Stefania Paola Ludovica Panebianco

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name PANEBIANCO
First Name STEFANIA
Date and Place of Birth 31.03.1970 - CATANIA - ITALY
Nationality Italian
University Address Dept. of Political and Social Sciences- University of Catania, Via V. Emanuele, 49 95131 Catania - Italy
Telephone +39 095 7347236
E-mail stefania.panebianco@unict.it
Skype s.panebianco
Institutional web-page http://www.dsps.unict.it/docenti/stefania.paola.ludovica.panebianco

ACADEMIC POSITION AND TEACHING

Full Professor in Political Science (GSPS-02/A), University of Catania.
 Teaching load: Mediterranean Politics [in English] (9 ECTS), MA in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations; 'Politica Internazionale' (9 ECTS), MA in 'Relazioni Internazionali'; 'Relazioni Internazionali' (6 ECTS), BA in 'Storia Politica e Relazioni Internazionali'.
Teaching Professor, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome (I), since academic year 2008/2009.
 Teaching load: EU Migration Policies, elective course, Master in European Studies programme, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome.
Jean Monnet Professor of EU MEDiterranean border crises and European External Action (EUMEDEA) -Grant 565729-EPP-1-2015-1-IT-EPPJMO-CHAIR http://www.dsps.unict.it/EUMedEA

Previous teaching:

- Teaching Professor, Syracuse Academy, University of California Education Abroad Program - Global Start, 23/09/2024 - 07/12/2024. IBEI, Barcelona The EU and its Neighbours. Politics, Institutions, Instruments, Master in International Security, (October-November 2019);
- Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania (USA), Migration in the Mediterranean, online teaching (fall semester 2014);
- Scuola Superiore Catania (SSC), Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Democratic Transitions in Mediterranean Countries, PhD course in Global Politics and European Integration (2009/2010);
- IMT, Lucca (I), Mediterranean Politics, PhD course in Political Systems and Institutional Change (February-March 2010);
- MEDAC (Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies), University of Malta, MA in Diplomatic Studies, International History, Highlights of Mediterranean History, Research and Writing Methods (academic years 1997-1998, 1998-1999).

OTHER ACADEMIC/INSTITUTIONAL TASKS

- Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence DIPLOWideMed funded by the European Commission (2025-2028).
- Member of the Editorial Board of The International Spectator (2024-2026).
- IPSA Research Committee Officer, Research Committee 03 European Unification (since July 2025).
- Member of IBEI Board of patrons Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona (since January 2014).
- Visiting Professor, Kings College (UK), 1-31 October 2025, funded with UNICT grant.
- Member of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Migration) funded by the European Union (2024-2028). Project starting date: 1 March 2025.
- Member of the Quality Assurance Board of the University of Catania (2021/2025).
- Member of the Quality Committee, EUNICE-European Network for customized education https://eunice-university.eu
- Member of the PhD program in Political Sciences teaching staff, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
- Supervisor of PhD candidates: Valentina Gruarin, Isabella Miano and Giovanni Spina, ongoing PhD projects.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the ‘Conferenza Nazionale dei Dottorandi e delle Dottorande in Scienze Sociali’.
- Supervisor, Scuola Superiore Catania (SSC) Fellows.
- Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) since September 2025.
- Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the IPSA Research Group on European Unification (RC03) since July 2023.
- Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on European Union (SGEU) (2022-2026).
- Member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Migration Politics and Governance since July 2023.
- EuroMedMig Associate Member, IMISCOE Regional Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration (EuroMedMig), coordinated by GRITIM-UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Studies Series of the European Press Academic Publishing, Florence since 2021.
- Evaluation Expert for ANVUR, the Agency for Evaluation of the Italian Ministry of Education, concerning both teaching and research projects (2013 onwards), registered in the REPRISE [Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation] database, including VQR 2015-2019. Since 2024, expert in the accreditation procedure following the European Approach coordinated by AQAS (the German Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Procedure of Degree Studies).
- Anonymous Referee and Reviewer for several publishers (e.g. Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Routledge, Palgrave/Macmillan, Ashgate), journals (Journal of Common Market Studies, International Political Science Review, Cooperation and Conflict, International Studies Quarterly, Geopolitics, Mediterranean Politics, Democratization, European Security, The International Spectator, Contemporary Italian Politics, Participation and Conflict, European Security, Journal of European Integration, Polis), and MIUR research grants.

PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES AND PAST POSITIONS

INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AT UNICT
 Associate Professor, University of Catania, Department of Political and Social Sciences (2004-2024).
 Responsible of the Double Degree and International Didactics portfolio, GLOPEM Master Course (2019/2025).
 Supervisor, SSC Fellows: Maria Carla Merlo, Giuseppe Cannata, Ornella Urso, Andrea Ciambra.
 Member of the Quality Assessment Group of the Department of Political and Social Sciences (2020-2021).
 Member of the Quality Assessment Group of the Master Degree Course on Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Department of Political and Social Sciences (May 2013 –May 2019).
 Elected Member of the executive body (‘Giunta’) of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2012-2017.
 Member of the PhD program in Global Politics and European Integration, Scuola Superiore di Catania (2008-2011).
 Chair of the BA Course in International Politics and Relations, University of Catania (2007-2014).
 Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Catania (2002-2004).
 Research Fellow in EU Politics and International Relations, University of Catania, Department of Political Studies (1999-2002).
 Tutor of the virtual seminar Globalization and European Identity, training course within the Virtual Forum of European Studies CEFES 2000 (1999-2000, University of Catania).
 Post-Graduate Student Assistant in International Relations and Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Catania, since June 1994.

OTHER UNIVERSITIES, INSTITUTIONS, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & ACADEMIC JOURNALS

 Teaching Professor, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome (I) since academic year 2007-2008 (still on-going). Supervisor of MA theses.
 PhD External examiner/external reviewer:
- Federico Reginato (PhD candidate at UNITO), February 2025;
- Monika Kabata (PhD Candidate at Nottingham Trent University), June 2022;
- Gaia Gondino (PhD Candidate at UNITO-Paris Nanterre), May 2021;
- Jochem Rietveld (PhD Candidate at LUISS-Guido Carli), August 2020;
- Nabil Shokri (PhD Candidate at IMT –Lucca), July 2015;
- Silvia Colombo and Vincenzo Emanuele (PhD Candidates at SUM – Firenze), June 2014;
- Sara Bonanni and Loretta Dell’Aguzzo (PhD candidates at SUM – Firenze), June 2013;
- Antonio Ciaglia, Matteo Dian, Simone Dossi and Nicola Maggini (PhD candidates at SUM – Firenze), March 2012;
- Luigi Carafa (PhD candidate at Université de Toulouse), June 2012;
- Meng jen Chang (PhD candidate at Università di Siena), April 2009.
 Anonymous reviewer (invited) for the proposals submitted for the 2023 IMISCOE Annual Conference.
 Member of the jury appointed by the Board of the Italian Society of Political Science to select the best paper presented at the Annual Conference, 2022 “C.M. Santoro” award for paper-givers with no tenure track.
 Research fellowship, GRITIM-UPF, Barcelona, 4 October- 2 November 2022 with a UNICT grant.
 Co-editor, Global Affairs, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rgaf20 Print ISSN: 2334-0460/Online ISSN: 2334-0479 (2017-2022).
 Member of the Editorial Board of Global Affairs 2015-2017.
 Visiting Professor, IBEI, Barcelona, 13 October-13 November 2019, with a UNICT grant.
 Post-Doc Supervisor: Iole Fontana, EUMEDEA Jean Monnet Tutor (2015-2018).
 Co-editor, Italian Political Science, Italian open access journal, with Francesco Zucchini from 2013 to 2017, ISSN 2420-8434.http://italianpoliticalscience.com/
 Founding member and Steering Board Member of the European International Studies Association (EISA) (2013-2017).
 Member of the Jury for the EISA award to the best EJIR article (award 2017).
 Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) (2010-2016).
 Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) (2010-2016).
 Convenor SISP Standing Group Unione Europea (SGUE) with Marco Brunazzo, 2010-2016.
 Evaluator for the European Commission, H2020 research for societal challenge 6-Europe as a global actor (2015).
 PhD Supervisor: PhD Candidate Iole Fontana, IMT-Lucca (2012-2015). PhD dissertation: The implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in Tunisia and Morocco: When domestic actors make a difference.
 Co-supervisor: PhD Candidate Federica Zardo, Università di Torino (2012-2015). PhD dissertation: Whose ownership? Explaining EU-Tunisia cooperation since 1995.
 Expert evaluator, Programme de Bourses Fernand Braudel-IFER Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (June 2014).
 Evaluator of Research at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ghent University (April 2014).
 Member of the international jury to award the title of Associate Professor to Dr. SONG Weiqing, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macao (February 2014).
 External Evaluator, PISCOPIA Fellowship Programme, co-funded by the European Commission – Marie Curie Action and Università di Padova, 2013.
 Member of the Jury for the SGIR/EISA award to the best PhD student paper (award 2013).
 Member of the Jury for the SISP award to the best book authored by a SISP member ‘under 40’ (award 2012).
 Member of the Editorial Board of the professional online journal Italian Political Science (2007 – 2012).
 Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of EuroMediterranean Studies at its launching (2008).
 Executive Secretary of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) (2002-2004).
 Seminars on topics related to Interest Representation at EU Level and EU Relations with Mediterranean Countries, European Institute of Cyprus, University of Siena and University of Catania (1995-2001).
 Holder of the Italian Chair of Mediterranean Diplomacy and Relations at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta (academic years 1997-1998 & 1998-1999).
 Supervisor of MA theses, University of Malta (academic years 1997-1999, 2000-2001 and 2003-2004).
 Teaching Assistant in Comparative European Survey Data at the 30th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection, University of Essex (July-August 1997).

