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State's check
to the assets of organized crime
by Emanuela C. DEL RE
 Answers by: Enzo CALABRIA, Alberto CISTERNA, Antonio MARUCCIA, Luciano SCALETTARI
 The confiscation of the assets of the mafia is a success story and, above all, the destination of these assets to social uses. To think that on land belonging to mafia cosche (bands) families known as Brusca, Mammoliti, Piromalli, Molè and many others, now rise headquarters of associations employed in assisting productive activities....
Editorial
Cronology of Terrorism
INTERVIEW

Valentina COLOMBO
Professor of Geopolitics of the Islamic world,
at the European University of Rome

Islam in Italy: in search of a balance
between integration and tradition
  articolo redazionale
 In our global and globalized world, now composed of truly variegated, multicultural and ethnically mixed groups, where in the schools, homes, shops, on the streets, different languages are spoken and where, above all, the young people are in search of an identity which is not only the product of different cultural fragments or an undefined puzzle composed of mad weavings, the diffusion of a new sentiment of belonging is important, which does not deny the roots with the past, but which is the precious experience of a serene growth towards a conscious future. The risk of ‘homegrown’ terrorism could become the desperate response to the search for unobtainable values and beliefs in everyday life, made up of dissimilarities and the sensation of being ‘out of place’...
Computer data storage
The paper-trail in the fight against recycling
 by Ranieri RAZZANTE
 The debate on the usefulness and timeliness of the safeguards that our System poses for the protection and prevention of money-laundering is still alive and titillating. As for any crime, also for the release of illegally accumulated wealth into the circuit of the legal economy, one must weigh, more than those who are guilty or participants, the evaluations on the justice of the punishment, the effectiveness of the means of repression, the strategies of counteraction and the various resources available. It is undoubtedly a certainty that the needs of “prevention” must prevail over the repressive ones because, indubitably, less is spent and there is a tendency to obtain more results....
When the place of confrontation is the market
Geo-economy and Intelligence - from defence to attack
 by Marco GIACONI
 Economic Intelligence has always gone hand in hand with all the other forms of Intelligence. In the majority of cases, it was considered an instrument of defence of the national economy and of penetration and knowledge of the economic initiatives of others. Marco Giaconi delineates the changes in the Economic Intelligence at the time of the global market, which has moved the operational axis; as well as the acquisition of information, it must also aim to influence and condition foreign public opinions. One could say the conquest of the hearts and minds of the target Country....
Information and comunication tecnology
A software for reading intelligence
 by Antonio TETI
 Until a few decades ago, the creation of a device able to read the human mind could represent only an interesting proposal for the script of a science fiction film, but after only a few years, it takes the form of yet another milestone in the informatics technologies. A new era opens, based on the advent of instruments and methodologies able to “interpret” the communicative mechanisms and human thought- This, which once seemed an impossible dream, today can be considered as a real objective within the reach of man....
The complete version of issue no. 2/2011 will be online in February 2012.