Fabrizio Tassinari


Fabrizio Tassinari is an Italian political scientist. He is the founding executive director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, a flagship initiative of the European Commission.
Prior to that, Tassinari served as head of foreign policy studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies, the Danish government's independent research institution on foreign affairs, which he had joined as a senior researcher in 2009. A recipient of a German government’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation career award, he is an adjunct professor of comparative politics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
After his doctorate, Tassinari was an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen and a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Among his advisory positions, he served as a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2007, he was a fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and an adjunct fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Tassinari graduated summa cum laude in political science from the University of Rome in 2000 and earned his PhD in political science from the University of Copenhagen in 2004.

Research

Tassinari has researched and published extensively on issues of international security and foreign policy analysis, with an empirical focus on the wider Europe and its surrounding regions. His book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors, analyses the sources and origins of Europe's threat perception, and also appeared in an updated Turkish-language edition for the mass market. Tassinari's academic contributions have appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
A regular columnist on international affairs, Tassinari’s commentaries regularly appear in mainstream international media. He has advised several Western governments and international organisations; his research on Black Sea cooperation provided the blueprint and the official name of the Black Sea Synergy, a European Union policy.

Selected bibliography

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