“THIRD SECTOR”

 Amnesty International, Human Rights Defender price awarded to Parisa Nazari, Iranian activist for the defence of Iranian women’s rights, University of Catania, 15 December 2023, in cooperation with Amnesty International - Sicilia.
 Amnesty International, Human Rights Defender price awarded to Mohamed Dihani, activist for the Saharawi people, University of Catania, 15 December 2022, in cooperation with Amnesty International – Sicilia.
 Member of the Jury for the award “FB Grant for Lobbyists”, grant offered by FB & Associati (Roma) to the best dissertation on ’Lobbying e politiche pubbliche’ (award 2012).
 Researcher in EU policies (education, agriculture, and external relations) at the Osservatorio Europa Mezzogiorno, research funded by the European Parliament (November 1993 – February 1994).

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

 PhD in International Relations, Università degli Studi di Padova (June 1999). Thesis: The Third Level: The Evolution of EU Interest Representation.
 Stage COMETT at EUROCHAMBRES, European Chambers of Commerce Association, Brussels (May-July 1995).
 SIOI Training Course for Operatore Comunitario, with a SIOI grant (Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale), Rome (October - November 1993).
 Bachelor of Political Science (International Politics) with honours (110/110 cum laude) 12 July 1993, Università degli Studi di Catania. Dissertation on the European Parliament, supervisor prof. Fulvio Attinà.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

