1. Political economy of democratic
transitions
2. Globalization in the
post-bipolar world
3. EU's external economic action
(EU-World Bank, development policymaking)
4. IPE and development studies
(Neo-Gramscian theories)
5. The political determinants of
international trade
6. IPE and system-wide economic crises
1.Refinement of previous empirical research on democracy and
economic openness, further analysis on democratic transitions.
Monograph: Alle radici della globalizzazione, Una
indagine sulle cause politiche del commercio, Il Mulino (2010).
Investigation on the case of Russian regress to authoritarianism:
relations between economic cycles and elites-civil society
interactions in transition dynamics. Outputs: Baroncelli, ' La
political economy del regresso autocratico: interpretazioni
correnti e nuovi spunti sul caso della Russia', 1987-2007,
Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 3, 2010 and Baroncelli, The
Political Economy of Oligarchic Stagnation. Russia - In Transition
to Where? in Baracani (ed) Democratization and Hybrid Regimes.
International Anchoring and Domestic Dynamics in European
Post-Soviet States, 2010. Both outputs have benefitted from
funds under the program PRIN 2005 'The end of the cold war or the
success of globalization?', coordinated by L.Nuti (national) and
M.Cesa (Univ. of Bologna).
Participates in the Progetto Strategico Giovani
MIUR-Unibo 2008/10, 'La Trasformazione del Sistema Internazionale
negli anni Settanta', coordinated by M. Del Pero, working
on 'La democrazia tra transizione e regresso: tradizione e
innovazione nell'analisi dei processi di mutamento politico', in
Baroncelli, Del Pero, Fiori e Pallotti, Crisi, trasformazioni,
continuità. Il sistema internazionale negli anni Settanta. p.
9-33, Rubbettino 2012.
Work on typologies of democratic trajectories was presented and
discussed at conferences during 2009, and a theoretical recognition
on democractic peace theory was published as a chapter in an edited
volume on major works in IR: 'Bruce Russett e John Oneal: la
teoria neokantiana della pace perpetua', in Andreatta, F.
(ed), Le grandi opere delle relazioni internazionali (Il
Mulino 2011). Further research on democracy, war and
globalization is currently underway, benefitting from funds under
the program PRIN 2008 "The Causes of Inter-State War since the End
of the Cold War", coordinated by F.Andreatta (national and Univ. of
Bologna).
2. Completion of the Research on the external image of the EU at
the World Bank during 2010 (Garnet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Coordinator: S.Lucarelli). Research Report: 'Views from the
World Bank' in Lucarelli e Fioramonti, Research Report on the
Project: The External Image of the European Union - Phase Two,
GARNET Working Paper 62/09 (2009), and Baroncelli, 'Aid,
Trade and Development: World Bank's Views on the EU's Role in the
Global Political Economy', in S. Lucarelli and L. Fioramonti
(eds), External Perceptions of the European Union as a
Global Actor, p. 150-164 (Routledge 2010).
3. Research on EU-World Bank relations, which are
conceptualized as a form of hybrid delecation. Her research
focuses on both inter-instituional cooperation at the high
level and field performance, on selected issues in the ECA, MENA
and SSA regions.
She is a member of the EUPERFORM Project Group, financed
through the ECRP V Eurocores (2009-2012), led by Knud Erik
Jorgensen, within which she leads the Unibo Associate
Group with a Project on ‘The EU at the World Bank: assessing
effectiveness', Output: Baroncelli, “The EU at the
World Bank: Institutional and Policy Performance”, Journal of
European Integration, 6, 33, 2011; Baroncelli, ‘The World
Bank', in K.E. Jorgensen and K.V. Laatikainen (eds), Handbook on
Europe and International Institutions, Routledge 2012; and
the forthcoming monograph The European Union, the World
Bank and the Policymaking of Aid: Cooperation among
Developers, Ashgate 2013.
Through the support of PRIN 2008 she has further deepened her
research on mission changes and performance evolution of the World
Bank in Baroncelli, 'La Banca Mondiale e la lotta alla povertà nel
mondo globalizzato', in L.Zambernardi (ed), Scenari
di transizione. La politica internazionale nel XXI secolo,
Il Mulino 2012, and Baroncelli, 'La Banca Mondiale e lo
sviluppo economico', in Belloni, R., Moschella, M. e Sicurelli, D.
(eds) Le organizzazioni internazionali: struttura, funzioni,
impatto, Il Mulino 2013, forthcoming.
4.Research on IR Neo-Gramscian School, with particular reference
to the way in which Gramsci's intuitions on nexuses between
development and capitalism have been received and elaborated by the
main Neo-Gramscian scholars in IR and IPE. Co-edited book:
anthology of Neo-Gramscian articles (Introduction and translation).
Il Mulino 2009.
5. Critical review of Susan Strange's seminal contribution to
IPE studies, with particular reference to her conceptualization of
power, and her engagement with the academic establishment towards
the creation of IPE as a new approach to the study of
political-economic dynamics at the international level, ‘Susan
Strange: The Authority of Questioning', in M.Bull, D.Campus e
G.Pasquino (eds), Maestri of Political Science II,
(ECPR Press 2011).
6. In the wider context of her ongoing research on the political
determinants of international trade, she has deepened the analysis
on the nexuses among militarized disputes, diplomacy and trade in
Pakistan-India relations, investigated in the monograph
Conflict and regional integration between Pakistan and India.
An inquiry into the economic gains and the “peace dividend” from
SAFTA (2012)
7. She is co-editor, with R. Mulé, of the book 'The politcal economy of crisis and change in the new global context' (Egea, Milano), where she investigates the relation bewteen political and economic, and, respectively, domestic, systemic and relational determinants of system-wide economic shocks. She analyzes US priors to the 2007-09 crisis and subsequent policy responses, providing conceptual elements towards a political theory of global crises.