Monday 22 January 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
Insecurity and security has taken an increasing importance and political weight since the 1980s and more so since the 1990s, first of all, in the United States and then in Europe and the rest of the world. The phenomenon has grown through the often extreme medialisation on the issue of insecurity and security of the great urban agglomerations in wealthy nations. After the 11th September 2001, it was absorbed into the subject of permanent war against the new «global enemy» . Before going into an analysis of the different interpretations of the phenomenon, I believe it would be useful to outline the contents and therefore the theoretical and methodological instruments I intend to use in this work.