Andrea Ruggeri (born 1982) is an Italian

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scholar. He has been Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the

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since 2019, and a

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in politics at

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, since 2014.

Career

Born in

Savona Savona (; ) is a seaport and (municipality) in the west part of the northern Italian region of Liguria, and the capital of the Province of Savona. Facing the Ligurian Sea, Savona is the main center of the Riviera di Ponente (the western se ...

in 1982,"Andrea Ruggeri: Curriculum Vitae"
University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 November 2019. Ruggeri carried out his

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at the

University of Genoa The University of Genoa () is a public research university. It is one of the largest universities in Italy and it is located in the city of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was fou ...

, graduating with a BA in international and diplomatic sciences in 2005. In 2006, he completed an MA in international relations at the

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, where he also carried out his

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supported by an

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(ESRC) studentship;"Andrea Ruggeri"
''Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford''. Retrieved 7 November 2019. his

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was awarded in 2011 for his

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"It depends: the spatial context of civil war". His PhD supervisor was Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. In 2010, Ruggeri was appointed to an assistant professorship in international relations at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

,"Professor Andrea Ruggeri"
''Brasenose College, Oxford''. Retrieved 7 November 2019. there he carried out research thanks also to the support of the Independent Social Research Foundation. He spent four years there, then he was elected a

in politics at

, in 2014; he was simultaneously appointed associate professor of quantitative methods in international relations at the

's Department of Politics and International Relations. In 2019, Ruggeri was awarded the title of

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of Political Science and International Relations. In 2019, Ruggeri was named as a co-investigator on an £895,000 research grant from the ESRC to explore "the consequences of United Nations peacekeeping withdrawal". He has created a Hub of Conflict, Peace and Security at the University of Oxford aiming "''to serve as a platform for the international community of researchers and practitioners, enabling them to connect, learn from each other, and to collaborate in preventing or mitigating conflict, and shaping a more secure future''". In 2020, Ruggeri published with Vincenzo Bove and Chiara Ruffa a book for the

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entitled "Composing Peace", the research for the book was funded by the

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, the

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and

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(Vetenskapsrådet).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruggeri, Andrea Living people International relations scholars 1982 births People from Savona University of Genoa alumni Alumni of the University of Essex Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford