About

Daniela Irrera is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Centre for High Defence Studies, National Defence University, Rome. She is also Visiting Professor of Political Violence and Terrorism and Civil Society and Sustainability at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and member of the Academic Board of the PhD School at the European Defence and Security College (ESDC), in Brussels. Before joining CASD in Rome, she was Associate Professor at the University of Catania. Daniela's simulation Game of Peace was awarded as one of the best European teaching practices that enhance learning for international students, according to the survey carried out by the ECPR Standing Group on Learning and Teaching Politics as part of the IMPACT Project (Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships 2019-1-SK01-KA203-060671). She currently serves as co-convenor of the BISA Working Group on Foreign Policy, associate editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, co-editor of the Springer book series on Non-State Actors in International Relations, together with Marianna Charountaki, co-editor (together with Hana Kubatova) of the Blog Series on Constraints to Academic Freedom, as part of the ECPR blog The Loop. She is also a member of the Management Committee of the COST CA21133 – Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security (GLITSS) and leads the Working Group 2: Platform: the governance of illicit trade. She has held a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Delaware, US; a DAAD fellowship at The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and a Marie Curie fellowship at UFSC, Brazil. She has been visiting researcher at the EU Centre of Excellence at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has authored and co-edited 11 books and more than 70 publications in the field of political science and international relations. Her primary research focuses on action and influence on global politics by non-state actors, both positive (civil society organisations and NGOs) and negative (organised crime and terrorism). As for policy impact, she serves as a consultant to the Radicalisation Awareness Network Policy Support (RAN PS), EU Commission and to the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries. She regularly contributes to policy briefs, blog posts of expert networks, and to mass media on major international issues.

Research Interests

Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Ethnic Conflict, European Union, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Migration, Political Violence, Security, Terrorism, Developing World Politics, UN, War, Peace

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• International Relations
• Teaching and Learning Politics
• Organised Crime
• Political Violence
• Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
• European Union