ALESSANDRA RUSSO, PhD

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1 ALESSANDRA RUSSO, PhD UNIVERSITY EDUCATION January 2012 September 2015: PhD (with Honors) in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability Research Area: Conflict and political systems in international relations Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa Thesis: Regions in Transition: Multiple Processes of Polity-Building in the Former Soviet Area PhD supervisor: Francesco Strazzari Co-supervisor (period abroad): Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford) Internal members of the PhD examining committee: Barbara Henry; Serena Giusti; Alberto Pirni External member of the PhD examining committee: Rick Fawn (University of St. Andrews) April 2008 April 2011: MA (with Honors) in International Relations and European Studies Grade: Magna Cum Laude University of Florence September 2004 April 2008: BSc (with Honors) in International Studies Grade: Magna Cum Laude University of Florence PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS December ongoing: Post-Doctoral Researcher - Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa Project Regional Orders and Governance: Norms, Practices and Policies Across the Post-Soviet Space ; Member of the Research Group on Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia (RES/EAST); Tutor for the PhD Program in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE June 2015: Visiting Researcher - Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University (Chisinau) October 2014 March 2015: Visiting PhD Fellow Freie Universität Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science October 2013 June 2014: Department Visiting Doctoral Student University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations March April 2014: Visiting Researcher American University of Central Asia (Bishkek), Central Asian Studies Institute April June 2013: Visiting Researcher Center for Social Sciences (Tbilisi), Foreign Policy and Security Research Program October December 2012: Department Visiting Doctoral Student University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations 1

2 OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Freie Universität Berlin (November 2014 March 2015): Coding of documents of Commonwealth of Independent States and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood ) PUBLICATIONS: Articles o Mercato delle armi, guerre, migrazioni (2015). Il Mulino. Rivista bimestrale di cultura ed di politica 6/2015 (Anno LXIV - Numero 482): (doi: /81307) o Armi e armamenti: mercato in crescita, immune dalla crisi (2015). In AAVV. Cibo di Guerra. 5^ Rapporto di Ricerca sui Conflitti Dimenticati (a cura di Caritas Italiana), Bologna: Il Mulino, pp o A Potemkin Village? Governance Transfer by the CIS (2015). In: Tanja A. Börzel and Vera van Hüllen (eds.) Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Chapter 8) o Democratic diffusion failures or successful authoritarian protection? Central Asian undeclared policies vis-à-vis the Arab Spring (2014). Italian Political Science Review XLIV (3): (co-authored with Elisa Piras, ISSN: ) o US mainland, EU archipelago? Convergence and divergence on transnational organised crime (2014). European Security 23(4): (co-authored with Francesco Strazzari, ISSN: , doi: / ) o Critical Response to An Armenian Village in Turkey: An Identity Squeezed Between Inherited Memories and Future Prospects (2014), Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics 2(2): o Sicurezza energetica eurasiatica e cooperazione regionale. Informazioni della Difesa S6/2013: (ISSN: ) o Il Mercato Internazionale delle Armi (2012). In: Paolo Beccegato, Walter Nanni, Francesco Strazzari (ed.) Mercati di Guerra. Rapporto di Ricerca su Finanza, Povertà, Ambiente e Conflitti Dimenticati. Bologna: Il Mulino, pp (ISBN: ) o Un bicchiere (di amaro) mezzo pieno. Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli 107(2): (ISSN: ) o Asia centrale: NATO nell'est vs. NATO dell'est?. Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli 105(4): (ISSN: ) Articles under review/in preparation/accepted for publication o Regional Models of Security Governance in the Former Soviet Space: a Research Agenda (forthcoming), in Proceedings of the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, 7-10 April 2015 o The Regional Grid Points: Institutional Overlaps between OSCE, COE, CIS and SCO (coauthored with Andrea Gawrich; submitted in special issue for Central Asian Survey) o A regional house of cards? Discursive and imaginative processes of region-building within and around Georgia (submitted to Caucasus Social Science Review) 2

3 o Regional Governance in the Caucasus: Encounters between International Actors and Local Sources of Informal Practices (proposed for special issue Informality and symbolic power in the Caucasus in Caucasus Survey) o Populist Strategic Alliances: Patterns of Cooperation among Post-Soviet States (coauthored with Sorina Cristina Soare) o Buffer areas as spaces of connections and identification: the centrality of regional borderlands in the Sahara and the Caucasus (co-authored with Luca Raineri) o Bolstering non-democracies? Regional cooperation, ontological security and authoritarian legitimacy in Eurasia (co-authored with Edward Stoddard) o Counter-crime strategies, legitimacy, and ontological security: views from Eurasia (coauthored with Edward Stoddard) Selected Online Articles o Cause of Death: Research o Walking between Praxis and Practices o Practice If You Dare. How do films end? How does the 'practice turn' in IR end? A few impractical and impertinent considerations o The Ivory Tower under Siege: the Ultimate Frontier of Governmentality o Why Grounded Theory is not for emotional PhD students o Algorithmic sovereignty in a post-preemptive world (review of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, by Louise Amoore) more on-line articles: Reports o Ricerca IAO CSSI: Attori e Progetti della Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo - Pilastro degli attori economici Settore imprenditoriale, working report for the Centre of Strategic and International Studies, Florence, 2012 o Vingt ans de transition : sélection des principaux indicateurs socio-économiques des pays d Europe centrale et orientale, working report for the Centre d'étude de la vie politique, Brussels, 2009 TEACHING ACTIVITIES Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa (November 2015): Lecture on Understanding Regional Security (for MA students, Integrated Graduate Programme in International Studies and Transnational Governance, Course of Geopolitics and Global Governance in the European Context ) Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa (October 2015): Classes of International Relations: State of the Art (for PhD students) Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa (May June 2015): Classes of Strategic Studies and Security Studies (for graduate students) 3

