F
RANCESCO
S
TRAZZARI
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 - 56127 Pisa (Italia) tel. +39 050 88.31.11 - fax +39 050 88.32.25 E-mail f.strazzari@sssup.it Web: www.francescostrazzari.com Born: 24 April 1970
Current position
♦ Associate Professor of Political Science – International Relations (professore associato confermato, settore scientifico disciplinare SPS/04) Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
Previous Academic Positions
♦ 2005-2008 - Senior Lecturer in International Relations (Universitair Docent 1, with tenure). Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Political Science.
♦ 2004-2005, ‘Professore a Contratto’
Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
♦ 2001-2005, Academic coordinator and lecturer – Master in Relazioni Internazionali (secondo livello), - Università di Bologna. Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia,
♦ 2003-2004, Research fellow – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
Academic Titles
1997-2003
European University Institute – EUI – Fiesole
Ph.D. Department of Social and Political Sciences 1996-97
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs - NPSIA.
Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1995-96
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies – SAIS. The Johns Hopkins University - Bologna Center, Italy.
Post-Graduate Diploma in International Relations.. 1989-94
University of Bologna
International conferences: main recent contributions
“Fire under the sand: shadow globalization and the ‘second Tuareg rebellion’ in the Western Sahel.” - ABRI-ISA Conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 22-24, 2009
“The (in)visible hand on the monopoly of force: security sector reform and the transformation of the state in the post-war Balkan region.” WISC-ISA Second Global International Studies Conference, WISC, Ljubljana, 23-25 July 2008,. “The liminal and the limes: the EU and ethnonationalism in the Danubian region and in the Western Balkans.” ECPR General Conference, Pisa, 8-10 September 2007.
“Albanian nationalism between the countryside and the city.” Beyond the Nation?Critical reflections on nationalism in times of crisis. Queens University, Belfast, 14-15 September 2007.
“Trans-Albanian vs Panalbanian Spaces: The Urban Dimension of the Albanian Question.” ASN Conference on Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in The Balkans and Its Regional Context. Belgrade, September 28 – 30, 2006
“Salvaging ‘Development’: ‘Postwar Reconstruction’ and Adjustments to Globalization.” Local processes and resources for post-conflict rebuilding. Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris). Amsterdam, 26-27 June 2006.
“Behind the Fog of War: the ‘Balkan Route’ to State Making”, Fourth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting – Montecatini, 19-23 March 2003.
“Endemic Violence, Crime, and Instability? Possibilities for Rewriting the Historical Script of Southeastern Europe” – talk at Harriman Institute at Columbia University - 25 February 2003.
Main recent publications
Notte Balcanica: Guerre, Crimine, Stati Falliti alle Soglie d'Europa, Bologna: Il Mulino (Contemporanea), 2008. Guerre alla Finestra. Rapporto di Ricerca su Conflitti Dimenticati, Guerre Infinite e Terrorismo Internazionale (Co-editor and author) - Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
La Pace Intrattabile. Kosovo 1999-2000: Una Radiografia del Dopo-Bombe, Asterios, Trieste, 2000 (Editor and author. Translated as Kosovo: The Intractable Peace by EUI-Robert Schuman Center, on-line access 2001-2004) “The Private Security Industry in the Post-War Balkans: a Blank in Security Sector Reform Strategies," (with S. Tholens). In G. Giacomello and C. R. Nation (eds.), Security in the West: Evolution of a Concept, Milan: Vita e Pensiero (and Cornell Univ. Press), 2009, pp. 134-139.
“Guerre, conflitti ambientali e crisi umanitarie complesse” (with L. Fontana). In Caritas Italiana, Nell’Occhio del Ciclone. Rapporto di ricerca su ambiente e povertà, emergenze e conflitti dimenticati, Bologna: il Mulino, 2009.
“Pan-Albanian vs Trans-Albanian Spaces: The Urban Dimension of the Albanian Question,” Southeastern Europe, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009, pp. 77-99.
“L’Oeuvre au Noir: The Shadow Economy of Kosovo’s Independence,” International Peacekeeping, Vol. 15, n. 2, 2008, pp. 155-170.