- DSPS Mobility Grant 2025: 1 month-research stay at KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON (October 2025).
- CRIDEM, Crisi della democrazia, crisi nella democrazia, research funded by UNICT Piano di incentivi per la ricerca di Ateneo (Pia.ce.ri.) 2024/2025, coordinated by prof. Luigi Caranti [1 July 2024-30 June 2025]. PI of WP3: Democrazia e Politiche migratorie.
- Call: ERASMUS-JMO-2024-HEI-TCH-RSCH (Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education Teaching and Research). Topic: ERASMUS-JMO-2024-CoE. Application for a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (CoE) on EU Border and Migration Data to be based at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, involving 5 UNICT Departments plus 10 Italian and international universities (proposal number: SEP-211017723). Total score: 80.50/ Threshold: 70. Despite its merits, the proposal has not been funded given to budgetary constraints.
- European Mobility Grant STA: March 2024 (Université de Liège), April 2019 (Ankara University), March 2018 (Université Paris Est), March 2017 (University of Ljubljana), September 2014 (University of Ghent).
- Membership of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) since 2023, upon invitation, ratified by the IAI General Assembly (April 2023).
- PRIN 2022, Unit researcher. Research project on Questioning the EU: Politicisation, Representation and Agenda Setting (EUQuest), project coordinator prof. Marcello Carammia, research units: University of Catania, University of Salento, Lecce. Months: 24.
- UNICT Mobility Grant 2020: 1 month-research stay at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (mid-October to mid-November 2020, postponed to early October- early November 2022).
- M.O.R.D.O.R. (Mapping and Organizing Research on Dictatorships, Open Access Repository), E+ Cooperation Partnership in higher education, 2021-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000023034, coordinated by Jeroen Van den Bosch, Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza W Poznaniu. Local Research Unit and responsible of the WG on the White Paper. Months: 36. [01-11-2021 to 30-10-2024]
- HORIZON 2020, Call: H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2018-2019-2020, Research Project on: ‘The Right To International Protection: A Pendulum Between Globalization And Nativization?’ – PROTECT, coordinated by prof. Hakan Sicakkan, Universitetet I Bergen; Local Research Unit researcher. Months: 36. [starting grant: 01-02-2020]. Grant Agreement No. 870761.
- ProInt, La politica di protezione internazionale dell’UE: l’impatto del Global Compact on Migration e del Global Compact on Asylum, research funded by UNICT Piano di incentivi per la ricerca di Ateneo (Pia.ce.ri.) 2020/2022 coordinated by prof. Francesca Longo [1 July 2020-30 June 2022].
- Piano per la Ricerca 2016-2018, Research Project VAM: La politica italiana di visti asilo e migrazione tra dinamiche interne ed esterne. Idee, attori, processi, University of Catania. Months: 24. [2 November 2017-1 November 2019]
- Jean Monnet Chair in EU MEDiterranean border crises and European External Action (EUMEDEA) -Grant 565729-EPP-1-2015-1-IT-EPPJMO-CHAIR Months: 36 (2016-2018). http://www.dsps.unict.it/EUMedEA
- Honorary Membership, EISA (European International Studies Association), awarded in 2017.
- HORIZON 2020 Research Project on ‘Enhancing The EU’s Trans-boundary Crisis Management Capacities: Strategies For Multi-Level Leadership’ [TRANSCRISIS], coordinated by prof. M. Lodge, LSE; Local Research Unit researcher on: Managing the Immigration Crisis: Inter-Institutional Co-operation and External Relations. Months: 36. Start date: 1 April 2015, end date: 31 March 2018. Grant agreement ID: 649484.
- FIR 2014 Research project on ‘Military humanitarian missions at a crossroad? The lessons learned from the Mare Nostrum Operation and the assessment of the Operation given by the experts’, Finanziamento della ricerca 2014, University of Catania. Months: 24.
- PRIN 2010-11 Unit researcher on ‘La Politica Estera Italiana di fronte alle nuove sfide del sistema internazionale: attori, istituzioni e politiche’, project coordinator prof. Pierangelo Isernia (Università di Siena). Research units: Università di Siena, Università di Catania, Università Roma La Sapienza, Università di Torino, Università di Padova, Università di Trento, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Months 36.
- Academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Information and Research Activity on ‘EU Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion’ (EUDEM) funded by the European Commission through the LLP (2010-2011), http://www3.unict.it/eudem/eudem/
- Scientific Responsible of the European Jean Monnet Module on EU Roles in the International Governance funded by the European Commission for the years 2005-2010 http://www.fscpo.unict.it/europa/EU_roles.htm
- Responsible of the Local Research Unit of the International Research Project ‘Migraciones Internacionales y Politica Mediterranea de la Union Europea’ funded by the Spanish Education Ministry, project coordinator Prof. Angel Chueca (University of Saragoza), 2007-2009.
- Research Unit Member of the International Research Project ‘European Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus: the Role of the EU, the US and Russia’, funded by INTAS/European Commission, 2005-2007, project coordinator prof. Francesca Longo (Università di Catania). Units: Catania, Salisburgo, Tblisi e Baku. Mesi 24.
- International Visitor Leadership Program, Washington/New York, June 2005, training programme organised and funded by the US Embassy in Italy with the US Dept. of State.
- Research Unit of the International Research Project ‘Les relations trans-Méditerranéenes au temps présent: modernisation, conflits, processus d'intégration, dialogue interculturel’, project involving an European network of Jean Monnet Centers of Excellence funded by the European Commission, project coordinator Prof. Maria Grazia Melchionni, Centro di Eccellenza Jean Monnet- Luigi Einaudi, University La Sapienza - Rome, 2003-2004. Months: 24.
- Research Grant on Regional Interest Representation at EU Level funded by the University of Catania awarded upon public competition, funded by ‘Zingali-Tetto Foundation’ (November 1997-October 1999).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Euro-Mediterranean relations.
- Cooperation processes in the Mediterranean.
- Mediterranean security, especially maritime security and human security.
- The EU as an external actor of democratization in the neighbourhood.
- Migration and mobility at EU borders.
- Mediterranean Migration: peripheral cities as migration managers.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Mediterranean neighbourhood, in Handbook of European Union Governance, edited by Sonia Lucarelli and James Sperling, 2025, Edward Elgar, 475-487.
• The Mobility-Democracy Nexus Betrayed: when the European Commission’s Talks fall apart in the Mediterranean, with Giuseppe Cannata, in ‘European Foreign Affairs Review’, 2024, 29(1), 7-34. [MORDOR]
• L’Unione Europea e il vicinato meridionale tra vecchie e nuove sfide alla sicurezza comune: come cambiano gli scenari della cooperazione, in POLIARCHIE/POLYARCHIES, 2023, 6(2), 230-251, available in OPEN ACCESS: https://www.openstarts.units.it/collections/0e5567a5-13f5-48a4-8c77-a32a6e922b94 DOI: 10.13137/2611-2914/35631.
• (Im-)Mobility Partnerships: Limits to EU Democracy Promotion through Mobility in the Mediterranean, with Giuseppe Cannata, in Migrations in the Mediterranean, edited by R. Zapata-Barrero and I. Awad, Springer, October 2023, 71-88, available in OPEN ACCESS: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-42264-5 ISBN 978-3-031-42263-8. [MORDOR]
• Mind the gap! Organized Hypocrisy in EU Cooperation with Southern Neighbor Countries on International Protection, with Francesca Longo and Giuseppe Cannata, in ‘Italian Political Science Review’, 2023, 53(3), 367-383 available in OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.9 [PROTECT]
• Mediterranean migration governance and the role of the Italian coast guard: Varying political understandings of maritime operations in the 2010s, in ‘Contemporary Italian Politics’, 2023, 15(1), 43-59, https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2022.2057046 [PROTECT]
• Editor, Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South. Challenges to Expanding Borders, series on Critical Security Studies in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-030-90295-7.
• Introduction. Conceptualizing the Mediterranean Global South to Understand Border Crises and Human Mobility Across Borders, in S. Panebianco, editor, Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South. Challenges to Expanding Borders, series on Critical Security Studies in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 1-17. ISBN: 978-3-030-90295-7.
• Climate Change Migration enters the Agenda of the Wider Mediterranean: The Long Way towards Global Governance, in S. Panebianco, editor, Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South. Challenges to Expanding Borders, series on Critical Security Studies in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 145-175.
• Conclusion. Looking Ahead, Setting the Future Agenda to Address Border Insecurities and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South, in S. Panebianco, editor, Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South. Challenges to Expanding Borders, series on Critical Security Studies in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 235-248.
• Co-editor (with Benjamin Tallis), Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities: Human Security, Border (In)Security and Mobility in Security, Special Issue of ‘International Politics’, 2022, 59(3) [IF: 1.164, 2021]. [HiSMed]
• Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities: Human Security, Border (In)Security and Mobility in Security, in ‘International Politics’, Introduction to the Special Issue co-edited with Benjamin Tallis, 2022, 59(3), 399-409 available in OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-022-00375-y [IF: 1.164, 2021]. [HiSMed]
• Human Security at the Mediterranean Borders: Humanitarian Discourse in the EU Periphery, in ‘International Politics’, 2022, 59(3), 428-448. available in OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-021-00316-1 [IF: 1.164, 2021]. [VAM]
• The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. EU Borders’ Control by Proxy, in ‘Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies’, December 2022, 48(6), pp. 1398-1416, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1851468 IF: 3.116 [reprint in: V. Bello and S. Leonard (editors), ‘The Spiralling of the Securitization of Migration in the European Union’, London: Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-032-43323-3]. [VAM]
• Migration Governance in the Mediterranean. The Siracusa Experience, in ‘Geopolitics’, 2022, 27(3), 752-772 available in OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1823837 [IF: 2.87, 2021]. [VAM]
• Conceptualising the Mediterranean Global South: A research agenda on security, borders and human flows, in ‘De Europa’, Special Issue edited by Rosita Di Peri and Federico Donelli: The (re)configuration of the Euro-Mediterranean space after the 2011 Arab uprisings: borders, politics and identity, 2021, 4(1), 17-34. ISSN 2611-853X available in OPEN ACCESS.
• Towards a human and humane approach? The EU discourse on migration amidst the Covid-19 crisis, in ‘The International Spectator’, Special Issue edited by Daniela Huber and Leo Goretti: The Impact of the COVID Crisis on Regionalism, 2021, 56(2), 19-37 available in OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2021.1902650 [PROTECT]
• Mixing teaching, research and expertise within the Jean Monnet Chair framework: the EUMedEA Crash Course, in Anna Visvizi, Mark Field and Marta Pachocka (eds), Teaching the EU: Fostering Knowledge and Understanding in the Brexit Age, in the series entitled Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2021, pp. 103-116. ISBN: 978-1-80043-275-8 (Print); ISBN: 978-1-80043-274-1 (Online); ISBN: 978-1-80043-276-5 (Epub)
• The Mediterranean Migration Crisis: Humanitarian practices and migration governance in Italy, in ‘Contemporary Italian Politics’, 2019, 11(4), 386-400: https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2019.1679961 [VAM]
• L’Italia e i flussi migratori nel Mediterraneo Centrale: lo snodo libico, in Baldinetti Anna, Cassarino Mirella, Maimone Giuseppe, Melfa Daniela (a cura di), Oltre-confine. Temi e fonti per lo studio dell’Africa. Omaggio a Federico Cresti, dicembre 2019, Roma, Aracne, 223-244, ISBN 978-88-255-3056-8.
• I flussi migratori nel Mediterraneo come sfida alla sovranità statale? Il ruolo dell’Italia nella difesa dei confini europei (e nazionali) in: Atti del Convegno di Studi ‘La sovranità in Europa’ Catania-Siracusa 27-28 Aprile 2018, curati da Mario Blancato e Giuseppe don Di Rosa, Notabilis, Numero Speciale, giugno 2019, 121-147.
