Fabrizio Coticchia

Fabrizio Coticchia, MA, PhD
International Research Laboratory on Conflict,
Development and Global Politics - CDG Laboratory
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Via Cardinal Maffi 27 - 56127 Pisa
(+39) 050 882671
f.coticchia@sssup.it 

coticchia@alice.it
Fabrizio.coticchia@alumni.imtlucca.it
fabrizio.coticchia2@unibo.it

Education and training

November 2003- October 2004
Master Degree in International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna. Master Director Professor Angelo Panebianco. Highest grades at final exams.September 1998-June 2003

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Degree in International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Florence. Degree dissertation on the Chechen war and the European Public Opinion. Supervisor Professor Umberto Gori. Graduated with the highest mark: 110/110 cum laude.

Work Experience

November 2005 - November 2009
Tutor for the internship programme of the Master in International Relations, University of Bologna. Tutorship for students that apply fro a period of internship in firms, research centres, public bodies, universities, journals, embassies, ngo’s, international organizations. Assessment of human resources and management of bureaucratic and formal agreements. Managment of European project within the framework of the Life Long Learning Programme (Action Erasmus - Intensive Programme)

July 2007- September 2010
Tutor for the academic course "International Relations", Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna

November 2004 - to present
Collaboration with the ITPCM – International Training Programme for Conflict Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa:
Evaluation (ex ante, in itinere, ex post) and monitorign of development cooperation projects (especially on Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America)

November 2004 - tto present
News Editor of the Observatory on Italian Foreign Policy www.foreignpolicy.it .
The Observatory aims to provide world-wide scholars and observers with information and comments on Italian foreign policy at large.

August 2004 – October 2005
Internship at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt. Director Prof.
Harald Müller. Research group “Arms Control and Disarmament”. Final dissertation on the English parliamentary debate on the procurement process.

MAIN CONFERENCES HELD and PROCEEDINGS 

July 2010
“Projecting security at hot-spots borders through ESDP (CSDP) missions: a comparative analysis among Bosnia, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova”. Fabrizio Coticchia and Barbara Nicoletti, CISS (Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section) Millennium Conference, Venice, July 4-5,  2010.

May 2010
"Progettazione per la cooperazione allo sviluppo", Master in in Diplomazia e Politica Internazionale, Università di Bologna

April 2010
“Introduction to Soft Security”, IPESS Spring School in Bruxelles, Intensive Programme in European Soft Security”

March 2010
“Content Analysis and Interviews”, e “Case Studies Research”,  in "Module I Research Design & Skills", "Module II Qualitative Methodology", Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

February 2010
“The Phantom Menace: Organized Crime and ESDP missions”, Fabrizio Coticchia, Francesco Strazzari, ISA 2010 Annual Convention, New Orleans, 17-20 Febbraio.

Febbraio 2010
"Consules Model United Nations", Università di Firenze. "Country Profiles: Moldova and Marshall Islands"; "UN Position Paper".

February2010
"Consules Model United Nations", Università di Siena. "UN Position Paper for Niger".

December 2009
“Il costruttivismo nelle relazioni internazionali”, in “Teoria delle Relazioni Internazionali”, Prof. Francesco Strazzari, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Novembre 2009
“Teoria delle relazioni internazionali”, Master in “Relazioni Internazionali  Europa-America Latina”, Bologna.

November 2009
“Caucaso: conflitti alle porte dell'Europa", Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

November 2009
“Nothing to declare? The Italian counter-insurgency doctrine in the post-bipolar world”, Fabrizio Coticchia, Eugenio Pizzimenti, Giampiero Giacomello. SGRI (Standing Group Relazioni Internazionali – SISP), Milano, 18- 19 November  2009, Università degli Studi, Milano and Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano.

September 2009
“Il lungo sentiero sul lago di ghiaccio: l’evoluzione della politica di difesa italiana tra ‘nuove guerre’ e Peace Support Operations”, XXIII Congresso Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, Roma, LUISS Guido Carli, 17-19 September 2009,

 July  2009
“Le nuove guerre nel mondo contemporaneo”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Volterra.

