Francesco Moro

Expertise

Regions

• Africa
• Balkans
• Guatemala
• South Africa
• Western Europe

Topics

• Ethnic Conflict
• Nation-building and Democratization
• Strategic and Security Issues

Languages

• French
• Italian

Background and Education

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna. Adjunct Professor, LUISS Guido Carli and Italian Air Force’s Institute of Military Aeronautical Sciences; Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan Bicocca; Consultant, United Nations Interregional Crime Research Institute; Visiting scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Post-doctoral fellow, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane; Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence. Laurea (’03) and PhD (’08), University of Florence; MA, Johns Hopkins SAIS (BC ’04, DC ’06)

Publications: The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective, Adapt, Improvise, Overcome? co-author with F. Coticchia (2015); Il ''buon ribelle''. Organizzazioni armate e violenza sui civili nei conflitti intrastatali (2012); author of articles on collective violence, international intervention, and international political theory published in various sources including Italian Political Science Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Conflict Resolution.