• Libia e intervento militare. Il principio della responsabilità di proteggere nel dibattito politico italiano, con Ornella Urso, in Francesca Longo e Pierangelo Isernia (a cura di), La Politica Estera Italiana nel nuovo millennio, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2019, 117-148, ISBN: 978-88-15-28093-0
• When Responsibility to Protect ‘hits home’: The EU and the Syrian crisis, with Iole Fontana, in ‘Third World Quarterly’, 2018, 39(1), 1-17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369035 [IF: 2.255, 2021]
• Intercultural Dialogue across the Mediterranean Troubled Waters: Challenges to the Anna Lindh Foundation, in Richard Gillespie and Frederic Volpi (editors), Handbook of Mediterranean Politics London/New York, Routledge, 2018, 394-407, ISBN HB: Hardback 978-1-138-90398-2, ebook 978-1-315-69657-7.
• The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. Entrapped between the humanitarian approach and border security, in: Moccia Luigi and Pop Lia (eds), Migrants and Refugees Across Europe, European University Press, Boschum (Germany), 2017, 139-168, ISBN 9783865152497.
• The 60th anniversary of the EU: a new élan for the EU … or maybe not, in ‘Global Affairs’, 2017, 3(1), 1-3.
• Review: Maria Grazia Galantino and Maria Raquel Freire, Managing Crises, Making Peace. Towards a Strategic EU Vision for Security and Defence, Basingstoke, Palgrave/MacMillan, 2015. In ‘Italian Political Science’, 2017, 12(2), 3 pp.
• The Mediterranean migration crisis: border control versus humanitarian approaches, in ‘Global Affairs’, 2016, 2(4), 441-445.
• Sulle onde del Mediterraneo. Cambiamenti globali e risposte alla crisi migratoria, (a cura di Panebianco S.), EGEA, Milano, 2016, ISBN: 978-88-238-4527-5
• Mare Nostrum e le operazioni di ricerca e salvataggio in mare: da una risposta italiana a un approccio europeo per affrontare la crisi migratoria nel Mediterraneo, in Stefania Panebianco (a cura di), Sulle onde del Mediterraneo. Cambiamenti globali e risposte alla crisi migratoria, EGEA, Milano, 2016, 71-92, ISBN: 978-88-238-4527-5.
• Review: Michela Ceccorulli, Framing irregular migration in security terms: the Libya case, Florence, Italy, Florence University Press, 2014. In Italian Political Science, 2015, 10(2), 3 pp.
• La difficile transizione democratica nel Vicinato Meridionale. Il ruolo dell’Unione Europea tra persistenza e cambiamento, in Marco Mascia (a cura di), Verso un sistema partitico europeo transnazionale, Cacucci, Bari, 2014, 169-180.
• Review: Ann-Kristin Jonasson, The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours: Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey, London/New York, Routledge, 2013, in ‘Democratization’, 2014, 21(7), 1358-1360.
• L’Unione Europea nel Mediterraneo: oltre la primavera araba, in Guerino D'Ignazio, Nicola Fiorita, Silvio Gambino, Francesco Raniolo, Alberto Ventura (a cura di), Transizioni e democrazia nei paesi del Mediterraneo e del vicino oriente, Edizioni Periferia, Cosenza, 2014, 287-309.
• Review: Sonia Lucarelli, Luk Van Langenhove and Jan Wouters (eds), The EU and Multilateral Security Governance, London/New York, Routledge, 2012, in ‘The International Spectator’, 2013, 49(1), 155-157.
• Unione Europea, con Luciano Bardi, in G. Pasquino, M. Regalia e M. Valbruzzi (a cura di), Quarant’anni di scienza politica in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, 201-218.
• Evaluating the Evaluation. The pros and cons of ‘VQR’ in social and political research, with Carla Monteleone and Francesco Zucchini, in ‘Italian Political Science’, 2013, 8(1).
• Review: Pollini Gabriele, Pretto Albertina e Rovati Giancarlo (a cura di), L'Italia nell'Europa: i valori tra persistenze e trasformazioni, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012, in ‘Contemporary Italian Politics’, 2013, 5(1), 97-98.
• L'Unione Europea "potenza divisa" nel Mediterraneo, Milano, Egea, 2012. ISBN: 978-88-238-4348-6 [reviewed in: ‘European Review of International Studies’, 2014, 1, 171-173; ‘Italian Political Science’, 9(1)].
• Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Processes, Actors and possible Outcomes, edited by Stefania Panebianco and Rosa Rossi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012. ISBN: 978-88-498-3183-2 [reviewed in: ‘The Journal of North African Studies’, 2015, 20(3), 492-493; ‘Democratization’, 2014, 21(1), 189-191; ‘Mediterranean Politics’, 2014, 19(2), 278-279; ‘Journal of Contemporary European Studies’, 2014, 22(2), 232-234; ‘European Foreign Affairs Review’, 2014, 19(4), 599-602, ‘The International Spectator’, 2013, 48(3), 138–145; ‘Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali’, 2013, 80(2), 314-316].
• Democratic Turmoil in the MENA Area: Challenges for the EU as an External Actor of Democracy Promotion, in: Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Processes, Actors and possible Outcomes, edited by Stefania Panebianco and Rosa Rossi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012, 151-169. ISBN: 978-88-498-3183-2.
• Conclusion: Democratization. The Uneasy Contamination of the MENA Countries, in: Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Processes, Actors and possible Outcomes, edited by Stefania Panebianco and Rosa Rossi, 363-381, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012. ISBN: 978-88-498-3183-2.
• The Arab Spring: when democracy meets global protest, in ‘Italian Political Science’, 2012, issue 7, SISP online journal, ISSN: 2420-8434
• L'Unione Europea "potenza divisa" nel Mediterraneo, in: Politiche di sicurezza e cambiamento globale, edited by Carla Monteleone, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012, 201-214. ISBN: 9788820407902.
• Prefazione, in: Luca Ozzano, Tra la Mecca e Bruxelles. Politica e religione in Turchia, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, 2012, 11-13. ISBN: 9788860744708.
• EU democracy-assistance in the MENA region in 2011. A test for a divided power Europe?, in Ahmed Driss (sous la coordination de), Quels changements en Tunisie et quel impact sur la région de la Méditerranée, CEMI/KAS, Tunis, 2011, 19-32.
• Le relazioni Euro-Mediterranee e la cooperazione regionale “volatile”, in S. Di Bella (ed.), La Sicilia ed il Mediterraneo in un riscontro interdisciplinare, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2010, 49-66, ISBN: 9788856836172.
• Dealing with Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Basin: The EU as a Multilateral Actor, IAI1016, Documenti IAI, Istituto Affari Internazionali, August 2010, ISSN: 2280-6164 (online).
• Volatile Regionalism in the Mediterranean Area, in L’Europe en formation. Le partenariat euro-méditerranéen: La fin d’une vision?, edité par Dagmar Rottsches, Special issue on The EU and the Mediterranean, Année 2010 - été 2010 - n. 356, 153-167, ISSN: 0014-2808.
• The EU and the Middle East, in Bindi Federiga (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C, 2010, 183-196 ISBN: 9780815701408.
• The EU as a Selective Migration-Controller in the Mediterranean? EU Political Discourse, Regional Cooperation and Migration Flows with Marcello Carammia, in Ángel Chueca, Víctor Luis Gutiérrez and Irene Blázquez (eds), Las migraciones internacionales en el Mediterráneo y Unión Europea, Huygens Editorial, Barcelona, 2009, 73-102, ISBN: 9788493598181.
• L’Unione Europea nel sistema politico globale, con Attinà Fulvio, Longo Francesca, Monteleone Carla, Rosa Paolo, , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2009, 270 pp. [book translated in chinese] ISBN: 978-7-5004-8041-9
• Review: Luca Bellocchio, L'eterna alleanza? La “special relation” angloamericana tra continuità e mutamento, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2006, in ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, 2009, 1, 150-152.
• The EU involvement in the Mediterranean: changing priorities and strategies, in ISIG Journal - Quarterly of International Sociology, 2008, n. 3/4, 115-128, ISSN: 1826-3003
• L'Unione Europea come attore esterno delle transizioni democratiche. Una comparazione tra Balcani Occidentali, Medio Oriente e Nord Africa, con Rosa Rossi, in Longo F. (a cura di), L'Unione Europea e il "cerchio di amici": Sicurezza Europea e Politica di Vicinato, Giuffré editore, Milano, 2008, 129-167. ISBN: 881414477X.
• La costruzione di regimi regionali di sicurezza: il caso critico del Mediterraneo, in Luciano Bardi, Federica Bicchi e Serena Giusti (a cura di), Dimensioni e dilemmi della sicurezza nel Mediterraneo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2008, pp. 43-74, ISBN: 978-88-498-1850-5.
• Review: Federica Bicchi, European Foreign Policy Making Toward the Mediterranean, New York, Palgrave, 2007, in ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, 3/2008, 481-483.
• The EU as a democracy and human rights promoter in the Mediterranean: a critical view, in van Doorn M. & von Meijenfeldt R. (eds), Democracy. Europe’s Core Value?, Eburon, Delft, 2007, 167-184, ISBN: 9789059721340.
• Sicurezza e cooperazione, in Cassano F. e Zolo D. (eds), L’alternativa Mediterranea, Feltrinelli, 2007, 556-583, ISBN: 9788807104213.
• The constraints on EU action as a ‘norm exporter’ in the Mediterranean, in Elgström O. & Smith M. (eds), The European Union’s Roles in International Politics, Routledge, London/New York, 2006, 136-154.
• Promoting human rights and democracy in European Union relations with Russia and China, in Lucarelli S. & Manners I. (eds), Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, Routledge, London/New York, 2006, 130-146.
• Security cooperation in the Mediterranean: the EMP instruments to appease different security perceptions, con Fulvio Attinà in M. G. Melchionni (ed.), Le relazioni transmediterranee nel tempo presente, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2005, 407-430.
• La Commissione europea nell’Unione a 25: tra influenza nazionale e autonomia sopranazionale, in Baldini G. (ed.), Quale Europa? L'Unione oltre la crisi, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2005, 85-109.
• L’allargamento dell’Unione Europea al Mediterraneo, in Scartezzini R. e Milanese J. (eds), L’allargamento dell’UE nello scenario geopolitico europeo, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005, 109-140.
• European Citizenship and European Identity: from Treaty Provisions to Public Opinion Attitudes, in Moxon-Browne E. (ed.), Who Are The Europeans Now?, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, 19-38.
• A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity (editor), Frank Cass, London, 2003;
• The EuroMediterranean Partnership in Perspective: the political and institutional context, in Panebianco S. (ed.), A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity, Frank Cass, London, 2003, 1-20.
• Conclusions: Towards a Mediterranean cultural identity? in Panebianco S. (ed.), A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity, Frank Cass, London, 2003, 179-188.
• Sfide e prospettive per un’identità mediterranea “plurale”, in ‘FOEDUS’, 2002, 3, 63-76.
• La PESC e la crisi dell’Europa sud-orientale, in Attinà F. et als, La politica di sicurezza e difesa dell’Unione Europea, CeMiSS Ricerca, Artistic and Publishing Company, Roma, 2001, 143-158.
• La cittadinanza europea e il processo di europeizzazione: verso quale identità europea?, in Melchionni M. G. (ed), L’identità europea alla fine del XX secolo, Biblioteca della <>, Firenze, 2001, 293-311.
• The EMP’s Innovative Dimension of a Cultural Dialogue: prospects and challenges, in Attinà F. & Stavridis S. (eds), The Barcelona Process and Euro-Mediterranean Issues from Stuttgart to Marseille, Giuffrè, Milano, 2001.
• Burocrazia europea e interessi organizzati: il lobbying articolato e continuo sulla Commissione, in ‘Amministrare’, 2001, 2, Il Mulino.
• Il lobbying europeo, Giuffré, Milano, 2000.
• Relations between Interest Groups and Party Groups in the European Union, in Transnational Parties in the European Union, Bell D. & Lord C. (eds), Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, 151-67, ISBN: 1840144017.
• The EU Institutions faced with Non-Economic Interests: from market needs to consumer protection, in Pluralisme, lobbyisme et intégration européenne, Claeys P. et al. (eds), Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes (PIE), Bruxelles, Coll. “La Cité européenne”, n. 16, 1998, pp. 345-72, ISBN: 9052018030.
• La influencia de los grupos de presión sobre el proceso decisorio comunitario, in Arana Muñoz J. et al., El proceso decisorio comunitario. Negociación, adopción y evaluación de decisiones en la Unión Europea, Servicio de Publicaciones de l’Universidad de Alcalà, Alcalà de Henares, 1995, pp. 45-63.
• Cittadini, elezioni e sondaggi europei, in Attinà F., Longo F., Panebianco S., Identità, partiti ed elezioni nell’Unione Europea, Cacucci, Bari, 1995, pp. 77-104.
• I cittadini e lo sviluppo politico dell’Unione, in Dalla Comunità all’Unione Europea, a cura di Attinà F. e Velo D., Cacucci, Bari, 1994, pp. 211-29.
• Other reviews for Italian and International Journals (‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, ‘Teoria Politica’, ‘World Affairs’).

