
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.

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Ongoing projects:
- (2020) WEPPS – Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
- (2020-22) PREVEX – Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: Strengthening Resilience in Enabling Environments, funded by EU H2020
- (2019-20) FRAGVENT – Fragile states and violent entrepreneurs: conflict, climate, refugees, funded by the Norwegian Research Council
- (2018) CREATES – Creating Responsive Engaging and Tailored Education with Students, funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program
Recent Publications
- Raineri L., Strazzari F., 2019. (B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region. Ethnopolitics 18(5)
- Polese A., Russo A., Strazzari F., (eds.) 2019. Governance Beyond the Law: the immoral, the illegal, the informal. London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Russo A., Strazzari F., (eds.) 2019. Islands of Organised Crime. European Review of Organised Crime 5(1) – Special Issue
- Martini A., 2019. The Syrian wars of words: international and local instrumentalisations of the war on terror. Third World Quarterly
- Raineri L. 2019. Security and informality in Libya: militarisation without military?. Conflict, Security & Development 19(6)
- Dogan S., 2019. Rosa Luxemburg e la Questione Femminile. Critica Marxista 4(5)
- Buscemi F., 2019. Armed Political Orders through the Prism of Arms: Relations between Weapons and Insurgencies in Myanmar And Ukraine. Interdisciplinary Political Studies 5(1)
- Piras E., 2019. Migration and Theories of Justice: a Critical Reappraisal. Soft Power. Revista euroamericana de teoría e historia de la política y del derecho 6(1)
- 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
Source: Mario Ragazzi: www.ragazziconsulting.com