Raffaele Marchetti (Laurea, Rome; PhD, London) is assistant professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS. He is also Junior Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate GEM: Globalization, the EU, and Multilateralism (section AMETRINE), and Associate Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Global Politics.
His research interest concerns global politics and governance, world order, transnational civil society, and democracy.
He was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Scientific coordinator of FP6 Strep project SHUR. Human Rights in Conflicts: The Role of Civil Society, research fellow in the FP6 research project DEMOS. Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society, and in the Network of Excellent: GARNET. Global Governance, Regionalisation & Regulation: The Role of the EU.
He has taught at LSE, American University of Rome, John Cabot University, and University of Naples L’Orientale. He carried out research at University of Exeter, University of Nottingham, and University of Urbino.
In 2005, he received the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award by the International Studies Association-ISA, Section on International Organization.
Among his publications: Global Democracy: For and Against. Ethical Theory, Institutional Design, and Social Struggles (Routledge, 2008, Italian trans. Vita e Pensiero, 2010). European Union and Global Democracy (co-ed., CPI, 2009). Manuale di politica internazionale, (co-au., UBE, 2010), Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (co-ed., Cambridge University Press, forth. 2011), Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (co-ed., United Nations University Press, forth. 2011), Conflict Society and Peacebuilding (co-ed., Routledge, forth. 2011), and Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice (co-ed. Routledge, forth, 2012). His articles appeared, among other journals, in Review of International Studies Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, International Studies Review, Ethics and International Affairs, Constellations, and Global Society.
His is currently working on a book on Constructing Global Legitimacy. The Competition for World Order
Personal web-page: www.docenti.luiss.it/rmarchetti
