Elena Baracani

Elena Baracani holds the Jean Monnet Chair EUGlobA (The EU as a Global Actor). She is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Europe in World Politics, EU Institutions, and the workshop on EU foreign policy. She is also Deputy Director of the Master Programme in International Relations and part of the academic board of the PhD Programme of Political and Social Sciences. She is Visiting Professor at the Stanford Program in Florence since 2011. Her research interests focus on EU foreign policy. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florence in 2006, and in 2008 won a European Union Institute for Security Studies Visiting Fellowship and a post-doc research grant in the framework of the 'European Foreign and Security Policy Studies' Program. She has taught BA, MA, and PhD courses in Political Science at both Italian and American universities (University of Florence, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, LUISS, Rutgers University, Kent State University, and California State University).