Introduction

I joined the Department in August 2010 after studying for my PhD at the University of Essex (UK) and my BA at the University of Genoa (Italy). I have also spent some time studying at Paris VI and Institute Du Monde Arabe in Paris, France.

My current research deals with civil wars and peacekeeping. My broader research interests include collective political violence, state development, and comparative politics in Africa and Middle East.

My work  has been published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions, International Studies Review, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy and edited volumes.

My research uses quantitative methods and Geographical Information System (GIS), and I am very interested in combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.

I am member of  the Research Programme on Political Economy and Transitional Governance (PETGOV) at UvA .
I am member of  the Peacekeeping Working group organised by the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden) and I am a Young Fellow at the Independent Social Research Foundation (United Kingdom).

Since 2011 I am an elected counselor of the steering committee of the Network of European Peace Scientists.

Presentations

Future

• 23/25 June 2014, NEPS meeting, The Hague.
• 22/23 June 2014, KUBEC International Relations Workshop, Bruxelles, Belgium.
• 12/13 May 2014, ISRF Workshop, University of York, UK.
• 9 April 2014, Department of Political Science, University of Kent, UK.
• 26/29 March  2014, ISA Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Recent

• 22/24 November 2013, Rice University, USA.
• 18/22 September 2013, Conflict Research Society, University of  Essex, UK.
• 24/26 June 2013, European Network of Peace Scientists, Milan, Italy.
• 7/8 May 2013, ISRF Workshop, Cambridge, UK .
• 24/26 April 2013, ENCoRe Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 3/6 April 2013, ISA conference, San Francisco, USA
• 19 February 2013, Department of Government, University of Essex, UK
• January 2013, Visiting Professor,  Political Economy of Conflict, University of Genoa, Italy

• Andrea Ruggeri at Google Schoolar

• You can download some of my papers at Andrea Ruggeri - Academia.edu

General Research Interest

• Intrastate Conflict
• Collective Mobilization
• Research Methods
• Peacekeeping
• State Building and State Capacity
• Middle East
• Africa 

Ongoing Research Projects

1)  On Peacekeeping ( with Han Dorussen and Ismene Gizelis)

Folke Bernadotte Grant
- new GIS event data
 - Local dimension of peacekeeping
 - Micro versus Macro Peacekeeping Analysis

2) On Human Rights Promotion and Domestic Conflict (with Brian Burgoon)

NWO Grant
 -  new even data
 - effect of HR "naming & shaming"on domestic conflict

3) On Politics as Conflict: Violence and Politics in Italy 1943-1948 ( with Stefano Costalli)

-new GIS data
- local mobilization under authoritarian regimes
- effects of politics in times of violence  on politics in time of non-violence
- selective and strategic violence against civilians

4) On Political Entrepreneurs and  Civil Wars

ISRF Grant
- role of political entrepreneurs in civil wars
-influence and effect of different leaders

Academic Publications

2010   Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Andrea Ruggeri   "Political Opportunity Structures, Democracy, and Civil War" Journal of Peace Research, May 47(3)
2010   Ruggeri, Andrea "Geografia Politica del Conflitto Libanese"   [Political Geography of the Lebanese Conflict] in   S. Costalli and F.Moro "Le Guerre dentro lo Stato" [Civil Wars] (Milano, Italy: Vita e Pensiero)
2011   Ruggeri, Andrea; Gizelis, Ismene; Dorussen, Han "Event data as Bismarck's sausages? Intercoder Reliability, Coders Selection and Data Quality", International Interactions, September .
 2012 Ruggeri, Andrea . Reading Gramsci, Studying Collective Mobilization. International Studies Review.
2012 Ruggeri, Andrea and Burgoon, Brian . Human Rights "Naming & Shaming" and Civil War Violence. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy .

2012 Metternich, N.;Gleditsch, K.; Dorussen , H.; Ruggeri, A. "International Dimension ofInternationalConflict", in Elgar Companion to Civil War and Fragile States. Edited by Graham Brown and Arnim Langer. Forthcoming.

2013. Ruggeri, Andrea, T.I. Gizelis & H Dorussen (in press). Managing Mistrust: an Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa. Journal of Conflict Resolution .  

2014. Gleditsch,Kristian; Metternich, Nils and Ruggeri, Andrea.“Data and Progress in Peace and Conflict Research”, Journal of Peace Research,forthcoming. 

Data

Published Work and Data Replication

• Gleditsch & Ruggeri 2010 Replication

• Ruggeri,Gizelis,Dorussen2011 Replication

Working Papers

Andrea Ruggeri. "State Capacity, Conflict History, Transnational Dynamics and Civil War".
Andrea Ruggeri. "Political Entrepreneurs: Violence Diffusion and Escalation".
Tobias Böhmelt,Nils W.Metternich, Ulrich H. Pilster and Andrea Ruggeri. "The Effectiveness of UN-Missions in Civil Wars: Disaggregating Peacekeeping Missions, 1946-2004".
Ismene Gizelis,I.; Andrea Ruggeri,    and Han Dorussen. "U N Peacekeepers Deployment, Conflict Levels, and Loss of Strength Gradient".
Giulio Marchisio and Andrea Ruggeri. "Making History or History Effects? Patterns of Decolonization in British Colonies".
Andrea Ruggeri and Willem Schudel. "Foreign Aid and the Duration of Civil War"
Andrea Ruggeri and Schudel, Willem. " Foreign Aid, Domestic Corruption, and the Onset of Domestic Conflict ".
 

