ALESSANDRA RUSSO, PhD

ALESSANDRA RUSSO, PhD

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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

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December 2015 - 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

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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

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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”)

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o Mercato delle armi, guerre, migrazioni (2015). Il Mulino. Rivista bimestrale di cultura ed di politica 6/2015 (Anno LXIV - Numero 482): 1039-1045 (doi: 10.1402/81307)

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. 30-33.

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): 247-265 (co-authored with Elisa Piras, ISSN: 0048-8402)

o US mainland, EU archipelago? Convergence and divergence on transnational organised crime (2014). European Security 23(4): 529-545 (co-authored with Francesco Strazzari, ISSN: 0966-2839, doi: 10.1080/09662839.2014.933207)

o Critical Response to “An Armenian Village in Turkey: An Identity Squeezed Between Inherited Memories and Future Prospects” (2014), Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics 2(2): 30-31

o Sicurezza energetica eurasiatica e cooperazione regionale. Informazioni della Difesa S6/2013: 154-164 (ISSN: 2036-9786)

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. 54-56 (ISBN: 9788815240811)

o Un bicchiere (di amaro) mezzo pieno. Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli 107(2): 39-42 (ISSN: 1123-9700)

o Asia centrale: NATO nell'Est vs. NATO dell'EST?. Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli 105(4): 114-115 (ISSN: 1123-9700)

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 (co-authored with Andrea Gawrich; submitted in special issue for Central Asian Survey) o A regional house…of cards? Discursive and imaginative processes of region-building

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 (co-authored 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 (co-authored with Edward Stoddard)

Selected Online Articles www.security-praxis.eu 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:

 www.altd.it/redazione/a-russo

 www.affarinternazionali.it 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

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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 2015 - June 2015): Classes of Strategic Studies and Security Studies (for graduate students)

University of Florence (October 2013 - ): “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)

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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

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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 2012 - 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

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)

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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”

7th _{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

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”