“Sustainable Peace Between Frozen Conflicts and Messy Aftermaths: Reality and Chimeras,” HumSec Journal, No. 2, 2008, pp. 45-65..
“The Decade Horribilis. Organized Violence and Organized Crime along the Balkan Peripheries: 1991-2001,” Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2007, pp. 185-209.
Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars. A Political Economy of Intra-state Wars. London, Routledge, 2003.
“Nagorno Karabakh: from nobody’s to everybody’s intervention.” In S. Bianchini and S. Woodward, From the Adriatic to the Caucasus: Viable Dynamics of Stabilization, CEMISS Centro Militare Studi Strategici, 2003.
Teaching
♦ Undergraduate
2009-10: Teoria delle Relazioni Internazionali, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.
2008-09: Guerre e Paci nella Teoria delle Relazioni Internazionali. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. 2004-05: Storia e Istituzioni dei Paesi dell’Europa Orientale. Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna 2004-05 and 2003/2004: Conflict Analysis: I conflitti armati nell’era globale. Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna
2003-04: Interventi internazionali. Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna 2002-03: Modern Italian History. Dickinson College in Bologna
2002/03: Teoria delle Relazioni Internazionali. Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna.
♦ Postgraduate
2009-10, and 2008–09: Geopolitics and Regional Issues in Historical Perspective. MA Human Rights and Conflict Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
2009-10: Introduction to Conflict Management. Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Studies SAIS-The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center.
2009-2010, 2008-09, and 2007-2008: Shadow Globalization: Sector ilìcito global y relaciones internacionales. Master in Relazioni Internazionali Europa – America Latina” – Università di Bologna sede di Buenos Aires.
2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07, and 2005-06. International Relations Theory (advanced). MSc Political Science-IR, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2008-09, and 2007-08: International Security. Afstudeerproject/Thesis Research Seminar – MSc Political Science/IR – Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2008-09, 2007-08, 2006/07 and 2005/06, Geopolitics of European Peripheries. MSc Political Science-IR, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2007-08, 2006-07 and 2005-06, Organized crime and the challenge of postconflict reconstruction. Modules for NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, ISHSS, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2008-09, and 2007-08:L’Unione Europea, il processo di allargamento e le politiche di prossimità. Master in Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Bologna.
2007 – July, Contemporary Forms of Organized Crime, course at Summer course at ISUM (International Summer University of Macedonia) – Bitola.
2006-07: Studi strategici e di sicurezza. Master in Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Bologna 2005-06: International Organizations. MA EuroMed, CeRISDI, Palermo.
2005-06 – War and Strategic Studies. MSc Politicologie-IR, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2004-05, and 2003-04: I conflitti armati contemporanei e gli studi di sicurezza. Master in Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Bologna
2004-05, 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02, and 2000-01 – Le politiche di sicurezza dell’Unione Europea.MA Relazioni Internazionali Europa – America Latina, Università di Bologna sede di Buenos Aires
2002/03, Operazioni di pace multinazionali, Master Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Bologna.
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 e 2001, La UE e la stabilizzazione del Sud Est Europa. Module, Master in Diritti Umani e Intervento Umanitario, Università di Bologna.
2004, 2003: State making and un-making: criminal agendas, war economies and international interventions. Module, MA in Human Rights and Conflict Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.
2004-03: Integration and disintegration dynamics in the Balkans. Module, MA in European Studies, Università di Siena.
2003: Transition and War in South East Europe. Module, MA in Development and International Cooperation, CeSPI-Stoà, Ercolano.
♦ PhD seminars
2009-10: Qualitative methods for social sciences. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies 2009-10: Wars and ‘New Wars’ Economy. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. 2008-09: Introduction to Security and Strategic Studies. Sant’Anna School of Adv. Studies.
Academic Supervision
Supervision of PhD dissertations, and MSc, MA, and Research Master theses in international relations, security and strategic studies, postconflict development (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam). Experience supervising undergraduate ‘tesi di laurea’ (Università di Bologna). Experience coordinating and supervising international internships.
Main Training Activities
2009 – July 15, “The transformation of war and warfare,” The Civilian Personnel of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Operations. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.
