{"id":1651,"date":"2021-01-04T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd.luiss.it\/politics\/?page_id=1651"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:52:48","slug":"current-phd-candidates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd.luiss.it\/politics\/about-us\/current-phd-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Current PhD Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

William John Atkinson<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Emotions and Elections: the effects of anger and anxiety on voter behaviour. (Cycle 39)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Federico Bonomi<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Tying hands or sharing risks? Explaining the evolution of the EU fiscal governance from the financial crisis to the pandemic. (Cycle 38)<\/p>\n

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Federico Maria Brogi Carraroli<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>\u201cNew Forms of Economic Coercion Enabled by European Industrial Decarbonization\u201d<\/span>\u00a0(Cycle 41)<\/p>\n

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Alessandro Cangiano<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong>Decolonizing Climate Justice: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Carbon Offsetting in the Global South (Cycle 41)<\/p>\n

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Maximilian Br\u00fcning<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong> European cultural (heritage) policy and its approach to sustainable development. (Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Noemi Ciarniello<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong> Feminism, neoliberalism and neoconservatism, reurgences of Italian Destra Sociale. (Cycle 36)<\/p>\n

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Adam Courtley<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Ambition and Expression: Examining Rhetorical Shifts in UK Parliamentary Discourse (2015-2019).\u00a0(Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Elise Daniaud Oudeh<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Twittering Syria in Russian Media: an approach to Russian political strategies at national and international level (2015-2021). <\/span>(Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Mark Andreas Felix<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Climate Change and Structural Injustice: How These Links Shape Effects and Approaches. (Cycle 39)<\/p>\n

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Carmelo Fronte<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong> The places of the \u201cinvisibles\u201d: peripherialization as a source of abstentionism and propensity to vote to demarcationist parties in European Parliament elections (2004-2024). (Cycle 40)<\/p>\n

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Mattia Gatti<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Filling The Political SupplyGap? Western European Radical Left PartiesTargeting the Left-Authoritarians\u2019 Quadrant. (Cycle 38)<\/p>\n

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Gemma Gresele<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Equity or Disparity? Fiscal Decentralization\u2019s Role in Healthcare Performance\u201d.(Cycle 41)<\/p>\n

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Alberto Manuel Hers Martinez<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong> Collective self-determination in times of depoliticization: an exploration of the site of democratic politics. (Cycle 36)<\/p>\n

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Nils Fabian M\u00fcller<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Failing forward (in)formally? Investigating the Resurgence of \u2018Deals\u2019 and Informalisation Tendencies within European External Migration Governance. (Cycle 41)<\/p>\n

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Maximilian Kunte\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>A New Religious Conflict in Germany? Impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Russian Orthodox Church. (Cycle 41)<\/div>\n
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Aslinur Inalci Akpinar<\/a><\/div>\n
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Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>The Influence of EU Accession on Civil Society Organizations\u2019 Ability to Fight Corruption in the Western Balkans. (Cycle 39)<\/div>\n
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Rebecca Maria Perla Iotti<\/a><\/div>\n
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Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong><\/strong>Countering Chinese Economic Coercion: analyzing the Factors underlying its Success, and Countermeasure Strategies for EU\/EEA Target States, 2001-2021. (Cycle 39)<\/div>\n
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Bosco Lebrun<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Understanding Millenials\u2019 Views on a World Parliament from the European Experience. (Cycle 38)<\/p>\n

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Ilaria Lorusso<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Making sense of EU’s approach to Gender Mainstreaming in Migration Policy. (Cycle 39)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Samuele Lucidi<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>From Conflict to Cooperation? A Comparison Between Movement-Parties in Italy, France and Spain. (Cycle 40)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Costanza Marcellino<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>The role of political efficacy in shaping European identity: A comparison of the national and European level. <\/span>(Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Giulia Ongari<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional thesis title<\/span><\/strong>: EU-GCC: Opportunities and Challenges for Political Cooperation.(Cycle 41)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anna Pereti<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Party Politics, Restrictive Policies and Local Responsibilities: Unveiling the Dynamics of Integration Governance in Western European Cities. (Cycle 40)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michele Pertosa<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Shifting Global Power Dynamics: The Role of US Foreign Policy in European Defence Cooperation. (Cycle 40)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Enrico Petrocelli\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Reconciling strategic competition and cooperative security: the normative power of regional security architectures in a multipolar international system.\u00a0(Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Giulia Petroni<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Research Title:<\/strong> Securitization of Climate Migration vs. Human Rights Protection: The Need for a New Legal and Policy Framework. (Cycle 41)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Carolina Polito<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>The Race for AI Dominance: Effects on African Cybersecurity.\u00a0(Cycle 37)<\/p>\n

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Lorenzo Santini<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title<\/strong>: Gendering European Parliament\u2019s Diplomacy: Rules, Discourses and Practices in Global Context. (Cycle 38)<\/p>\n

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Giuseppenrico Tempesta<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Asymmetric Affective Polarization: How the Rise of the Radical Right Shapes Affective Polarization. (Cycle 41)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nicol\u00e1s Sebasti\u00e1n Soto Troncoso<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Assessing the Determinants of Public Transparency and its Impact on Corruption at the Sub-national Level. (Cycle 40)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ivan Zaccagnini<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title:<\/strong>Industrial Policy in the Age of Complexity: Emerging Technologies and the International Competition in Commercial and Defence Markets. (Cycle 38)<\/p>\n

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Katharina Weber<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Thesis Title: <\/strong>Contesting National Sovereignty? Transnational civil society activism and EU external action against deforestation. (Cycle 39)<\/p>\n

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