Draft:Ciro Sbailò

Ciro Sbailò born in Ottaviano, Italy, on 29 February 1960 is an Italian academic, philosopher, and jurist.

Biography
Trained in philosophy, he undertook legal studies at the end of the 1980s at the suggestion of Luigi Pareyson. , his teacher. He has studied in depth the crisis of contemporary democracies, starting with the Weimar republic , and the political systems of the Mediterranean Islamic world , focusing in particular on the relationship between modernization and constitutional instability. He has been several times a consultant to Parliament and the Government on constitutional reforms, geopolitical national affairs and security and economic reforms. Ciro Sbailò is a full professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of International Studies of Rome (UNINT), directs the master's degree course in Investigation, Crime and International Security and the PhD in Global Studies & Innovation. He founded the GEODI-Geopolitics, Law & Data Analysis study center. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Med-Or Foundation of Leonardo S.p.A.

Academic thinking
Ciro Sbailò argues that the most important geopolitical challenge Western democracies will have to face in the coming decades  it will not be their crisis, but the entropic drift of authoritarian regimes. According to Sbailò, the "destiny" of exponential development of Technology, which has its roots in ancient Greek thought, does not tolerate ideological rigidities and requires ever greater integration of legal systems and an infinite development of the rule of law (conceived not as a simple phenomenon, but as the original structure of Western civilization : in this key he reinterprets some classical thinkers such as Parmenides , Plato and Hans Kelsen . Authoritarian regimes are increasingly faced with the alternative between self-reform , which they experience as self-dissolution , or increasingly aggressive and reckless politics, both internally and externally . This should prompt Western countries to engage in greater military and intelligence cooperation , not only to deter military attacks but also to encourage democratic and reformist elites living in authoritarian regimes. In particular, according to the author, the European Union should equip itself with its military defense and strengthen intelligence cooperation, following NATO. To do this, courageous and "asymmetrical" political choices should be taken (such as the military cooperation agreements between Germany and France or between France and Germany), outpacing the decision-making mechanisms in force, forcing Community law to adapt to the political will ; according to Sbailò, this political technique is historically the basis of all the great political taking place in Europe, starting from Middle Age. The growing gap between technology and politics also affects Europe and the United States and is one of the causes of neo-populism and neo-sovereignism

Works

 * EUROPE’S CALL TO ARMS. Philosophical Roots and Public Law Profiles of the Confrontation with the Monster of the 21st Century: Westernization without Democratization, Nomos (2023). ISBN 978-3-7560-0527-7
 * Diritto pubblico dell'Islam Mediterraneo. Linee evolutive degli ordinamenti nordafricani contemporanei: Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libia, Egitto, seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata, CEDAM-WOLTERS KLUWER (2022). ISBN 9788813380274
 * Difesa europea. La posta in gioco, Unint University Press (2022). ISBN 1281079014
 * Democrazia in emergenza. Perché viviamo in un perenne stato d'eccezione, Paesi Edizioni (2021). ISBN 979-1280159557
 * Dall'11 settembre all'emergenza Covid-19: sicurezza nell'età della bebelarchia (2001-2021), Editoriale Scientifica (2021). ISBN 1259760448
 * Sul sentiero della notte – La πόλις – Introduzione alle imminenti sfide del diritto pubblico, Ed. PACINI EDITORE SPA (2020). ISBN 978-8833792422
 * I Diritti di Dio. Le Cinque sfide dell'Islam all'Occidente, Ed. Libreria universitaria (2017); ISBN 978-8862927680;
 * Diritto pubblico dell’Islam mediterraneo. Linee evolutive degli ordinamenti nordafricani contemporanei: Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libia, Egitto. Ed. CEDAM (2015). ISBN 978-8813357061;
 * Diritto pubblico dell’Islam mediterraneo. Linee evolutive degli ordinamenti nordafricani contemporanei: Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libia, Egitto. Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata. Ed. CEDAM (2022). ISBN 978-8813380274;
 * Principi sciaratici e organizzazione dello spazio pubblico nel mondo islamico. Il caso egiziano. Ed. CEDAM (2012). ISBN 978-8813315726;
 * Giustizia e costituzione. Note sulla transizione italiana, Ed. Euno (2011). ISBN 978-8897085706;
 * Il governo della Mezzaluna. Saggi sul diritto islamico. Ed. Euno (2010). ISBN 978-8897085010;
 * La rappresentanza mite. Le Seconde Camere e il futuro della democrazia parlamentare. Ed. Kore University Press (2009). ISBN 978-8881374151
 * Weimar. Un laboratorio per il costituzionalismo europeo. Scienza giuridica e crisi dei valori occidentali. Ed. Kore University Press (2007). ISBN 978-8881372829