Hannah Arendt’s experiences of exile, from Nazi Germany to the U.S., shaped her reflections on statelessness, belonging, and the limits of the nation-state. In this essay, Anna Argirò explores Arendt's urgent call to rethink human rights, citizenship, and politics beyond borders. In a world of walls and displacement, her thought invites us to imagine a political community grounded not in exclusion, but in plurality, responsibility, and shared humanity.

In this opening essay of our recent issue on Violence, Brad Evans argues that "violence of disappearance" is the most extreme and visible form state sovereignty and power takes in contemporary times. This kind of violence often translates into the literal removal and destruction of actual human bodies, irrespective of age and gender, but always only those belonging to particular races, ethnicities or ideologies, by means of genocide, abductions, forced migrations and (un)civi