Matteo Fumagalli

Associate Professor

Head of Department, Department of International Relations and European Studies

Department of International Relations and European Studies

Department of Political Science

Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations

Asia Research Initiative (ARI)

Building:

Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower

Room:

307

Phone number:

+36 1 327-3000/2219

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Qualifications:

PhD, University of Edinburgh

Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:

Matteo joined IRES in 2007. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2005. Before joining CEU, Matteo worked at University College Dublin (Ireland), the University of Edinburgh, and St Andrews University in the UK.

Matteo’s interests include Central Asian, Caucasian and post-Soviet politics more broadly; the comparative study of authoritarianism; international security; the politics of development; ethno -nationalism, migration, and diasporas; state failure and collapse. His recent publications include articles in the International Political Science Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Central Asian Survey and Osteuropa. Matteo has been recipient of several research grants and awards, from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the American Political Science Association, the Open Society Foundations’ Higher Education Support Program, the International Studies Association, and the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies.

Matteo is Academic Director of ‘Rethinking the International Security Agenda’, a project funded by the Open Society Foundations. He currently serves on the advisory board of the OSF’s Central Asia Research and Training Initiative (CARTI), and leads the ‘Tajikistan and Afghanistan Access Program’ (OSF/HESP). Matteo sits on the executive committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association (ISA), where he has been Program Co-Chair for the ISA Conventions since 2009. He has consulted the UK Ministry of Defense, the Italian Foreign Ministry, the High Commissioner on Ethnic Minorities (HCNM/OSCE), and the UK Ethnic Minority Law Centre. He regularly contributes to Oxford Analytica and the Johns Hopkins University’s Central Asia and the Caucasus Analyst.

At CEU Matteo teaches courses on Energy and Security in Central Asia (in IRES) and on post-Soviet politics (in PolSci). Matteo has been the Director of the CEU Asia Research Initiative (ARI) since 2009.

Courses taught:

AY 2010/11
Conflict, Security, and Development (PhD, Political Science, International Relations Track)
Energy and Security in Central Asia (MA, IRES)
States, Networks, and Power in post-Soviet politics (MA, PolSci)

AY 2009/2010
Energy and Security in the Caucasus and Central Asia (MA, IRES)
Political Dynamics: Comparative Authoritarianism (PhD, Political Science, Comparative Politics Track)

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