Jason Warner

Alla vigilia del più grande conflitto bellico della storia lo psichiatra Henry Colton riceve un telegramma che annuncia la morte del suo mentore, il dottor James Moore. Un uomo riservato, solo, malinconico che sorprende Henry con una richiesta a lui diretta scritta in punto di morte. Attraverso le sue parole ripercorrerà l'esistenza del giovane James e di colei che l'innocenza non fu in grado di proteggere: Norah. PROLOGO È dunque questa la storia che sto per raccontarvi. Una storia in cui è l'amore il protagonista, ma nella sua veste più cupa. Quell'amore capace di donare un istante di gioia infinitamente intensa, per portarti poco dopo alla lacerazione del corpo e dello spirito. Un amore capace di logorarti dall'interno, lacerare i sottili fili che tengono insieme la ragione lasciandoti in balia dell'oblio. Eccomi qui ad avvisarti, mio caro lettore, che per leggere questa storia dovrai svestirti di ogni logica ed etica per comprendere appieno ciò che accadde a queste due persone che il destino inaspettatamente unì molti anni or sono. Ma partiamo dall'inizio, da quella mattina in cui ricevetti un telegramma che parlava di una persona che da tempo la memoria aveva stivato in un baule di una stanza abbandonata della mente. "I funerali del dottor Moore si terranno domenica alle ore 10 nella cappella dell'istituto. Ho una lettera per lei da parte sua. Emilie"

L'ombra della ragione

Norah

Come il sole a mezzanotte

Timothy M. Shaw

This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion that Africa should be considered a "niche" interest in the field of foreign policy analysis. It asserts that the actions of the continent's states collectively serve as an important heuristic by which to interrogate and understand the foreign policies of other global states, and are not simply "anomalously" extant entities whose actions should be studied only insofar as they deviate from predictions based on the experiences of Western or other non-African states.

African Foreign Policies in International Institutions

In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate’s death knell, and many now forecast its imminent demise. Yet its affiliates endure, particularly in Africa: nearly all of Islamic State’s cells on the continent have reaffirmed their allegiance, attacks have continued in its name, many groups have been reinvigorated, and a new province has emerged. Why, in Africa, did the two major setbacks of 2019 have so little impact on support for Islamic State? The Islamic State in Africa suggests that this puzzle can be explained by the emergence and evolution of Islamic State’s provinces in Africa, which it calls ‘sovereign subordinates’. By examining the rise and development of eight Islamic State ‘cells’, the authors show how, having pledged allegiance to IS Central, cells evolved mostly autonomously, using the IS brand as a means for accrual of power, but, in practice, receiving relatively little if any direction or material support from central command. Given this pattern, IS Central’s relative decline has had little impact on its African affiliates—who are likely to remain committed to the Caliphate’s cause for the foreseeable future.

The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront

The Islamic State in Africa

Brett Stewart

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In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate's death knell, and many now forecast its imminent demise. Yet its affiliates endure, particularly in Africa: nearly all of Islamic State's cells on the continent have reaffirmed their allegiance, attacks have continued in its name, many groups have been reinvigorated, and a new province has emerged. Why, in Africa, did the two major setbacks of 2019 have so little impact on support for Islamic State? The Islamic State in Africa suggests that this puzzle can be explained by the emergence and evolution of Islamic State's provinces in Africa, which it calls 'sovereign subordinates'. By examining the rise and development of eight Islamic State 'cells', the authors show how, having pledged allegiance to IS Central, cells evolved mostly autonomously, using the IS brand as a means for accrual of power, but, in practice, receiving relatively little if any direction or material support from central command. Given this pattern, IS Central's relative decline has had little impact on its African affiliates-who are likely to remain committed to the Caliphate's cause for the foreseeable future.

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