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Cross-cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse
The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity of government, to influence opinion and to recruit and promote political actors. But the discourse of different national parliaments is subject to variation, at all linguistic levels, on the basis of history, cultural specificity, and political culture in particular. Through the use of various analytical tools of functional linguistics, this volume seeks to provide explanatory analyses of parliamentary discourse in different countries Britain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States and to explore its peculiarities. Each chapter outlines a particular methodological framework and its application to instances of parliamentary discourse on important issues such as war, European integration, impeachment and immigration.
Intelligence, Crises and Security
This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’. Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and politics, public and academic interest in the role of secret intelligence has continued to grow in recent years, not least as a result of controversy surrounding the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001. Intelligence, Crises and Security addresses a range of themes including: crisis management, covert diplomacy, intelligence tradecraft, counterterrorism, intelligence ‘overload’, intelligence in relation to neutral states, deception, and signals intelligence. The work breaks new ground in relation to numerous key international episodes and events, not least as a result of fresh disclosures from government archives across the world. This book was previously published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.
Parliamentary Assembly-orders of the Day/minutes of Proceedings-2006 Ordinary Session (First Part)23-27 January 2006
This volume is a collection of the orders of the day and minutes of proceedings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at the first part of the 2006 Ordinary Session (23-27 January 2006. The Assembly meets four times every time (January, April, June and October).The Parliamentary Assembly's publications include, among others, Adopted texts, Assembly documents, and the Official report of debates.
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NATO's Secret Armies
This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centres in England and in the United States by the Green Berets and SAS Special Forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns and high-tech communication equipment hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches in forests and mountain meadows. In some countries the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorist who in a ...
I padroni del Veneto
Il modello veneto? Non esiste. Esistono i veneti e alcuni fra loro comandano più di altri, magari per conto terzi. Un'inchiesta che la dice lunga sull'intreccio tra affari e politica, in una regione gigante economico ma nano politico.Vent'anni fa il Veneto era il principale bacino di voti per la Democrazia Cristiana. Con la fine della Prima Repubblica e il trionfo della Lega, sembrava che il leone di San Marco potesse tornare a ruggire. Ma non è stato così. Il Veneto è l'unica regione europea più ricca della Baviera ma con una politica locale deludente e priva di spessore. Renzo Mazzaro scopre le ragioni del fallimento nella storia politica recente, nel suo malaffare, nelle piccole ambi...
Il corpo del reato
La morte di Stefano Cucchi è uno di quei fatti di cronaca che segnano una generazione e un pezzo di storia italiana. Perché vicenda simbolo, carica di significati pesantissimi: la violenza del Potere, la fragilità dello Stato di diritto, l’incapacità dello Stato italiano di fare i conti con le responsabilità dei suoi servitori, il pericolo che corre un ragazzo che finisce nelle mani di uomini che indossano la divisa di chi garantisce la nostra sicurezza o il camice bianco di chi tutela la nostra salute. Carlo Bonini per oltre dieci anni ha seguito da vicino il caso Cucchi e in questo libro mette al centro il testimone primo e ultimo della verità su quanto accaduto: il Corpo del Reato. Il cadavere di Stefano. Che svela le tappe del suo calvario attraverso gli occhi e la scienza di un medico che, per una coincidenza precisa come un responso, sarà lo stesso chiamato a interpretare i segni delle torture inflitte a Giulio Regeni, trucidato in Egitto e intrappolato in una storia oscura, così diversa e così simile a quella di Stefano Cucchi.
