Stefano Braghiroli
Associate Professor, PhD Research: |
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Education | |
2010 | PhD (Comparative and European Politics), University of Siena, Italy |
2007 | MA (Comparative and European Politics), University of Siena, Italy |
2005 | MA (Political Science) (magna cum laude), University of Bologna, Italy |
Academic career | |
Since 2020 | Associate Professor of European Studies Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu |
2016-2020 | Lecturer Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu |
2014-2015 | Lecturer Institute of Government and politics/Europeab College, University of Tartu |
2012-2014 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow University of Tartu |
2012 | TÜBİTAK Fellow Bahçeşehir University Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM), Istanbul |
2011-2012 | Yggdrasil Fellow ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo |
2010-2011 | Research assistant Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena |
Academic service | |
Since 2016 | Programme manager of the Master programmes in EU-RUssia Studies and European Studies, J. Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu |
2014-2015 | Member of the Council of the Master programmes in EU-Russia Studies and European Studies, European College of the University of Tartu |
Organisational membership | |
Member University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) |
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Member Italian Political Science Association (SISP) |
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Member Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) |
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Courses taught | |
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Recent research grants and awards | |
Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme – Work packages 2 and 4 - Georgia. | |
Project title: “An analysis of voting dynamics in the European Parliament on issues involving the Russian Federation and EU-Russia relations” (ERMOS 95). ERMOS research grant programme, funded by the Estonian Science Foundation within the framework of the FP7 Marie Curie COFUND the “People” Programme. | |
Project title: “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? An Empirical Assessment of what MEPs think and how the actually vote with respect to Turkey and Turkish Membership”; funded by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey – TUBİTAK. | |
Project title: “So Special, so Normal: An Analysis of the Voting Dynamics in the EP and their Macro-Level implications on the Democratic Nature of the EU”; Yggdrasil research grant programme, funded by the Research Council of Norway. | |
Publications (selection) | |
Book chapters | |
“An Emerging Divide? Assessing the Impact of the Euro Crisis on the Voting Alignments of the European Parliament”. In Elisabetta De Giorgi and Chaterine Moury, Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis (Routledge, 2015). | |
(with Giulia Sandri). Religion at the European Parliament: the Italian case. In François Foret ed., Religion at the European Parliament and in European multi-level governance (Routledge, 2015). | |
(with Nelli Babayan). “Googling Democracy: A Comparison of Democracy Promoters on the Internet”. In Jonathan Bishop and Ashu Solo eds., Politics in the Information Age (IGI Publishing, 2014). | |
“Portraying the Dragon: Reporting and Understanding Asia in Italy”. In Michael Bruter, Natalia Chaban, Martin Holland, and Ronan Lenihan eds., Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Images of a Rising Giant (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag). | |
(with Luca Verzichelli) “Condemned to ineffectiveness? Pd and IdV between parliamentary opposition and coalition strategies”. In Elisabetta Gualmini and Eleonora Pasotti eds., Italian Politics 2011 (London: Berghaham Press, 2011). | |
“Lithuania”. In Juliet Lodge ed., The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament (London: Palgrave, 2010). | |
Peer-reviewed articles | |
“Voting on Russia in the European Parliament: the Role of National and Party Group Affiliations“, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 23 (1), 2015. | |
“An Emerging Divide? Assessing the Impact of the Euro Crisis on the Voting Alignments of the European Parliament“, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 21(1), 2014. | |
(with Giulia Sandri) “Religion at the European Parliament: the Italian case“; Religion, State and Society, 42 (2-3), 2014. | |
“Looking at Ankara from Strasbourg: An Empirical Assessment of MEPs' Voting on and Framing of Turkey,” International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies, 6(1), 2013. | |
“Je t'aime… moi non plus! An empirical assessment of MEPs’ voting behaviour on Turkey and Turkish membership”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 14(1), 2012. | |
(with Nelli Babayan) “Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo? Assessing the Imperialist Aspirations of the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States”, Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 5(2), July 2011. |