ERIS is a group addressing emerging fields of research in international/transnational politics, with a focus on regional security, critical geopolitics and political economy. We study conflict and social change with attention to dynamics of peripheralization, control and liberation. Our main research lines cluster around:

• critical approaches to security: security (and humanitarian) discourses, practices and technologies;
• reconfigurations of territoriality and regional security models: critical border studies, hybrid security orders, extra-legal economies and resource wars;
• state formation and transformation: transnational organised crime, terrorism, foreign fighters.

Our research projects focus on the MENA region, the Sahel and West Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans. 

Ongoing projects:

• (2017-18) EUNPACK - A conflict sensititve unpacking of the EU comprehensive approach to conflict and crisis mechanism, funded by the EU H2020
• 2018) CREATES - Creating Responsive Engaging and Tailored Education with Students, funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program

Recent Publications

• Working paper on the implementation of EU crisis response in Libya (2018), with contributions by Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari
• Working paper on the implementation of EU crisis response in Ukraine (2018), with contributions by Alessandra Russo
• Triggering Terror Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe (2018), edited by Nils Duquet, with contributions by Francesco Strazzari and Francesca Zampagni
• Policy brief: A summary of perception studies in Ukraine (2017), with contributions by Alessandra Russo
• Policy brief: Perceptions about the EU’s Crisis Response in Libya (2017), with contributions by Luca Raineri 

Source: Mario Ragazzi: www.ragazziconsulting.com