Fabrizio Tassinari

PhD, Political Science
Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Foreign policy and EU studies
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Expertise

Fabrizio Tassinari’s current research centers on issues pertaining to European security and integration, with a particular emphasis on the politics of the wider EU neighborhood: including the Balkans, Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Russia, and the Mediterranean (Tunisia), as well as related EU policy-frameworks (e.g. enlargement, Neighborhood Policy), the role of NATO and of the United States

Selected projects and programmes

"Why Europe Fears its Neighbors": a book-length security analysis of the relations between the EU (and its member states) and neighboring countries and regions in the East, South-East and South.

"The European Experience of Democratization: 1989-2009": a comparative appraisal of democratization in Central (the new EU member statas) and Eastern (the westernmost former-Soviet republics) Europe

Selected publications

"Variable Geometries: Institutions, Power and Ideas in Turkey’s European Integration Process" in Noel Parker (ed.) The Geopolitics of Europe’s Identity, Palgrave MacMillan, New York and Basingstoke, 2008.

"Whole, Free and Integrated? A Transatlantic Perspective on the European Neighbourhood" CEPS Working Document No. 271, Brussels, 2007

"A Shadow EU Strategy for the Wider Black Sea" in Peter Volten and Blagovest Tashev (eds.) Establishing Security and Stability in the Wider Black Sea Area. NATO Science for Peace Security Series, IOL Press, Amsterdam, 2007

(with Marius Vahl) "Small is Feasible: Pondering the Future of EU-Russia Relations" The International Spectator, (42:1) 2007

"Security and Integration in the European Neighborhood", CEPS Working Document No. 226, Brussels, 2005

Selected research related activities

Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels

Non-resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, DC

External Lecturer of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

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