Foreword: The value of security
Giuseppe de Vergottini
Preface
Paola Picicacchia
Part 1: National security and rule of law
Chapter 1: The proliferation of global insecurities and the transformation of the security concept among complex interconnections of responsibilities and impacts on the rule of law
Paola Piciacchia
Chapter 2: Constitutional dimensions of security and protection of fundamental rights
Ludovica Durst
Chapter 3: Emergency situations and source of law: Stress test for forms of state and forms of government
Marina Calamo Specchia
Chapter 4: The courts' judicial review of the declaration and extension of a state of emergency in comparative perspective
Emanuele Gabriele
Chapter 5: How to regulate states of emergency in the Italian Constitution
Stefano Ceccanti and Giuliaserena Stegher
Part II. Security, institutional actors and procedures: Some meaningful experiences
Chapter 6: The evolution of the role of the Italian Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR): A model of parliamentary oversight to emulate
Salvatore Curreri
Chapter 7: French "Defence and National Security Council" and Fifth Republic president's role in defence policy
Rino Casella
Chapter 8: Democratic control over defence policies in Latin America
Rosa Iannaccone
Chapter 9: Old and new routes for evading parliamentary approval of defence and security agreements: Executive and non-binding agreements in recent cases
Andrea Fiorentino
Part III. New issues in European security and defence policy
Chapter 10: The emerging challenges of the European Union defence policy: Some considerations on the interconnection between space and defence
Francesco Battaglia
Chapter 11: The first twenty years of the European Defence Agency: Assessment, challenges and prospects
Enrico Campelli and Francesco Clementi
Chapter 12: Security in the European Schengen Area: Critical issues concerning the closure of internal borders
Laura Fabiano
Chapter 13: National security and the protection of companies carrying out activities of strategic importance in the framework of the European Regulation 2019/452
Maria Vittoria Ferroni
Part IV. National security threats and technology
Chapter 14: National security and social media: The case of TikTok
Giulia Caravale
Chapter 15: Searching for a holistic response to hybrid threats: The case of HDTs in military intelligence
Ciro Sbailò
Chapter 16: The challenges of biometric data in the field of security: A comparative perspective
Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani
Biography
Paola Piciacchia is an Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Department of Political Science (DISP), Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Constitutional Systems and Public Security and Parliaments and governments in contemporary democracies and relations with the EU.
