Giuseppe Motta

Giuseppe Motta works as Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome where he teaches Eastern European History and Modern History. He has obtained a PhD degree in European History at the same university in December 2005 and has worked as contract professor also in the following universities: Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca (2003-2005, Romania), Viterbo (2003), Mostar (2008, Bosnia-Hercegovina) and Bergamo (2005-2009).

His researches have been focused on the history of national minorities in Central-Eastern Europe and on the impact of nationality question in the system of international relations. He has participated in numerous research projects such as PRIN 2008 as principal investigator of one of the research groups, or as principal investigator in the University Researches supported by Sapienza in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He has otherwise cooperated with Italian and foreign organizations such as Istituto di Studi politici S. Pio V of Rome; Istituto Jacques Maritain of Rome and Trieste, Dizionario biografico degli italiani Treccani, Historical Department of the Italian Army's General Staff in Rome. He has been editor in chief of the review "Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, he is member of the scientific council of the Institute for Italian-Romanian Studies of Cluj (Romania) and of the PHD course in European History at Sapienza University.

His works include the books: The Legacy of the First World War. The Minority Question in Transylvania, Petru Maior University Press, Targu Mures 2014; Less than Nations. Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, 2.vols, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2013; Robie. La schiavitù dei rom in Valacchia e Moldavia, Aracne, Roma, 2013; The Italian Military Governorship in South Tyrol and the Rise of Fascism, NuovaCultura, Roma, 2012; The Transylvanian Dispute after the First World War, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken 2012; Ardeal. Le origini della Transilvania romena, Nuova Cultura, Roma 2011; Le minoranze nel XX secolo. Dallo Stato nazionale all’integrazione europea, ed. FrancoAngeli, Milano 2006; Un rapporto difficile. Romania e Stati Uniti nel periodo interbellico, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2006; Viaggiando nelle terre romene. Italiani ed europei nei principati, Settecittà, Viterbo 2004.

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Fatih Tayfur

Associate Professor of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Departrment of International Relations. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the LSE in 1997. He has been teaching and writing about the Foreign Policy Analyis, International Political Economy, Southern Europe, and Euro-Mediterranean Relations for the past 20 years. He was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences between 2001-2009. He is the author of Semiperipheral Development and Foreign Policy. The Cases of Greece and Spain” Ashgate, (2003). His recent publication “The Debt Crisis of Southern Europe in a Historical Context: Greece, Spain and Portugal” is appeared in Z.Onis, F. Senses, C. Bakir (eds.) Global Crisis and New Economic Order, (2013) Among his publications on Euro-Mediterranean Relations are “Turkish Perceptions of Security and Migrations” in M.C. Henriques and M. Khachani (eds.) Security and Migrations in the Mediterranean, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006; “Security and the Mediterranean” Security Dialogue, Vol.36, No2, June 2005; “Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean” Perceptions, Vol.V, No3, September-November 2000, “Turkish Perceptions of the Mediterranenan”, EuroMesCo Papers, No.8, Lisbon: IEEI, 2000.

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EDOARDO BORIA 

2017: PhD in Relações Internacionais: Geopolítica e Geoeconomia at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Overall evaluation: 19/20

1994: Master Degree in Political Science at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Overall evaluation: 110/110

1990: Degree in Statistics at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Overall evaluation: 70/70

Main Professional and Research Experiences

Current Position: Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography (science-subject sectors of the European Research Council SH3_11 and SH1_13) at the Department of Political Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

2017 to present: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

2001-2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

1998-2001: Researcher for Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) within the International Relations Department. Participation in several projects of the V Framework Programme.

1993-1998: Project Manager for ENI/Agip Petroli within the Budget and Planning Office of the Information Technologies Department

Current teaching activities

- Geopolitics, Second Cycle Programme in International Relations, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

-Geography, First Cycle Programme in International Cooperation and Development, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Main scientific interests

-History of geographical and geopolitical thought

-Local identities in Europe

- History of cartography in a political and social perspective

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Books

- La Turchia nello spazio euro mediterraneo, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2014 (ed.)