May 2009

"Progettazione per la cooperazione allo sviluppo", Master in Relazioni Internazionali dell'Università di Bologna.

May 2009

"PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS  E “NUOVE GUERRE”: Una visione globale dei conflitti", LVIA course "Globaliation and Development". Florence, May, the 7st 2009

February 2009
"Consules Model United Nations", University of Florence. Two Lectures on "Country Profiles: Latvia and Turkmenistan"; and three lectures on "UN Position Paper".

February 2009
"All together now: Parliamentary Bipartisanship and Italian military operations abroad", Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello, ISA's 50th Annual Convention, New York, Febraury 15-18, 2009

February 2009
"A National way to PSO? The case of Italy: 1991-2008", Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello, ISA's 50th Annual Convention, New York, Febraury 15-18, 2009

September 2008
"Un'analisi empirica delle operazioni militari italiane all'estero: (1991-2008)", Fabrizio Coticchia e Giampiero Giacomello,  SISP XXII Convengo, Pavia  4-6 Settembre 2008

September 2008
"Away from war through words? Marxist and post-Marxist parties, peace discourse and the evolution of the Italian defence policy" Enrico Calossi, Fabio Calugi and Fabrizio Coticchia, Inaugural World Conference: Ideology and Discourse Analysis (IDA), 8-10 September 2008, Roskilde University, Denmark

July 2008
"Italian parties and military missions abroad: shared values or alternate coherence?" Enrico Calossi and Fabrizio Coticchia, World International Studies Committee (WISC) 2nd Global International Studies Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 23-26 July 2008

June 2008
“Una Nuova Cultura di Difesa? L’Evoluzione della Sicurezza Nazionale nell’Italia Contemporanea”, Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello, SGRI 2008 Bertinoro (FC) 27-28 June 2008

May 2008
“Civil-military cooperation among peoples: The Italian Experience in Peace Support Operations” Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello. The External and Internal Security Policy Nexus: Beyond the Domestic-International Divide, Research Conference in Stockholm on May 14-16, 2008. Co-organized by Forum for Security Studies and Stockholm Network for Security Studies (SNSS)

April 2008
“Una visione globale dei conflitti”, LVIA course "Globaliation and Development". Florence, April the 1st 2008

September 2007
“Le missioni italiane all'estero e i partiti della Seconda Repubblica: valori condivisi o scelte a coerenza alternata?”, Enrico Calossi e Fabrizio Coticchia, Paper presented at the XXI SISP Annual Confefrence, Catania, 20-22 settembre 2007

September 2007
“The transformation of military force and the Italian “Peace Support Operations”: political rhetoric and the protection of means and personnel”, Paper presented at the SGIR 6th PAN-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE, Torino, 12-15 Settembre.

April 2007
“The Ever-changing Land of the Principe? Government Majorities and Italy’s Foreign Policy” Giampiero Giacomello, Fabrizio Coticchia, Nicola Chelotti. PSA Annual Convention, Bath, April 2007.

March 2007
“"Peace Support Operations" and the Italian Defence Policy: elements of continuity and the role of a new “peace” frame”. Chicago, International Studies Association (ISA), 48th Annual Convention of the International . February 28 - March 3, 2007

March 2007
“Una visione globale dei conflitti”, LVIA course "Globaliation and Development". Florence, March 20th 2007

December 2006
“Analisi e valutazione delle attività di Cooperazione Internazionale della Regione Toscana. Focus sull'Europa Centro Orientale". Santa Maria al Monte (Pisa), Conference on Regional Cooperation.

September 2006
"Peace Support Operations e politica di difesa italiana. Elementi di continuità e discontinuità. Bologna, XX SISP Annual Convention.

May 2006
“Una via Toscana alla Cooperazione e alla Pace”, Florence, Speech for the Scuola Sant’Anna at the Regional Conference on Peace.

October 2005
“Una visione globale dei conflitti”, Verona, training for FOCSIV volunteers.

April 2005
“Nuove guerre e conflitti dimenticati”, Imperia, “Scuola Dante Alighieri”, training for teachers of the Province.