Book Reviews

2010 The Causes of War, by David Sobek, Journal of Peace Research 47(?)

2010 How Wars End, by Dan Reiter, Journal of Peace Research 47(?)

2009 Ending Wars, by Feargal Cochrane, Journal of Peace Research 46(5)

2008 InsideRebellion: The Politics of Insurgent, by Jeremy M. Weinstein, Political Studies Review 6(2)

Teaching 2010/2011

• State Building & State Failure (MA)
  
• European Union and Middle East Relations (MA)
  
• Research Project: Conflict Resolution (MA)

Teaching 2011/2012

First Semester

• Collective Political Violence (MA)

• European Union and Middle East Relations (MA)

• CPV syllabus

• EU-ME syllabus

  Second Semester

• State Failure&State Building (BA 3rd Year)

• MA Thesis Research Project - Civil Wars: Outbreak, Resolution, Post-Construction (MA)

• Syllabus Research Project. pdf

• Syllabus SB&SF

Visiting University of Genova, Italy

Political Economy of Conflict

• PEC Syllabus

• PEC slides

Andrea Ruggeri Curriculum Vitae

• Download Andrea Ruggeri CV

Education

2007- 2011 PhD in International Relations, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Title PhD Thesis: "It Depends: Spatial Context and Civil War". Phd Board: Prof. Kristian S. Gleditsch (Supervisor), Prof. Hugh Ward and Dr. Sarah Birch
2005-2006 MA in International Relations, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Overall Mark: Pass with Merit
2001-2005 BA in International and Diplomatic Sciences, University of Genoa, ItalyOverallMark: 110 cum laude
1997-2001 Gymnasium Diploma, Liceo "G.Chiabrera", Savona , Italy Overall Mark: 85/100

Employment

2013- current  Assistant Professor of International Relations with Tenure, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2010- 2013 Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2008- 2010 ESRC Research Officer, Geographic Resources of War (GROW-Project). This project is undertaken under supervision of ProfessorHan Dorussen and Professor Kristian S. Gleditsch.
2008-2009 Teaching Assistant, Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis, Introduction to Duration Model, Prof. Matt Golder
2008 Assistant Research, University of Essex, United Kingdom Task: Analysis EU reports on elections in Africa and coding reports This project is undertaken under supervision of Dr. Sarah Birch
2007- 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Government, University of Essex. Course taught: Introduction to International Relations (First Year Course), Dr. Natasha Ezrow
2006-2008 Assistant Research, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Tasks: analysing and coding reports on UN peacekeeping operations into a new database. This project is undertaken under supervision of Dr. Han Dorussen and Dr. Ismene Gizelis.

Additional Courses

2009   An Introduction to R, University of Essex, Instructors: Nils Weidman and Kristian Gleditsch, 5-7 October
2009 Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis, University of Essex, United Kingdom . Courses : Empirical Models of Context Conditionality, (Inter)Dependence, and Endogeneity (Robert Franzese)
2009 Lipari Summer School in Computational Models of Political and Social Events
2008 Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Courses : Spatial Econometrics. (Jude Hays)
2008 Geographic Information System (GIS) for Conflict and Peace Studies, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
2007 Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Courses : Survival Analysis ;Game Theory (Brian Humes).
2006 Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Courses : Introduction to Time Series Analysis.
2003 Summer Course in French, Accord School, Paris, France.

Awards, Scholarships, and Grants

2012-2013 Young Researcher Grant, Independent Social Research Foundation, One Year Research Leave ( 58,000 Euros)
2011 National Representative (The Netherlands ) for   the EU COST    Action: European Network for Conflict Research (ENCoRe).   This is a grant for the duration of 4 years with a total of 10 EU countries.
2011 Researcher in the NWO funded project ( PI Brian Burgoon) on Human Rights and      Peacemaking
2010 Folke Bernadotte Acadamy, Automated Peacekeping Events Dataset, (21,862 Euros)
2010 Cedric Smith Prize for Peace and Conflict Research, Conflict Research Society
2010 European Science Foundation, Dissemination Grant (3,400 Euros),Young Researchers Workshop, Stockholm 8th September 2010
2010 International Studies AssociationTravel Grant
2008 Robert Skills Research Conference Fund
2007-2008 Departmental Scholarship, Department of Government, University of Essex
2007-2010 ESRC +3 Quota Award, Economic and Social Research Council (UK). This award consists of a three-year scholarship which covers all academic fees during a doctoral programme.
2004-2005 Erasmus Scholarship for Research Dissertation, Université Denis-Diderot, ParisVI, Paris, France

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