On-line Papers:
o The Mare Nostrum Operation and the SAR Approach. The Italian Response to address the Mediterranean Migration Crisis, EUMedEA Working Paper 3-2016
o A review of PhD Research Projects conducted within political science PhD Programmes run at Italian Universities, (the professional SISP journal on-line), issue 2, fall 2008
o The 2007 SISP Congress: Who studies what?, IPS (the professional SISP journal on-line: http://www.italianpoliticalscience.org/ ), issue 1, spring 2008, http://www.italianpoliticalscience.org/issue1/the-2007-sisp-congress-who-studies-what
o The Italian Political Science Association (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica): An evaluation of SISP activities 25 years after its foundation, IPS (the professional SISP journal on-line: http://www.italianpoliticalscience.org/ ), issue 0, spring 2007, http://www.italianpoliticalscience.org/issue0/the-italian-political-science-association-societa-italiana-di-scienza-politica-an-evaluation-of-sisp-activities-25-years-after-its-foundation
o Security Cooperation in the Mediterranean: EMP Instruments to Mitigate Divergent Security Perceptions, con Fulvio Attinà, EuroMeSCo Other Research Papers, July 2004, http://www.euromesco.net/euromesco
o EU attempts to export norms of good governance to the Mediterranean and Western Balkan countries, con Rosa Rossi, Jean Monnet Working Paper Series, JMWP 53.04, 2004, http://www.fscpo.unict.it/EuroMed/jmwp53.pdf
o Constraints to the EU as a ‘norm exporter’ in the Mediterranean, in CFSP Forum, vol. 2, n. 3, May 2004, http://www.fornet.info/CFSPforumpastissues.html
o The constraints to EU action as a ‘norm exporter’ in the Mediterranean, in ‘A European Profile in Democracy Support’ Reader of the Conference Enhancing the European profile in democracy assistance, Den Haag, July 5-6 2004, http://www.democracyagenda.org/reader.php
o Sfide e prospettive per un’identità mediterranea “plurale”, available at: Jura Gentium, Rubriche, http://dex1.tsd.unifi.it/jg/it/index.htm
o European citizenship and European identity: from the Maastricht Treaty to public opinion attitudes, Jean Monnet Working Paper Series, JMWP 03/96, 1996, http://www.fscpo.unict.it/EuroMed/jmwp03.htm

SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND SEMINARS

- GRITIM – Universidad Pompeu Fabra: Research in Progress Migration practices in the EU Mediterranean periphery January 14, 2021
- US Embassy to Italy, Rome, Women In, 18-8-2020: https://www.facebook.com/AmbasciataUSA/videos/626962424887450
#100 esperte: Il nostro sguardo sul domani, 4-7-2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vSCUCkRE4&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2sYW-byXpF6VsTkt0_OYdXOPdXceX3b0soWpr-Q3obYnfkZPnx8LjASmE
- Webinar: 4 June 2020 Cosmopolitan and European Solidarity in the face of Covid19, organized by the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations of the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona (Spain), with the Jean Monnet Centre of the University of South Wales (UK) and the Jean Monnet Centre of the University of Catania (Italy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0uEcKrhjdk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2sYW-byXpF6VsTkt0_OYdXOPdXceX3b0soWpr-Q3obYnfkZPnx8LjASmE
- GLOPEM Web TV: Talk on migration, NGOs and Covid19, 16-5-2020, https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=167787454673015&ref=watch_permalink
Intervista a Vatican News: A Idlib in Siria è Guerra tra potenze regionali, 26-2-2020, https://www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo/news/2020-02/siria-idlib-profughi.html
- Interview, xinhuanet.com Italian politics being shaped by migrants issues as EU elections approaches, 11-5-2019, http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/11/c_138049502.htm
- Interview, Washington Post This Italian government is trying to be less Europeanist and more Atlantic, 29-7-2018, print.
- Interview, xinhuanet.com Italy split over allegations of NGO-migrant smuggling case, 2-5-2017 http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2017-05/02/c_136249237.htm#0-twi-1-33282-7250227817ecdff034dc9540e6c76667

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

• SGEU biannual Conference, Local Organization Committee, University of Catania, 1-3 July 2026.
• 2025 IPSA World Congress, Section Chair: Human Mobility, Seoul, 12-16 July 2025.
Panel Chair ‘International Protection at Risk? Human (im)Mobility at EU Borders’, with Francesca Longo.
• 2025 ISA Annual Convention, Chair with Federica Zardo, Round Table: ‘Sliding Doors in Human Mobility: Regular Pathways and Border (Im)permeability’, 2-5 March 2025, Chicago.
• SGEU biannual Conference, Co-convenor with Virginie Guiraudon, NOVA University, Lisbon, 19-21 June 2024.
Co-chair with Federica Zardo, Section S05: EU borders, migration and mobility.
Panel Chair with Iole Fontana, Panel:
• Co-chair of the panel To protect or not to protect? When the EU’s dilemmas put international protection at risk, Annual SISP Conference, Genova, 14-16 September 2023.
• XV annual Conference of the Italian Standing Group on International Relations (SGRI), local organizer, University of Catania, 15-16 June, 2023.
• WECCS Crash Course, Welcome to Europe, my Country, my City, my School, organized within the ERASMUS+ WECCS project, University of Catania, 10 - 12 April 2019.
• EUMedEA Crash Course, University of Catania, 2016, 2017, 2018 http://www.dsps.unict.it/eumedea/events/crash_course organized within the Jean Monnet Chair activities.
• 5th EISA European Workshops of International Studies, Groningen, 6-9 June 2018, Co-convenor of WS X: Human In-security and Mediterranean Migration (HIsMed).
• 6th EISA Exploratory Symposia, Rapallo Italy, 25-28 October, 2017, funded by EISA. Research Project: ‘Human (in)security in the Mediterranean (HiSMed)’.
• EISA Conference, Chair of the Global Affairs Section, 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona 13-16 September 2017.
• SISP Conference Co-Chair of the open Section: The Mediterranean faced with global challenges, SISP Conference, Milano, 15-17 September 2016.
• Chair of the open panel The EU Management of Insecurity Complexes in the Mediterranean - IPSA's 24th World Congress of Political Science Politics in a World of Inequality, 23-28 July 2016 – Istanbul [relocated in Poznan].
• EISA Conference Local Organizer of the 9th Pan European Conference in International Relations: The Worlds of Violence, Giardini Naxos (Sicily) 23-26 September 2015. www.paneuropeanconference.org/
Co-Chair of the Section S24: (In)security in the Global Mediterranean: Between Conflict and Cooperation, 9th Pan European EISA Conference in International Relations, Giardini Naxos (Sicily) 23-26 September 2015.
• Convenor of the ‘Celebrating Europe Day’ with Enrique Baron Crespo, former EP President, within the programme ‘European Parliament to Campus’. Catania, 9 May 2015.Talk on The European Union and its Mediterranean Neighbours: new and old democracies.
• SGEU Conference, Convenor of the Section on EU Foreign Policy and External Relations, 6th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics (SGEU), Tampere, 13-15 September 2012.
• Convenor of the panel on ‘Global Democracy and globalization processes’, 2nd Standing Group on International Relations Conference (SGIR), Trento 13-14 July 2012.
• Jean Monnet IRA academic coordinator, EUDEM Conference on ‘Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Actors, Processes and possible Outcomes’, 19-21 May 2011, funded by Jean Monnet funds.
• Co-convenor of the panel The New Security Agenda and Its Challenges: Maritime Security, World International Studies Committee (WISC) conference, Porto, Portugal, June 2011.
• Co-convenor of the Section on EU Politics at the SISP Conference; Co-Chair of the panel on: ‘The EU as an international actor in trouble? New chances and challenges after Lisbon’, Palermo, September 2011.
• Co-convenor of the Section on International Relations at the SISP Conference with prof. Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Venice, September 2010.
• Co-Convenor of the Symposium on Tradition, external factors, and political change in the Arab-Mediterranean Countries: is there a transition to democracy?, Third World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, 19th to 24th July, 2010.
• Scientific responsible of the EMUNI SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 on European Policies and Economic Transition in the Mediterranean Basin, University of Catania, 12-26 July 2009.
• Annual SISP Conference, Local Organizer, Catania, 20-22 September 2007.
Convenor of the Section on L'Unione Europea tra governance interna ed internazionale.
Chair of the panel The European Union as Regional Actor in the Mediterranean.
• Chair of the panel Il ruolo dell’Unione Europea nel sistema politico globale, Annual SISP Conference, Trento 14-17 September 2003.
• Co-chair of the session ‘Peace and Stability in the Mediterranean: redefining security in the 3rd millennium’, 4th Pan-European International Relations Conference (SGIR), Kent University, September 2001.
• The Human Dimension of Security and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, International Workshop organized as Holder of the Italian Chair of Mediterranean Diplomacy and Relations at MEDAC, University of Malta, Malta, May 1999.
• Security and Development in the Mediterranean, SIOI training course, organised as Holder of the Italian Chair of Mediterranean Diplomacy and Relations at MEDAC, Rome, March 1999 and March 1998.