4 University of Florence (October ): cultore della materia in International Relations and member of exam committee (BA Political Science, Course International Relations ) Consules.org, Rome Florence Padua New York (January April 2013): International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Country Profiles, Position Papers Writing for the project Model United Nations Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa and University of Florence (January 2012 June 2012): Support to the didactic activity for the undergraduate classes of International Relations (seminars, tutorial sessions) AWARDS AND GRANTS Freie Universität Berlin (October 2014 March 2015): Completion Grant - Research College The Transformative Power of Europe International Studies Association (February 2015): Travel Grant for ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans Erasmus Consortia Placement (October 2013 June 2014): Mobility Scholarship Center for Social Sciences (April 2013 June 2013): Scholarship International Studies Association (April 2013): Travel Grant for ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa (January 2012 January 2015): PhD Scholarship Guido Galli Dissertation Prize (June 2012): Special Mention Daniele Vernon De Mars Dissertation Prize (May 2012): Special Mention INTERNSHIPS & TRAININGS International Studies Association, New Orleans (February 2015): Career Course Introduction to Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in International Affairs Research European University Institute, Florence (October 2013): Academy of Global Governance Executive Training Seminar: Comparing Regional Integration Institutions: America, Africa, and Asia European University Institute, Florence (October 2012): Academy of Global Governance Executive Training Seminar: Regional Integration Beyond the European Experience: Latin America and Asia Social Science Research Council, Eurasia Program (February June 2013): Webinar Series on Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasia Studies Central European University, Budapest (July 2012): Summer School: Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Governance in Asia, Africa and the Americas and the Effects on the World Order Centre of Strategic and International Studies, Florence (May 2011 January 2012): Research Internship Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen (July 2011): Asian Dynamics Initiative Summer School: History, Identity and Religion in Central Eurasia 4

5 Galatasaray Universitesi, Istanbul (March 2010): Intensive Programme EurDemos ( De l Europe des Empires à l Empire Européen? and Model Euragora ) CEVIPOL (Centre d'étude de la vie politique), Brussels (March June 2009): Research Internship International Forum Model G8, San Petersburg (April 2006): Member of Italian delegation Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Florence: Summer Schools in Eastern European Studies about European Enlargement (September 2005), Balkans (September 2006), Black Sea (September 2007) PRESENTATIONS European International Studies Association, Giardini Naxos (September 2015): Pan-European Conference on International Relations Higher School of Economics, Moscow (April 2015): FUB-HSE Seminar Formality vs Informality Interaction: Reflection in Institutions and Practices (invited speaker) International Studies Association, New Orleans (February 2015): ISA Annual Convention Global IR and Regional Worlds: A New Agenda for International Studies 7 th GCSP-OSCE Academy-NUPI Conference, Issyk-Kul (September 2014): The Helsinki Final Act at 40: Reflections and Prescriptions vis-à-vis the OSCE in Eurasia (invited speaker) European Consortium for Political Research, University of Glasgow (September 2014): ECPR General Conference European International Studies Association, Izmir (May 2014): European Workshops in International Studies Freie Universität Berlin, Kolleg-Forschergruppe The transformative power of Europe (May 2014): Workshop Dealing with Overlapping Regionalism: Complementary or Competitive Strategies? University of Oxford, Russian and East European Studies Centre (May 2014): Conference Georgia in the Context of Europeanisation King's College London (October 2013): Research Workshop Stepping Out of The New Great Game Narrative: Re-Joining Central Asia and International Relations University of Florence (September 2013): XXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges (June 2013): ISA CISS Joint Conference with UNU-CRIS Cooperation, Integration and Alliances: Regional and Global Perspectives, Challenges and Solutions Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi (May 2013): IR Doctoral Seminar Post-Soviet Regionalism: «such stuff as dreams are made on»? International Studies Association, San Francisco (April 2013): ISA Annual Convention The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dimensions University of Trento - Jean Monnet Centre and Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Research Center on War, Peace and International Change (July 2012): National Conference of the Standing Group in International Relations of the Italian Political Science Association 5

6 University of Palermo (September 2011): XXV Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association University of Warwick - Politics & International Studies Department and Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization (June 2010): 3rd Annual Graduate Conference in Security Studies Security Studies as a Critique 6