from the strictly personal dimension—typical of early medieval institutions—to a spatial, and at times territorial, dimension. This approach to study and research falls within the scope of applications of social network analysis and adopts some of its perspectives in the historiographical field, drawing on tools already developed and utilised by sociology and anthropology, starting from networks of institutional actors that are more or less formalised. For this reason, the comparative analysis of the networks established within the various civil and ecclesiastical institutional spheres and their respective instruments begins with a number of concrete cases of supra-local organisations, with a view to observing both the changes undergone by the actors when they join a network and the adjustments in the range of instruments linking them together. This is a highly innovative approach to medieval history, which facilitates dialogue with the social sciences through the use of new technologies.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/344165 2026-08-19T00:09:56Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Titolo: La famiglia in televisione. La famiglia con la televisione Autori: Fanchi, Mariagrazia

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