January 2005
“Una visione globale dei conflitti”, Rome, training for FOCSIV volunteers.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

"Italian Military Operations Abroad: Just Don't Call it War", P. Ignazi, G, Giacomello and F. Coticchia, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (forthcoming)

"La Power Projection dello Strumento Militare Italiano: da Desert Storm all’Operazione Leonte", in "Informazioni della Difesa" 2010 (forthcoming)

“Opinione Pubblica e Politica di Difesa”, in “Il Politico”, 1/2010, 223, pp. 169-205 

"Responsibility to protect", in "Manuale di Studi Strategici", G. Giacomello, G. Badialetti (eds.), Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2009, pp. 296-297

"Human Security", in "Manuale di Studi Strategici", G. Giacomello, G. Badialetti (eds.), Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2009, pp. 305-306

"The more the better? The new counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan", in ITPCM Newsletter, December 2009, pp. 18-22.

“Nuove minacce ed esigenze di protezione per uomini e mezzi: L’approccio italiano alle PSO e l’elaborazione di una futura strategia nazionale di counter insurgency”, CEMISS, Roma.  

“Le missioni italiane all'estero e i partiti della Seconda Repubblica: valori condivisi o scelte a coerenza alternata?” Enrico Calossi and Fabrizio Coticchia, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, Anno XVI, Terza serie- n.2, agosto 2009

"Security, Old Issues, New Frames. Securitization and Human Security", Fabrizio Coticchia and Federica Ferrari, in "Security in the West". ed. by G. Giacomello and C. Nation, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2009

"Helping Hands: Civil-Military Cooperation and Italy's Military Operation Abroad", F. Coticchia and G. Giacomello, in Small Wars and Insurgency, Vol. 20, No.4, 2009.

"Il paese dei cedri alla guerra del voto", in La Rivista il Mulino, 29 maggio 2009, http://www.rivistailmulino.it/

“Esiste una Via Italiana alla Cultura di Difesa?”, Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello, Biblioteca della Libertà, XLIII (2008), ottobre-dicembre, n. 193.

"Berlusconia? Italian Elections and the International Press" Newsletter n. 9, May 2008, www.foreignpolicy.it

“La Protezione del Personale, dei Mezzi e delle Unità nei Futuri Contesti Operativi. Evoluzione Concettuale e Possibili Sviluppi Tecnologici”, Antonio Ullo e Fabrizio Coticchia, Cemiss, Roma.

“La rete Seenet e il Programma – I Governi Locali Motori dello Sviluppo. Sintesi di un'esperienza”, A cura di Ucodep e Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Febbraio 2008.

"Government Majorities and Italy’s Foreign Policy” Giampiero Giacomello, Fabrizio Coticchia, Nicola Chelotti. Newsletter n. 6, November 2007, www.foreignpolicy.it

“In Harm's Way: Why and When a Modern Democracy Risks the Lives of Its Uniformed Citizens?” Giampiero Giacomello and Fabrizio Coticchia, European Security,vol 16, n.2, pp.163-182, June 2007.

"The European defence policy and the human security operations", Jurnal Kajian Wilayah Eropa (Indonesian Journal of European Studies), III (1) 2007: 89-98

"Peace Support Operations" e cambiamento del fenomeno bellico: I documenti ufficiali della Politica di Difesa Italiana, in “Informazioni della Difesa”, n. 3, 2007.

“Il Modello Toscano di Cooperazione ed il caso SEENET”, Bulletin of the Tuscan System of Decentralised Cooperation “Informazione per lo Sviluppo”, number 14, December 2006.

“Italian Foreign Policy and the International Press: The case of the Lebanese War”, newsletter (December 2006), wwww.foreignpolicy.it

"Il Ruolo Internazionale delle Forze Armate Italiane", Fabrizio Coticchia and Giampiero Giacomello, “Il Mulino” (n.4 July-August 2006).

”Italian Foreign Policy and International Press”, paper in the second newsletter (February 2006) of www.foreignpolicy.it

“La politica italiana per la riforma dell’Onu” “Il Mulino” (n.4 July-August 2005).

“Foreign Policy and the Reform of the UN Security Council”, newsletter (June 2005) of www.foreignpolicy.it