Emmanuel Guerisoli, Author at Public Seminar

History

The Vision of Hegemony Driving Israel’s Regional Policy

From “periphery doctrine” to open domination

April 28, 2025 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Over a long twentieth century of regional tussles, Israel’s local foreign policy focus has shifted from preventing the emergence of a regional hegemon toward a campaign for outright domination. The strategy has shattered the Middle East’s fragile and imperfect status quo, the stability of which was closely connected to the ...

The Vision of Hegemony Driving Israel’s Regional Policy

Migration

A Brief History of Travel Bans

What could follow a Trump victory in November?

October 25, 2024 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump promised retribution for the San Bernardino Isis attack in December 2015: he would enact a ban prohibiting the entry of Muslims into the country. It was, unfortunately, one of the campaign promises he made good on. In late January 2017, President Trump signed ...

Media

Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, and New Media

Plan Andinia and Anti-Semitism in Argentina

October 12, 2019 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Cuneo’s oral manifesto went viral across multiple platforms, such as What’s App, Facebook, YouTube, and endless email chains, sparking a public debate over Argentinean Jews’ sacred and exclusive loyalty towards Israel. Pro-Cuneo posts offered many cases of public figures, all of them Jewish, that were Mossad double agents or involved ...

Feature

The Abortion Debate in Argentina

Or how men, priests, and the ignorant subjugate women

September 17, 2018 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

In the very early hours of August 9, the Argentinean Senate missed a historic opportunity to become the first Catholic-majoritarian country in the global south to legalize voluntary abortion. Instead, the upper chamber’s total rejection of abortion revealed three dynamics that prevent women from acquiring full citizenship rights, and which ...

Feature

The New-Old Terror Wave in Europe (Part 3)

A Comparison of European Terrorism Cycles

September 15, 2017 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Suicide bombers have, in a way, replaced car bombs or improvised explosive devices (IED) by themselves. The use of this tactic is also a reaction to learned experience by European security agencies. Car bombing dominated the previous wave in the United Kingdom, Spain, and France. This made police forces alert ...

Feature

The New-Old Terror Wave in Europe (Part 2)

A Comparison of European Terrorism Cycles

September 13, 2017 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

It seems, then, that Europe is currently in a new expansionist phase of this latest cycle of terror. Putting aside the isolated case of the El Descanso restaurant bombing in Madrid in 1985 by the Lebanese Islamic Jihad, Jihadi violence reached Europe in late 1994 when the Armed Islamic Group ...

Feature

The New-Old Terror Wave in Europe (Part 1)

A Comparison of European Terrorism Cycles

September 12, 2017 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Terrorism, understood as non-state political violence that inflicts physical harm on people and property outside of combat or occupied regions with the aim to frighten society and force a state to enact or change certain policies[1], is far from being a new phenomenon in Europe. In fact, it has been ...

It’s Time to Take Trump Seriously

Why we underestimated him, and how we can learn

November 16, 2016 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Let me start by apologizing. The following is a raw reaction to the election results. I still find it difficult to digest that Donald Trump has become President. Even more so considering the fact that since I thought he was going to be elected, I had been sharing my concerns ...

Feature

20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

July 18, 2016 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

It seems that June 23rd 2016 has become a new “zero hour” moment in European history, though I doubt it will go down in history as one next to November 9th 1989 or May 8th 1945. ...

20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

Uncategorized

Russia’s Game in Syria

Security, geopolitics, and a balance of powers

October 9, 2015 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

On Wednesday September 30, the Russian Federation started a bombing campaign in Syria with one objective in mind: the stabilization of the country and the survival of Assad’s regime. This action is very relevant for many reasons, but among them is the fact that it is historical. This presents Russia’s ...

Education

Graduate Education and Health Insurance

A fundamental challenge at the New School for Social Research

August 27, 2014 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Last year, NSSR and the University Administration announced a new fellowship initiative for NSSR students. The plan consisted on full scholarships for Ph.D. students that included full tuition and a $20,000 yearly stipend for up to three to five years of study. Dean’s Fellowships were also maintained. The scholarships ...