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GNOSIS - n. 1/2007
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Internet - Intelligence
The spectre of a cyberwar
edited by Umberto RAPETTO e Roberto DI NUNZIO
 Answers by: Andrea APARO, Robero DI NUNZIO, Corrado GIUSTOZZI, Vincenzo MEROLA, Ferrante PIERANTONI e Roberto VACCA
 The technological evolution, as many times mentioned in Gnosis, has deeply affected the development of the Intelligence: uprooting methodologies and traditions, sidelining those unable to change with the times, thwarting titanic efforts, and making the most qualified professionalism obsolete.
Editorial
Cronology of Terrorism
The reforms
The relaunching of a complex system
Enrico MICHELI - Carlo JEAN
 We close the space dedicated to reflections and in-depth analyses on the Reform of our Intelligence Division with the precious contributions of both the Under-Secretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Honourable Enrico Micheli, Delegated Authority for the security of the Republic, and General Carlo Jean.
INTERVIEW

The new ‘needs of security’
the Chief of Police, Antonio Manganelli speaks
 edited by Pio MARCONI
 The fear of crime, the sentiments of insecurity continue to penetrate the Italian society. Common experience and surveys confirm this: not only those surveys effected in occasion of recurring painful events. Millions of pages have interpreted these sentiments. Is the new fear the fruit of a transformation of social relations? The effect of the disintegration of certainty with regard to the Welfare system crisis?
Sovereign Funds and national sovereignty articolo redazionale
In these last years, certain Governments, in particular, in the emerging Countries, have exercised, in a progressively growing manner, the role of investor on the international financial markets, constituted in the form of “Sovereign Funds of Investment”, administered separately from the State Budget, usually through private management, and financed from income deriving from the management of natural resources, from tax surplus or from international reserves.
Pakistan, between jihad and Afghan temptations
 Renzo GUOLO
 This precious contribution photographs the situation in which Pakistan has precipitated since the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The author, beyond examining the different factors which contributed to such a serious, even though not sudden, evolvement of events, underlines the dangerous “radicalization of the Pakistan Islamic panorama” that is taking place.
The complete version of issue no. 2/2011 will be online in February 2012.