2008 – June 30, “The Sahel Region and the Darfur crisis,” High-Level planning and Middle-level management course, CoESPU (Center of Eccellence for Stability Police Units) Vicenza.
2008 – 14 February “Contrasting organized crime and peace-support missions” - High-Level planning and Middle-level management courses, CoESPU Vicenza.
Multinational Specialized Units, Carabinieri 2nd Mobile Brigade at Livorno.
2004, 4-24 July, “The Civilian Personnel of Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations and Election Monitoring Missions”. Program manager and instructor (conflict analysis), program manager - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa 2004, 17-25, July, “Reale e (Il)legale. Laboratory on crime and illicit economies between unstable peaces and post war reconstruction”. Organizer, program manager, instructor – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.
2004, 17-26 March, “Human Rights Course” – part of the “European Commission project on training for civilian aspects of crisis management” – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa – organizer, program manager, teaching the module “New global trends in human rights practice”.
2002, April, “The Balkans,” 1st Training Course, Multinational Specialized Units, Scuola Ufficiali Carabinieri, Rome. November 2001 - “The Balkans,” 2nd° Training Course, Multinational Specialized Units, Scuola Ufficiali Carabinieri, Rome.
1999, October 1–30 – Organizer, Program coordinator, teacher and tutor at “Training in EU Affairs for Diplomats from Central and Eastern Europe” – Centro per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica – Cervia.
2003, 2002, 2001, 2000: September. Tutor at International Summer School for graduate students “Post-Communist Transition in Balkan, Central and Eastern Europe” - Centro per l’Europa Centro Orientale e Balcanica – Cervia. 1999, Pristina/Prishtinë, October 16 – special training session for UN Volunteers
Visiting fellowships
- 2003, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Affairs, CUNY, New York, Visiting fellow. - 1998, WEU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, Research fellowship.
- 1998 and 2000, Copenhagen Peace Research Institute – COPRI: Visiting researcher.
Academic affiliations
- ISA, International Studies Association;
- ‘International Research Laboratory on Conflict, Development and Global Politics’, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.
- Amsterdam School for Social Science Research(ASSR): 2005-2008. External fellow 2009- - 2002-2005: Ethnobarometer (Consiglio italiano per le Scienze Sociali)
Main ongoing research projects
2008 – 2010. Member of Steering Committee FP7 Collaborative Project MULTIPART (Multi Stake-Holder Partnership in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the European Union)
- Research coordinator for working group on socio-economic reconstruction and post-conflict development, with ASSR-UvA and LSE.
Consultancy and other activities
2009 – Profit/NonProfit: Una nuova partnership per la cooperazione allo sviluppo? – a project funded by the Fondazione Monte dei Paschi
2008, January-March – Consultation for Unità analisi e programmazione, MFA, Rome, on Kosovo and Albanian-speaking regions.
2004-2008 – External evaluation unit of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa. For Regione Toscana, DG Cooperazione e Sviluppo of the MFA: Head of monitoring unit and scientific coordination of the final assessment study on the cooperation program “Local governments as engines of development” within the program SEENET. 2004 - June-November: “The crisis of humanitarian action” – with Médecins sans Frontières Italia.
2001, June 29-30 – United Nations Headquarters - New York. Talk for UN personnel: “Criminal agendas and political dynamics in the Balkans”.
1998-2000 - European University Institute, Fiesole - Coordinator of the Research Working Groups “Central and Eastern Europe”, and “Inside-Outside the Balkans”.
1998, June-July, OSCE international supervisor for voter registration in Bosnia-Hercegovina
1996. Helsinki Citizens Assembly (Prague) and Italian Consortium of Solidarity: co-organization of Tuzla Summer University, Bosnia and Hercegovina
- Occasional articles on international and Italian national press (Balkans, Caucasus, Middle-East, Latin America); Occasional international affairs analysis for local, national and international radio and tv (Radio Rai, Radio Svizzera Italiana, BBC World, Radio Vaticana, Radio Popolare, Radio Capital, RaiNews). Analyst for the daily program “28 minuti”, Radio Rai (2003).
Languages
English - fluent
French - fluent
Spanish - fluent
Dutch – lower intermediate
Russian – beginner
Albanian – beginner