INVITED TALKS, LECTURERS, CLOSED SEMINARS, CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT
 Outreach Event, ‘Cultural Diplomacy and Advocacy in Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation’, Paper Discussion sponsored by Anna Lindh Foundation, Chair, 13 March 2025.
 LUISS Academic Gym, ‘Ordine mediterraneo’, Lecture, LUISS-Rome, 27 November 2024.
 MORDOR Master Class, Seminar on ‘EU Foreign Policy and Democracy Support’, Ljubliana, 9-12 July 2023.
 IAI closed door event: ‘La sicurezza italiana di fronte alla guerra in Ucraina’. Panel chaired by Ettore Greco: ‘Presente e futuro della sicurezza italiana’, webinar, 3 May 2023.
 Universitat Autonoma de Madrid, Master in Democracy and Government. Research Seminar on: ‘Mediterranean Cities and Migration Management’, Madrid, 13 February 2023.
 LUISS Academic Gym, ‘Sicurezza e mobilità nel Mediterraneo’, Rome, 24 November 2022.
 SISP Annual Conference, Rome, 8-10 September 2022. Discussant: Section 10 - Politics and Policies of the European Union. Panel: 10.3 The external dimension of EU migration governance, chaired by Elena Ambrosetti, Anna Marino.
 EUNICE Summer School. Talk on Migration as a Global Issue, Santander, 6 July 2022.
 HYBRID ROUNDTABLE: ‘Legal Migration to the EU: Views from the Mediterranean’, closed door RT upon invitation organized by European Policy Center and Med Dialogue, 29 June 2022.
 Seminars on Statistics and Demography for Migration Studies, 3rd ed., University of Palermo. Lecture: Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South’, May 4, 2022.
 SUNY Fredonia Brown Bag Lecture on ‘Some Aspects in the European Union Higher Education System: Achievements & Challenges’. Virtual panel organized by State University of New York at Fredonia, April 6, 2022.
 Unpacking the Challenge of Jihadism in North Africa: Origins, Evolving Trends and the Way Forward, closed online seminar organized by the Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS PolDiMed), 30 November, 2021.
 Scuola di Formazione #EUPeople 2021, Fondazione de Gasperi. Talk: ‘L’Unione Europea nel Mediterraneo tra autonomia strategica e multilateralismo: il ruolo dell’Italia dinanzi alle sfide regionali’, 13 ottobre 2021.
 Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Sea: Deciphering the Security Puzzle, closed online seminar organized by the Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS PolDiMed) in collaboration with the Middle East Institute for Research and Strategic Studies (MEIRSS), 17 September, 2021.
 EISA 14th Pan-European Conference on IR, 13-17 September 2021. Invited speaker at the Plenary Session: ‘Migration: Utopias and Dystopias’.
 EISA 14th Pan-European Conference on IR, 13-17 September 2021. Chair of the Round table: ‘Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities’.
 AEGEE Expert Lecture ‘Human Security, Border (in)Security and Mobility in Security in the Mediterranean’, Catania, 6 August 2021.
 BISA 2021 Conference, Speaker at the Roundtable ‘Prejudice and the Role of Different Actors in the Spiralling of the Securitization of Migration’, Chaired by Christian Kaunert (University of South Wales), Sponsored by the International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group, 21 Jun 2021, online.
 Webinar: Why the Global North and the Global South do not meet in the Mediterranean, SGRI 2021 online Conference organized by the SISP Standing Group di Relazioni Internazionali, 18 June 2021.
 Guest speaker at the ‘EU Migration, Asylum, and Border Management after Lisbon’, VIRTUE virtual conference organized by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, 14th-16th June 2021.
 Keynote speech: ‘Migration practices in the EU Mediterranean periphery’. Conference for Young Researchers in IR & PolSci, April 16, 2021, online.
 Master of Arts in International Relations - Path of Excellence in International Studies, University of Palermo. Lecture: Introducing the MENA Region. Rethinking Security in the Mediterranean Global South, March 9, 2021.
 La dimensione multilaterale della sicurezza in Europa, International Disaster Medicine Association/Osservatorio cooperazione e sicurezza nel Mediterraneo, con il patrocinio dello Stato Maggiore della Difesa, in collaborazione con Centro Ricerche in European Affairs, LUISS Guido Carli, Ordine Giornalisti Campania, Napoli, Palazzo Salerno, 26 marzo 2020. Talk: ‘Le sfide alla cooperazione EuroMediterranea nel 2020’. CANCELED DUE TO COVID19
 XVI Conference of the National Migration Network, ‘The level of internationalization of higher education institutions and migration policies of states’, Krakowie, 28th -29th of November 2019. Expert speaker in Panel 4: International cooperation of universities.
 SISP Annual Conference, Plenary Session Round Table on ‘L’Italia di fronte alle migrazioni: molta politicizzazione, poche politiche?’, Lecce 12-14 September 2019.
 Convegno ‘Gli ultimi vent’anni d’Europa’, organized by Centro di Eccellenza Jean Monnet Punto Europa, c/o Università di Bologna, Campus di Forlì, 9 maggio 2019. Talk: La costruzione del confine esterno: politica estera e immigrazione.
 International Workshop ‘Eu-Turkey cooperation on migration management: going beyond ad hoc short-termism’, organized by Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) together with Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) and Mercator Stiftung within the Global Turkey in Europe V Programme, Kos - 6th May 2019.
 3rd EUMIGRO Conference, Jean Monnet Module EUMIGRO, ‘Migration and integration in the European Union – facts, figures, challenges and policy responses’, 26 March 2019, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw. Keynote Speech: The EU and Mediterranean Migration: when politics (un)makes policy.
 Discussant of the IAI study ‘Italy in the Mediterranean: Priorities and perspectives of a European middle-power Italy in the Mediterranean: Priorities and perspectives of a European middle-power’ by Silvia Colombo and Anja Palm, presentation organized by FEPS and EYU, Palermo, 15th February 2018.
 REMENA Expert Meeting ‘Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Migration’ in collaboration with: Regional Program on Energy Security and Climate Change Middle East and North Africa – Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung & Research Laboratory «Culture, Language, Education, Migration and Society», Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences – Mohammed V University of Rabat, November 30th to December 1st, 2018, Rabat, Morocco.
 Vienna Research Session ‘EU Migration governance in the Mediterranean: A decentring research agenda’, 8-9 November 2018, Institut für Europäische Integrations-forschung, Universität Wien.
 Movimento Federalista Europeo, Riunione dell'Ufficio del Dibattito, Catania 24 - 25 febbraio 2018. Talk: Le crisi migratorie nel Mediterraneo.
 Department Seminar series ‘L’Europa nel contesto globale: attori, processi, traiettorie’, organized by Paolo Graziano, Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, University of Padova, Padova, 11 October 2017. Talk: L’UE alle prese con la crisi migratoria nel Mediterraneo, tra approcci umanitari e di sicurezza'.
 EISA 11th Pan-European Conference on IR, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017. Invited panelist Round Table: ‘The Role of Professional Associations in Responding to the Changing Higher Education Landscape’, chaired by Richard Whitman.
 Journée d'études de l’Institut d’études européennes et globales Alliance Europa ‘L'accueil des réfugiés en Europe’, Nantes, 9 June 2017. Exposé: L’accueil des réfugiés en Europe. Le cas de l’Italie [in French].
 EISA 10th Pan-European Conference on IR, Izmir 7 September 2016. Round table: Is there still an EU foreign policy?". Talk: Is the EU loosing any foreign policy actorhood? [conference canceled]
 Conference ‘I movimenti politici islamici nel mondo arabo:questioni storiche e prospettive politiche’ to debate on the book edited by Laura Guazzone ‘Storia ed evoluzione dell’islamismo arabo. I Fratelli musulmani e gli altri’ (Mondadori, 2015), Trento, 10-11 December 2015. Talk: La politica estera europea e l’islamismo.
 International Conference ‘The EU and Member States in Global Affairs: Any sign of convergence?’, Europe Days, Florence 5-6 May 2015. Talk: EU and the Med: the Security-Democracy Nexus.
 International Workshop ‘The Economic, Financial and Demographic Challenges In the MENA Region: Today and Tomorrow’, Lugano 28 April 2015. Talk: Tracks for a New Euro-Mediterranean Vision.
 Region Europe: ‘The construction of the European Region and Its role in the World’, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, 14 November 2014. Talk: The EU as a Normative Power. New and Old Frames Applied to the Mediterranean Area.
 Mare Nostrum: International Symposium organized by the Auburn University, Catania 30 May 2014. Talk: Euro-Mediterranean Relations: searching for a post-Arab Spring new élan.
 AUSE International Conference: ‘Democrazia partecipativa e partecipazione politica. Verso un sistema partitico europeo transnazionale’, Padova 5-6 May 2014. Paper: The difficult democratic transition in the Mediterranean Neighborhood: the EU's role.
 NEPAS Conference: ‘Thinking Out of the Box. Devising New European Policies to Face the Arab Spring’, Porto, 21-22 February 2013. Paper: A New Mediterranean Political Landscape? The Arab Spring and Euro-Mediterranean Relations.
 International Conference ‘Transizioni e Democrazia nei Paesi del Mediterraneo e del Vicino Oriente’, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, 10-11 April 2013. Paper: Quali venti di cambiamento democratico nel Mediterraneo?
 Festa dell’Europa: ‘L’Europa in bilico: la scienza politica italiana di fronte alle attuali sfide’, Firenze, 8 May 2013. Talk: L’Unione Europea nel Mediterraneo: oltre la primavera araba.
 Erasmus IP Summer School, A.S.T.R.A. ‘Arab Springs and Transitions: A New Perspective on the Euro-Med Partnership’, First Edition, Catania 9-22 June 2013. Lecture: The difficult democratic transition in the Mediterranean Neighborhood: the EU's role.
 GOSEM Summer School, Crete, 3-7 September 2013. Lecture: The EU as a divided power in the Mediterranean.
 EISA-SGIR 8th Pan-European Conference on IR, Warsaw 20 September 2013. Chair: Semi-Plenary Session on ‘Europe and Global Affairs’.
 Jean Monnet Annual Conference ‘An Evolving Eu Engaging A Changing Mediterranean Region’, Malta 15 October 2013. Talk: The EU as a Mediterranean Power: strangled between Internal Divisions and the Economic Crisis?
 Workshop organized by CGIL-ESTERI: ‘Crisi interna, crisi internazionale: obiettivi e strumenti pubblici per la politica estera dell’Italia’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Roma, 29 February 2012. Talk: Crisi internazionali e risposte domestiche sempre più internazionali/zzate.
 Conférence internationale sur ‘Changement politique en Tunisie et impact sur la Méditerranée’ organisé par la Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, le Centre des Etudes Mediterraneennes et International et EuroMeSCo, Tunis, 24-25 March 2011. Talk: Beyond Regionalism in the Mediterranean: the UfM's neo-functionalist approach.
 TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conference: ‘Future Prospects for the Belgian Presidency of the EU: Global Challenges in a New Institutional Era’, Brussels 20/21 May 2010. Talk: EuroMed Relations today: common strategies for regional challenges. The EU as a global player in the Mediterranean area.
 Conference on 'The EU in International Affairs', Brussels 22-24 April 2010. Paper: EU Mediterranean External Action.
 AUSE - XIII Summer School, Catania, 1-3 October 2009. Paper: L'azione esterna dell'UE nel Mediterraneo.
 Round Table ‘L'Union pour la Méditerranée: un an après’, organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Centre d'Etudes Méditerranéennes Internationales, Tunis, 5 Juin 2009. Talk: Beyond Regionalism in the Mediterranean: the UfM's neo-functionalist approach.
 Simposio internacional “Migraciones internacionales en el Mediterráneo y la Unión Europea: un reto”, Córdoba, 5-7 November 2008. Paper: The EU as a migration-controller in the Mediterranean? EU political discourse, regional actions and migration flows, co-authored with Marcello Carammia.
 Research Workshop ‘Competition and Complementarity: National and EU Policies vis-à-vis the Southern Mediterranean’ organized by EuroMeSCo in collaboration with the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Warsaw, 31 March-1 April 2008.
 Conférence ‘La fin du moment democratique? un défi pour l’europe’ sous la direction scientifique de Zaki Laïdi, 11 et 12 mai 2007, Sciences Po Paris. Talk: Political conditionality in EU Mediterranean Policy: the EU (in)capability to favour concrete prospects of change.
 International Peace Studies Conference ‘Sources of Conflict and Prospects for Peace in the Mediterranean Basin’, Messina, 17-21 March 2004. Paper: The constraints to EU action as a ‘norm entrepreneur’ in the Mediterranean.
