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Stefania Panebianco

Stefania Panebianco, PhD in International Relations, is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Catania, where she teaches Mediterranean Politics, International Relations and The EU as a Global Actor. She also teaches EU Migration Policies at LUISS-Guido Carli, Rome.

Member of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network EuroMedMig (EuroMediterranean Migration) funded by the European Union (2024-2028). Project starting date: 1 March 2025.

Member of the Quality Committee of the University of Catania. Member of the Quality Board of the EUNICE Education Alliance. International Evaluator for Accreditation Processes and ANVUR Evaluation Expert.

Visiting at King’s College, London, 2025, at University Pompeu Fabra, 2022, and IBEI, Barcelona, 2019.

Editorial board member of the journal The International Spectator, former co-editor of Global Affairs.

She is a member of the ECPR-SGEU Steering Committee and of the IPSA Research Committee on the European unification. She served for ECPR-SGIR, EISA and SISP steering committees and is one of the EISA founding members.

Jean Monnet Chair EUMedEA (2015-2018), Academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Information and Research Activity on ‘EU Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion’ (2010-2011) and Scientific Responsible of the European Jean Monnet Module on EU Roles in the International Governance (2005-2010), activities funded by the European Union Jean Monnet Action.

Contributed to the H2020 PROTECT project (2020-2023) and the H2020 TRANSCRISIS project (2015-2018).

She published in high-ranked journals such as Contemporary Italian Politics, European Foreign Affairs Review, Geopolitics, International Politics, Italian Political Science Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Third World Quarterly, among others.

Main publications:

  • Mediterranean migration governance and the role of the Italian coast guard: Varying political understandings of maritime operations in the 2010s, in ‘Contemporary Italian Politics’, 2022, DOI:10.1080/23248823.2022.2057046.
  • Editor, Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South. Challenges to Expanding Borders, series on Critical Security Studies in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 1-17. ISBN: 978-3-030-90295-7.
  • Co-editor (with Benjamin Tallis), Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities: Human Security, Border (In)Security and Mobility in Security, Special Issue of ‘International Politics’, vol. 59, issue 3, 2022.
  • Human Security at the Mediterranean Borders: Humanitarian Discourse in the EU Periphery, in ‘International Politics’, vol. 59, issue 3, 2022, pp. 428-448, IF: 0.874 [2020].
  • The EU and Migration in the Mediterranean. EU Borders’ Control by Proxy, ‘Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies’, December 2021, 48:6, pp. 1398-1416, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1851468 IF: 3.116.
  • Conceptualising the Mediterranean Global South: A research agenda on security, borders and human flows, in ‘De Europa’, Special Issue edited by Rosita Di Peri and Federico Donelli: The (re)configuration of the Euro-Mediterranean space after the 2011 Arab uprisings: borders, politics and identity, 2021, vol. 4, Issue n.1, pp. 17-34. ISSN 2611-853X available in OPEN ACCESS.
  • Towards a human and humane approach? The EU discourse on migration amidst the Covid-19 crisis, in ‘The International Spectator’, Special Issue edited by Daniela Huber and Leo Goretti: The Impact of the COVID Crisis on Regionalism, 2021, vol. 56, issue 2, pp. 19-37. DOI:10.1080/03932729.2021.1902650
  • Migration Governance in the Mediterranean. The Siracusa Experience, ‘Geopolitics’, 2021, 27:3, 752-772 https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1823837 IF: 2.65
  • The Mediterranean Migration Crisis: Humanitarian practices and migration governance in Italy, in Contemporary Italian Politics, 2019, vol. 11, n. 4, pp. 386-400: https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2019.1679961 .
  • When Responsibility to Protect ‘hits home’: The EU and the Syrian crisis, co-authored with Iole Fontana, in: ‘Third World Quarterly’, 2018, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 1-17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369035 IF: 1.754

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