Fabrizio Tassinari
Non-Resident Fellow
Fabrizio Tassinari, PhD, is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS.
Since February 2009, he is a Senior Researcher and Head of Foreign Policy and EU Studies Unit . He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.
From 2005 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a researcher in an EU Commission’s network managed by Humboldt University, Berlin.
Dr. Tassinari writes on issues relating to European integration and security, with particular reference to the political economy of the wider European neighborhood: regional security and cooperation in the Mediterranean, the Western Balkans, the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; EU and U.S. relations with, i.a., Russia and Turkey.
His book Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors was published by Praeger in September 2009.
Recent publications include:
- “Institutions, Power, and Ideas in Turkey's European Integration Process" in Noel Parker (ed.) The Geopolitics of Europe's Identity, Palgrave-McMillan, New York and London, 2008.
- “Whole, Free and Integrated? A Transatlantic Perspective on the European Neighbourhood”, CEPS Working Document, No. 271,CEPS, Brussels, 2007
- “The Pragmatic Option” in Russia in Global Affairs vol. 4 n. 4, 2006 (with Marius Vahl).
- “A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative” CEPS Policy Brief No. 105, 2006.
- Wider Europe (co-ed. with Pertti Joenniemi and Uffe Jakobsen), Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, 2006.
- “A New Agreement between the EU and Russia: Why, What and When?” CEPS Policy Brief No. 103, 2006 (with Michael Emerson and Marius Vahl).
- “Security and Integration in the EU Neighbourhood: the Case for Regionalism” CEPS Working Document N. 226, Brussels, 2005.
Contact Information:
Email: fta@diis.dk
Phone: +45 3269 8957
www.fabriziotassinari.net