 Conference organized by the Lions Iterclubs ‘Mediterraneo: dai Conflitti alla Pace’, Siracusa, 6 February 2004. Talk: Diversità, Pluralismo e Tolleranza: parole chiave del dialogo interculturale.
 Conference organized by the Lions Club Acireale ‘Integrazione tra i paesi euromediterranei: quali prospettive per la Sicilia?’, Acireale, 29 March 2003. Talk: Aspetti socio-culturali delle relazioni EuroMediterranee.
 Workshop ‘Values & Principles in European Foreign Policy’, European University Institute, Fiesole, 26 October 2002. Paper: The external dimension of EU human rights and democratisation policy: promoting human rights and democracy in the EU relations with Russia and China.
 Workshop ‘Citizenship, Civil Society and Advocacy Coalition in the EU’, University of Trento, 14-15 December 2001. Paper: The participation of non-economic interest groups in the European governance.
 Conference ‘Evoluzione della Sicurezza nel Mediterraneo’, University of Pisa, 30 November-1 December 2001. Paper: La costruzione di regimi di sicurezza: il caso critico del Mediterraneo.
 International Seminar ‘Scenari per l’allargamento al Mediterraneo’, University of Trento, May 2001. Talk: L’allargamento dell’UE: sfide e prospettive nello scenario geopolitico europeo.
 Training seminar ‘Media and human rights’ organised by IPALMO and Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Napoli, March 2001. Talk: Quale Partenariato Euro-Mediterraneo: da Barcellona a Marsiglia.
 Jean Monnet Seminar ‘Constructing Security Partnership in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Mediterranean: the Role of the European Union and China’, University of Catania, January 2001. Paper: The Building of the Euro-Mediterranean Security System: prospects and pitfalls.
 International conference ‘L’identità europea alla fine del XX secolo’, Rome, October 2000. Paper: La cittadinanza europea e il processo di europeizzazione: verso quale identità europea?
 International Meeting ‘The Role of Transnational Political Parties in the Contemporary European Union’, Brussels, 18-19 May 1995. Research project: Relations between Interest Groups and Party Groups in the European Union.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• 2025 IPSA World Congress. Paper: ‘Exploring Gatekeepers of (Im)Mobility across EU Mediterranean Borders’, Seoul, 12-16 July 2025.
• 12th Biennial SGEU Conference. Paper: ‘EU border control by proxy: third countries acting as gatekeepers of mobility across EU borders’, Lisbon, 19-21 June 2024.
• IMISCOE Annual Conference. Paper: ‘Migration Governance in the Mediterranean: when Mobility Partnerships do no Favour Mobility’, with Giuseppe Cannata, Warsaw, 3-6 July 2023.
• 2023 SGRI Conference. Paper: ‘Beyond Mobility Partnership: The Fragile Nexus between Democracy and Migration Cooperation in the EU Southern Neighbourhood’, with Giuseppe Cannata, 15-16 June 2023, University of Catania.
• SISP Annual Conference, Rome, 8-10 September 2022. Paper: ‘Challenging the EU mobility-democracy nexus: Mobility and political immobilism in the Southern neighbourhood’ with Giuseppe Cannata.
• IMISCOE Annual (hybrid) Conference 29 June- 1 July 2022. Paper: (Im-)Mobility Partnerships: Challenges to EU Democracy Promotion through Mobility in the Mediterranean with Giuseppe Cannata.
• 11th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group of the European Union (SGUE) 8 – 10 June 2022, LUISS University. Papers: ‘The EU’s contribution to climate change migration governance in the wider Mediterranean: leadership or trompe-l’oeil?’, ‘Negotiation Lab on EU Migration Diplomacy: a simulation exercise’, and (with Giuseppe Cannata) (Im-)Mobility Partnerships: Challenges to EU Democracy Promotion through Mobility in the Mediterranean.
• 2022 ISA Annual Convention, March 28th - April 2nd, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Paper: The external dimension of EU Asylum and Migration on Policy: Externalization via agreements with EU border countries, co-authored with Francesca Longo and Giuseppe Cannata.
• #EISA 14th Pan-European Conference on IR, 13-17 September 2021. Paper: Climate Change Migration enters the Agenda of the Wider Mediterranean: The Long Way towards Global Governance.
• #ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 August - 3 September 2021. Paper: A discursive re-conceptualization of migration in the midst of the Covid19 crisis. A European Human and Humane Approach or Business as Usual?
• #26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, 10-15 July 2021. Paper: Sense-making of the political leadership and management of the Mediterranean migration crisis. A focus on the Italian Coast Guard and humanitarian practices.
• #ECPR Standing Group on the European Union virtual Conference, 10-12 June 2021. Paper: A Discursive Re-Conceptualization of Migration in the Midst of the Covid19 Crisis. A European Human and Humane Approach or Business as Usual?.
• #ECPR Standing Group on the European Union virtual Conference, 10-12 June 2021. Paper: Decentering Migration Governance Practices: Humanitarian Assistance and Border Control Strategies in the EU Peripheries.
• #ISA2021 Annual Convention, 6-9 April 2021. Paper: Conceptualising the Mediterranean Global South: A research agenda on security, borders and human flows.
• #WEB FORUM organized by IPSA RC44 on ‘New Threats, New Movements, New Nationalisms: The Risks and Securitization of COVID-19’, 17-18 September 2020. Paper: Legitimization of authoritarian measures under the pandemic COVID 19 effects on vulnerables: migrants' protection at risk in the Mediterranean (as usual?).
• 12th Pan-European Conference on IR, Prague, 12-15 September 2018. Paper: The Mediterranean Migration Crisis: Humanitarian practices and the implications of border control strategies in Italy.
• XXXII SISP Annual Conference, Torino, 6-8 September 2018. Paper: The Mediterranean Migration Crisis: Humanitarian practices and the implications of border control strategies.
• 5th EISA European Workshops of International Studies, Groningen, 6-9 June 2018. Paper: Humanitarian practices and the implications of border control strategies.
• 59th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 4-7 April 2018. Paper: Human (In)Security in the Mediterranean. SAR Operations and Emerging Norms to Address the Mediterranean Migration Crisis.
• 11th Pan-European Conference on IR, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017. Paper: ‘The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. Entrapped between the humanitarian approach and border control’.
• 11th Pan-European Conference on IR, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017. Paper: ‘When Responsibility to Protect ‘hits home’: the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the EU response’, co-authored with Iole Fontana.
• 58th ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore, 22-25 February 2017, Paper: ‘The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. Entrapped between the humanitarian approach and border control’.
• IASSR, XII European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences, Catania, 25-28 January 2017. Paper: ‘When Responsibility to Protect 'hits home': the Syrian refugee crisis’, presented with Iole Fontana.
• SISP Annual Conference, Milan, 15-17 September 2016. Paper: The EU, the Syrian crisis and R2P: between systemic constraints and internal divisions, presented with Iole Fontana.
• WORKSHOP on Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Athens, 26-28 May 2016. Paper: The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. Entrapped between the humanitarian approach and border security.
• International Jean Monnet Seminar ‘Migrants and Refugees Across Europe’, Rome, Italy, April 27-29, 2016. Paper: The Mare Nostrum Operation and the SAR approach: from an Italian response to a new European strategy to address the Mediterranean migration crisis?
• XIII SESAMO Conference: ‘Migranti: comunità, frontiere, memorie e conflitti’, Catania 17-19 March 2016. Paper: The EU and the Syrian crisis: reframing EU migration and asylum policies as an instrument of R2P(?), co-authored with Iole Fontana.
• 57th ISA Annual Convention: Exploring Peace, Atlanta, 16-19 March 2016. Paper: EU and Migration in the Mediterranean: Still a Divided Power Europe? The EU High Representative Mogherini looks for unity.
• ACCESS Europe ‘Europe in the World’. Workshop 'The European Union and the Arab Spring: Constructions of Security in the Southern Mediterranean', Amsterdam, 13-14 November 2014. Paper: EU Social and Cultural Construction of Security in the Southern Mediterranean, co-authored with Rosa Rossi.
• EISA-SGIR 8th Pan-European Conference on IR, Warsaw 18-21 September 2013. Papers: The EU as a democracy facilitator in the Mediterranean: challenges to domestic and international strategies; The EU as a ‘divided power Europe’ in the Mediterranean.
• 6th SGIR Conference ‘Regional Orders in the XXI Century, Trento 20-22 June 2013. Paper: The EU as a democracy facilitator in the Mediterranean: challenges to domestic and international strategies.
• RISP Conference, Siena University, 13-14 June 2013. Paper: The EU as a democracy facilitator in the Mediterranean: challenges to domestic and international strategies.
• 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Mediterranean Programme, Montecatini Terme, 21-24 March 2012. Paper: Current Patterns of Regional Cooperation and Political Crises in the MENA Region. A Test for a Divided Power Europe?
• SISP Annual Conference, Palermo, 8-10 September 2011. Paper: The EU as an International Actor in Trouble? Lessons from the Mediterranean Policy.
• WISC - Third Global International Studies Conference, Porto, 17-20 August 2011. Paper: The EU as a Multilateral Actor? Dealing with Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Sea.
• ECPR Fith Pan-European Conference, Porto, 24-26 June 2010. Paper: EU Mediterranean Volatile Regionalism.
• AUSE - XIII Summer School, Catania 1-3 October 2009. Paper: L'azione esterna dell'UE nel Mediterraneo.
• SISP Annual Congress, Roma, 17-19 September 2009. Paper: EU Mediterranean External Action.
• Congresso Annuale SISP, Cagliari, 21-23 Settembre 2005. Paper: L’Unione Europea come promotore di democrazia nel Mediterraneo e nei Balcani Occidentali? presented with Rosa Rossi.
• Congresso Annuale SISP, Padova, 15-17 Settembre 2004. Paper: L’influenza dell’Unione Europea sui cambiamenti politici nei paesi del Mediterraneo: tra liberalizzazione, transizioni bloccate, quasi-democrazie e autoritarismi elettorali.
• 5th Pan-European International Relations Conference ‘Constructing World Orders’, The Hague, 9-11 September 2004. Paper: EU attempts to export norms of good governance to the Mediterranean and the Western Balkans, presented with Rosa Rossi.
• ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Uppsala 13-18 April 2004. Paper: The constraints to the EU as a ‘norm exporter’ in the Mediterranean.
• 4th Pan-European International Relations Conference, University of Kent, 8-10 September 2001. Paper: The Construction of the EuroMediterranean Security System: prospects and pitfalls of the institutionalisation process of EuroMediterranean relations.
• 18th General IPRA Conference, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Commission, Tampere, August 2000. Paper: The Institutionalisation of the Barcelona Process: Different Layers of Regional Co-operation.
• ECSA’s Sixth Biennial International Conference, panel on ‘The EuroMediterranean Partnership’, Pittsburgh, June 1999. Paper: Commonalities and differences between the EuroMed partners: challenges to the multilateral track of the EuroMediterranean Partnership.
• Conferenza Annuale SISP, panel ‘Lo spazio politico europeo. Concetti, politiche pubbliche e sfide per l’Italia’, Milano, June 1998. Paper: Rappresentanza degli interessi e livello di governo: gli attori sub-nazionali come gruppi d’interesse.
• 25th ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, workshop ‘Private Organisations in Global Politics’, Bern, 27 February - 4 March 1997. Paper: Towards a Multi-Level European Interest Representation System: Sub-National Actors as Interest Groups.
• PhD Seminar ‘Who are the Europeans now? Identity and Citizenship in the 1990s’, Carlingford, Ireland, 25-27 October 1996. Paper: The European Citizenship: from the Content of the Treaty of Maastricht to the Public Opinion Attitudes.
• Postgraduate Seminar Week organised by the Santander Group on European Studies, University of Exeter, 6-13 July 1996. Paper: Relations between Interest Groups and Party Groups in the EU.
• Convegno Annuale SISP, Urbino, 13-15 June 1996. Paper: Sistema partitico e rappresentanza degli interessi: l’emergenza del livello comunitario.
• 2nd Pan-European Conference in International Relations, Paris, 13-16 September 1995. Paper: Interest Representation: from the National Dimension to the European Union level.
• 5th International Conference ‘Le elezioni del Parlamento Europeo, 1979-1994’, organised by Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE), Pavia, 6-8 October 1994. Paper: I cittadini e il Parlamento Europeo: partecipazione elettorale e sondaggi d’opinione.


Catania, 1st October 2025