CV Laura Petrone.pdf

LAURA PETRONE
Date of birth: 02/03/1981
Nationality: Italian
Email: lapetrone@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
2010 PhD in Political Science, University of Bologna
Title of dissertation: “Pluralism Between Democracy and Authoritarianism.
The Russian Case”. Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Morlino.
2006 M. A International Relations and Politics, University of Naples l’Orientale.
Title of thesis: “Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Form of association and
engagement”.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Russian Politics, EU-Russia relations, Russian and EU energy strategy, Regime
Transformations in the Post-Soviet Space.
English, Russian, French
LANGUAGES
RESEARCH AND STUDY ABROAD
2009/2010 Visiting fellow at the Higher School of Economics of Moscow, Department of
Public Policy and at the Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia.
2008 Visiting fellow at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
(MGIMO), Russia.
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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
(2010) International Conference Russia-Italy: International IT and Energy Security, Naples, 30
September- 2 October 2010, “Italia e Russia di fronte alle sfide alla sicurezza energetica: strategie
nazionali e opportunità di cooperazione”.
(2010) Xth Baltic Practice Seminar, Higher School of Economics of Moscow, Oslo 1-8 August 2010.
“Democratic Practice in Higher Education Institutions: Comparing some Russian and Italian
Universities”.
(2009) XIIIrd Conference of the Italian Associations of Political Science, Rome, 17-19 September
2009, “Russia and EU in the Post-Soviet Space”.
(2009) Seminar organized by the Association ‘Massimo Gorki’ of Naples and the ‘Eurasia’ review of
geopolitics “La Nato, l’Europa e l’Eurasia”, Naples, 8 May 2009, “La politica russa in Asia centrale e
nella regione del Mar Caspio”.
(2008) XIInd Conference of Italian Association of Political Science, Pavia, 4-6 September 2008,
“L’approccio della Russia ai Balcani Occidentali: un’alternativa ideologica all’UE?”.
(2008) Annual Meeting of Public Chamber of Russian Federation on “Empirical Studies of Civil
Society in Russia”, Moscow, 24 September 2008, “Youth Activism in Post-Soviet Russia”.
PUBLICATIONS
(2011) L. Petrone, “Institutionalizing Pluralism in Russia: A New Authoritarianism?”, Journal of
Communist Studies and Transition Politics, (on schedule for publication in June 2011)
(2011) L. Petrone, “Il pluralismo tra democrazia ed autoritarismo. Il caso russo”, Odoya ed.,
Bologna, (monography in press).
(2011) L. Petrone, “Pro-Kremlin Youth Movements in Russia and the Idea of Conservative
Modernisation”, ISPI Policy Analysis, April 2011,
http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Analysis_46_2011.pdf.
(2010) Xth Baltic Practice Seminar, Higher School of Economics of Moscow, Oslo 1-8 August 2010,
“Democratic Practice in Higher Education Institutions: Comparing some Russian and Italian
Universities”.
(2010) L. Petrone, “EU-Russia Relations in the Post-soviet space: Performance and Foreign Policy
Goals”, Europe-Asia Studies, (under review).
(2010) L. Petrone, “La Russia e la grande sfida della modernizzazione”, ISPI Policy Analysis, April
2010, http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Analysis_6_2010.pdf.
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(2010) L. Petrone, “La Russia, il controllo del pluralismo e la libertà di Internet”, Ispi Commentary,
March 2010, http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Commentary_Petrone_31%20marzo
%202010.pdf.
(2005) L. Petrone, “I giovani di Putin”, EuropaMondo Osservatorio internazionele, review of
“L’Orientale” University of Naples, April 2005, pp. 8-11.
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