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(Intervento al Séminaire International "Innovation et formation pour le développement humain", Camerino, 18-20 gennaio 2010, organizzato dal Comité Scientifique Inter Agences des Nations Unies pour la coopération au développement humain).* Presentato dal Dipartimento di Studi su Società, Politica e Istituzioni.

Obiettivo della tesi è indagare il concetto di stato di eccezione, in particolare nella sua declinazione internazionale e in quello che la Scuola di Copenaghen chiama "processo di securitizzazione". Si è indagata la relazione tra anarchia internazionale ed eccezione e l'idea che l'eccezione vada intesa come "processo correttivo" e non come un "evento", utilizzando alcune categorie di pensiero ebraico/kabbalistiche ed il "Costruttivismo evolutivo" di Emanuel Adler. Ci si è anche soffermati su come il neoliberismo "tecnologico" potrebbe controllare questo processo. La tesi è divisa in tre capitoli. Nel primo capitolo si cerca di delineare un'attinenza internazionale al concetto di stato di eccezione e si sono approfonditi autori chiave del pensiero sull'eccezione, come Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin e Giorgio Agamben. Nel secondo capitolo si è introdotto il concetto affine di "emergenza", per poi introdurre la Scuola di Copenaghen ed il suo concetto di securitizzazione, concludendo con un'indagine sulle origini schmittiane della stessa Scuola. Infine nel terzo capitolo si è introdotta la tematica dell'anarchia internazionale, spostando poi l'attenzione su un discorso di "anarchia umana", utile ad introdurre una discussione "ebraico-kabbalistica" dell'eccezione incentrata sulla categoria del "tikkun" (correzione) e del Costruttivismo di Adler, concludendo con un'analisi sul neoliberismo tecnologico. ; The aim of this thesis is to investigate the concept of the state of exception, in particular its international declination and what the Copenhagen School calls the "securitization process". The relationship between international anarchy and exception is investigated along with the idea that exception should be regarded as a "corrective process" rather than an "event", using some Jewish / Kabbalistic categories of thought and Emanuel Adler's "Evolutionary Constructivism". We also focus on how "technological neoliberalism" could control this process. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter seeks to outline the international relevance of the concept of the state of exception. For this, key authors on the subject have been explored, namely: Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. In the second chapter the concept of "emergency" and Copenhagen School's concept of securitization were introduced, concluding with an investigation on the Schmittian origins of the aforementioned School. Finally, the third chapter focuses on the theme of international anarchy then shifting attention to a discourse of "human anarchy", useful for introducing a "Jewish-Kabbalistic" discussion of exception centered on the category of "tikkun" (correction) and Adler's Constructivism, concluding with an analysis of technological neoliberalism.

Over the last twenty years, the adjective 'humanitarian' has been the subject of unprecedented systematic linguistic abuse. It has been used in relation to the most diverse international political situations, the term has been used in order to define, and even more to justify, events which had little or nothing to do with the true meaning of the word. In this manner, politics has taken possession of a word and completely distorted its concept and its moral value, bending it in accordance with its own interests and shamelessly placing it next to its semantic opposite – war. With the end of 20th Century ideologies, the national State fell into crisis and as a consequence so did the organisms and institutions which it had founded. To the eyes of international public opinion, it is therefore difficult to justify a return to the use of arms in order to resolve disputes or in order to authorise intervention of a dubious nature beyond a nation's own borders. It is in precisely this context that man's fundamental rights are torn from their sacred throne in order to be subjected to forms of politico-economic logic which, owing to their assumed absolute nature, should not belong to them. The point, therefore, is to understand whether absolute rights which can be shared by everyone do, in fact, exist, and if so, what to do to protect them. In the meantime, the universalism of rights is used as if it were a skeleton key with which to penetrate public opinion (which is, at this point, global). At the same time, the international institutions which were created and appointed to control and safeguard the inviolable rights of man seem completely to have lost the authority which, however, they should hold. The finding of plausible justifications to delays, the absence of taking a stand and the making of unpopular choices therefore seems to have become the main occupation of an international political class which seems to be walking slowly whilst the rest of the world is running at speed. Are there, however, cases in which a war ...

Since the Nineties, the process of globalization has caused a sharp increase in the real and financial integration of the worldwide economy, reducing the obstacles to international trade and minimizing the cost of transaction. The entrance of foreign firms in the domestic market has deeply modified the competitive situation of Italian enterprises, which have been forced to change their strategies in order to cope with those of the new competitors. In this scenario, internationalization is no longer one of the different strategic options available for the firm, but it becomes a forced choice to maintain or acquire a competitive advantage sustainable over time. Internationalization strategies of SMEs, however, are hindered by the shortage of financial resources and entrepreneurial skills, therefore this kind of firms tends toward light forms of foreign expansion, like export and subcontracting. Despite this, many studies have demonstrated that the district localisation increases the firms' productivity and innovative capacity, so their competiveness both at a domestic and international level. The majority of these empirical contributions has focused mainly on the analysis of commercial flows, confirming that district enterprises reach a superior international performance compared to their external competitors. On the contrary, only few works have tried to evaluate the existence of a district effect on the firms' ability to invest abroad, but the obtained results are not straightforward. One of the reason of these conclusions is that the phenomena has been analysed without taking into account the differences existing between districts in terms of enterprises' dimension, diffusion of industrial groups and, above all, the sector of productive specialization, because the technological content of production could improve the innovativeness of district firms, allowing them to adopt advanced forms of internationalisation as foreign direct investments (FDI). The aim of the thesis is to further investigate the district effect on internationalisation, trough an econometric analysis of the international strategies carried out by firms localised in three different local system of production characterised by different technological specialization.

Questo lavoro si propone di portare l'attenzione sul caso studio di un paesaggio culturale antico segnato dal fenomeno coloniale, in cui è avvenuta l'interazione tra due grandi e diverse componenti etniche. Ad essere preso in esame è il territorio degli Enotri, in gran parte coincidente con le aree di influenza delle colonie achee di Crotone, Sibari e Metaponto e della ionica Siris, per comprendere entro quali dinamiche si è verificato il contatto tra gli indigeni e i Greci al momento delle fondazioni. L?obiettivo del lavoro è quello di tracciare la natura e le caratteristiche del popolamento enotrio e le trasformazioni avvenute dopo le fondazioni greche. In antitesi alle tendenze primitiviste e diffusioniste che si appiattiscono nella considerazione esclusiva dell'elemento coloniale, questa ricerca ha tentato di riconoscere il ruolo, troppo spesso marginalizzato, svolto dagli indigeni nella definizione politico-culturale della Magna Grecia