Curriculum Vitae Born in Bologna 02/03/1982 andrea.betti1909@gmail.com Permanent Address Via Zamboni, 53 40126 Bologna, Italy Office Address School of International Studies- Via Verdi, 10 38100 Trento (Italy) CURRENT POSITION: Phd candidate, School of International Studies, University of Trento (Italy) Title of the Dissertation: Legitimate and Contested: The Impact of International Norms on Great Powers (Expected completion September 2011) 2007 current EDUCATION: Laurea Specialistica (MA) in International Relations, University of Bologna Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude Final dissertation: The critical liberalism of Michael Walzer. Supervisors: Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi and Prof. David William Ellwood 2004-2006 Laurea Triennale (BA) in Political Science, University of Bologna Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude Final Dissertation: The Exceptional Nation. America and American Exceptionalism
Supervisor: Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi 2001-2004 Diploma in Classical Studies at Liceo Ginnasio Statale Luigi Galvani in Bologna Final Grade: 94/100 1996-2001 EXPERIENCES ABROAD ESL student at New York University Summer 2000 Two month internship in Tanzania via Centro Studi Donati, association for international cooperation July/August2002 10 months as an exchange student at University of California, Los Angeles within the Education Abroad Program provided by University of Bologna. Attended several undergraduate and graduate classes such as Foreign Relations of the United States, Theory of Empires, International Relations of the Middle East, Ancient Political Thought, International Political Economy September 2005/July 2006 Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster 15 March-15July 2009 Graduate Fellow at the University of California, Washington, DC Center (UCDC) October 2009-February 2010 Graduate Fellow at the University of California, Washington, DC Center (UCDC) September-November 2010 FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Strong command of spoken and written English Good knowledge of spoken and read Spanish Basic knowledge of French Passive knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek INFORMATIC SKILLS Strong command of Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Internet. Strong command of Word and Powerpoint for Macintosh OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES Winner of a Scholarship of 3000 euros with Education Abroad Program (of the University of California) in order to spend one academic year as an exchange student at University of California, Los Angeles (2005/2006) Winner of a scholarship of 1000 euros for a paper on political philosophy about Liberalism and Libertarianism at Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Torino, Italy (September 2005) Summer School provided by Centro Interuniversitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana (CISPEA) (Summer 2005) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theory of international relations with a particular focus on the study of international norms, humanitarian intervention, international criminal responsibility, human rights enforcement, and domestic determinants of foreign policy. PUBLICATIONS -Review article of Massimo Donini, Michele Papa, Diritto penale del nemico. Un dibattito internazionale, Milano, Giuffre', 2007 In Revue de Science Criminelle et de droit pénale comparé avril/juin, 2008, No.2, pp. 488-490. -Review article of Alessandro Gamberini, Renzo Orlandi, Delitto politico e diritto penale del nemico, Bologna, Monduzzi, 2007, In Reveu de Science Criminelle et de droit
pénale comparé avril/juin, 2008, No.2, pp.490-492. - Criminal Law of the Enemy and International Criminal Justice: A Challenge for International Criminal Justice Ius 17 No. 1 (2009). - For Us or for Them? Dilemmas of Intervention in International Politics. Book Review of Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds.), National Interest and International Solidarity: Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2008), forthcoming on Millennium Journal of International Studies Vol. 38 No. 1 (August 2009). -"Making Sense of Norms and Ethics in a Decentralised System", Review Essay of Mervyn Frost, "Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom, and International Relations" (London and NY: Routledge, 2009); Thomas Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007) and Benjamin N. Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 4, No. 1, (March 2010): 91-100. PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES -"Criminal Law of the Enemy and International Criminal Justice: A Challenge for International Studies", paper presented at the Faculty of Law at University of Bologna, 13/05/08. - Legitimate and Contested: The Impact of International Norms on Great Powers, seminar held at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 23 April 2009, CSD Seminars Series. - Legitimate and Contested: The Impact of International Norms on Great Powers, paper presented at the 2 nd Graduate Conference of the Societa Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), Gargnano (Brescia), 29 June/1 July 2009. - Invoking Humanity: The UK and NATO Intervention in Kosovo, paper presented at the 3 rd ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research Conference) Conference, Dublin City University, Dublin, 30 August-1September 2010. - Invoking International Justice: The UK and the Process of Ratification of the ICC Treaty, paper to be presented at the International Studies Association-West, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 24-25 September 2010.
OTHER COLLABORATIONS Translation of subtitles from English into Italian of Devdas, movies projected by the Movie Festival Verso Nuove Culture, Provincia Autonoma Bolzano, October 2007. Translation from Italian into English of the Website of the School of International Studies, Trento, November 2007. Translation of subtitles from English into Italian of La Vergine e il Satiro. Democrazia e Mercato, official documentary of the Festival dell Economia, organized by the Autonomy Province of Trento, 2008. Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman for La Vergine e il Satiro official documentary of the Festival dell Economia, TRento, June 2008. Interview with Nobel Laureate James Heckman for the official television of the Festival dell Economia, Trento, 2009. Translation of subtitles from Italian into English of C e pane per i tuoi denti, documentary presented at the Trento Film Festival della Montagna, 2009.