About us

Since a few years it has been established Jura Gentium - Center for Philosophy of international law and global politics. The Center Jura Gentium is mainly aimed at promoting theoretical reflections on the overall transformations affecting the organization and role of international law as a result of both information society and globalization, as well as of the repercussions of these phenomena on international relations.

The Center is also interested in investigating the wider topic of 'global politics', spanning all of cultural, political, economic and military mechanisms affected by international power and its distribution on world scale; furthermore, the Center pays attention on those social conflicts and resistance movements turning out of globalisation and shaping it from below with widespread forms of social.

Our website encompasses many sections focused on themes like 'war, right and global order', 'the theory of subjective rights', 'plural Islam', 'women, rights and global politics', 'the question of Palestine', 'right and politics in postcolonial Asia', 'Rule of Law and human rights in Latin America' ; there is also a book review section sketching the most relevant titles recently published by both the Italian and the international publishers.

Within this wider number of columns, it is going to start a new section devoted to 'cinema and globalisation'. We would really like to interwave all the themes the Center is already touching upon with what the cinema screen offers.

The movie industry, highly influenced by a market oriented information industry, is even more and more getting harder with regard to globalisation-related issues: Italy is problably one of the most advanced and worst examples of this trend leading to hit culture and the arts. The most commercial movies are often - and indeed giultily - not interested in global politics.

Nonetheless, there are many good movies played in the smaller cinema circuits or presented at outstanding cinema festivals whose distribution across the movie market is not as good as it should be to reach the wider public. In this case we are in the face of movies whose understanding of today's world, and the way they communicate it is as good as that offered by books, magazines and newspapers.

Therefore, in this new section we will try to understand and portray these kind of movies by reviewing movies and film festivals whose topics are close to the themes which Jura Gentium is concerned with. We will also carry out interviews, informative reports and monographs which a web site - so versatile - let us do so easily. Particularly, We're thinking about dossier like those by the french-german tv channel 'Arte'.

However, we do not want to build up a website just focused on movies; on the contrary, our purpose is to explore Jura Gentium's themes of interests through movies and their perspective. In the beginning, our column will be devided into seven sections: 'society and politics', 'economics and globalisation', 'right and rights', 'cultural pluralism', 'penal policies', 'migrations', 'war'. They are the same seven sections of our book review column.

What we committ to in order to grant the widest possible access to this initiative and its developments is a transnational and multilinguistic approach: this is a necessary approach due to the international context framing the movie industry and its products. Therefore, we will do our best to translate as many articles published in this new section as the resources of our center will let us do.