- Carte come armi. Geopolitica, cartografia, comunicazione, Roma, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2012

-Cartografia e potere. Segni e rappresentazioni negli atlanti italiani del Novecento, Torino, UTET Università, 2007

-L’interpretazione in geopolitica. L’adesione della Turchia all’Unione Europea e le sue rappresentazioni, Roma, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2004

Refereed Articles in International Journals:

- (with Tania Rossetto), The practice of mapmaking: Bridging the gap between critical/textual and ethnographical research methods, in Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, vol.52, n.1, 2017, pp.32-48

- Mapping power, in Brunn S. e Dodge M. (eds.), Mapping across academia, Dordrecht, Springer, 2017, pp.129-150

- (with Daniele Scalea), Ucraina: esiste uno spazio economico, esiste un popolo?, in Moita L., Valença Pinto L. (ed.), Espaços Económicos e Espaços de Segurança, Lisbon, UAL, 2017, pp.255-274

- A matter of ethics and cartography. The map of the ambassador and the map of the journalist, in J-Reading, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, 1, 5, June, 2016, pp.97-102 http://www.j-reading.org/index.php/geography/article/view/132/121

- Representing the Politics of Borders: Unorthodox Maps in Reclus, Mackinder and Others, in Geopolitics, vol.20, issue 1, 2015, pp.142-170

- Violence beyond Trenches: Ethnographical Maps from Science to Propaganda and the Case of the Julian March, in Biagini A., Motta G. (eds.), The First World War: Analysis and Interpretations. Volume 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp.199-212

- La Padania: cronache da un territorio inventato, in Observare. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Integração regional e multilateralismo. Conjuntura internacional. Nacionalismo e separatismos. Janus 2015-2016 anuário de relações exteriores, Lisbona, 2015, pp.64-65

- Geographers and Maps: a Relationship in Crisis, in L'Espace Politique [En ligne], 21, 2013-3, mis en ligne le 12 décembre 2013, http://espacepolitique.revues.org/2802; DOI: 10.4000/espacepolitique.2802

- Mapping society: an ingenious but today outdated map, in J-Reading, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, 1, 2, June, 2013, pp.127-136 http://j-reading.org/index.php/geography/article/view/28

- Mapping time, in EspaceTemps.net, 23.01.2012, http://espacetemps.net/document9218.html

- (with Elena dell’Agnese), Frontiera/Frontier, in Giaccaria P., Paradiso M. (eds.), Mediterranean Lexicon, Roma, Società Geografica Italiana, 2012, pp.87-102

- Geopolitical maps: a sketch history of a neglected trend in cartography, in Geopolitics, volume 13, number 2, 2008, pp.278-308

- One stereotype, many representations: Turkey in Italian Geopolitics, in Geopolitics, volume 11, number 3, 2006, pp.484-506

- Emerging patterns in telematic flows among European countries and peculiarities of the Italian case, in “Networks and Communications Studies/NETCOM”, volume 15, n.1-2, 2001, pp.81-99

Current regular column in:

- Limes. Rivista italiana di Geopolitica

-J-Reading, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography

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Andrea Carteny

University researcher of East European History at Sapienza University of Rome, habilitated associate professor of Modern History and History of International Relations, teacher of Eurasian History at the Undergraduate and Master Courses of the Faculties of Letters and of Political Sciences. He is the Executive director of Rome Committee of Institute for the Study of Italian Risorgimento. 

Phd in History of Europe at Sapienza University, he spent his doctoral period of research in Romania, Transylvania, at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, where he taught Italian History and he was Executive director of the Institute of Italian and Romanian Studies. His topics are: Transylvanian question, Nationalism and Communism, Nationalism and transition to democracy, ethnic and civic nationalism, comparative regional nationalisms in Western and Eastern Europe, Basque and Catalan question, Spanish national question, Hungarian national question, Balkan national questions, theories on Eurasia, Imperial/Soviet/Post-Soviet Russia, Caucasian national questions, Azerbaijani studies, question of Italian Risorgimento. He speaks main Western languages and some Eastern ones (Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian; German and Russian reading). He was visiting researcher (Basileus scholarship) in Montenegro at the Institute of History and visiting professor at the Petru Maior University of Targu-Mures; he was researcher of CASD (Center of High Studies of Defense) and collaborates withwww.affarinternazionali.it of IAI (Institute of International Affairs) and Geopolitica.info. He takes part in several international conferences and scientific events in Italy and abroad (e.g. the ASEN conferences organized in London at the LSE and the ASN conventions organized at the Columbia University of New York); he is assistant for international cooperation of Prorector of International Relations of Sapienza University, prof. Antonello Biagini.

Among his works we mention:

2007: "I partiti politici in Rromania (1989-2004)" [Political parties in Romania]

2007: "Da Budapest a Bucarest. Saggi di storia e cultura" [From Budapest to Bucarest. Essayes of History and Culture]

2011: "Dal micro-nazionalismo all'Europa" [From micro-nationalism to Europe]

2013: "La Legione ungherese contro il Brigantaggio (1860-61)" [The Hungarian Legion against the Brigandage] 

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