Attività Ricerca - Pubblicazioni

Ricerca - Pubblicazioni

Nell’ambito delle attività e delle aree di interesse del Centro, questa sezione propone una selezione tematica delle pubblicazioni del personale che ne fa parte.

Conflict research

• Costalli, S., Guariso, D., Justino, P., and Ruggeri, A. (2025). The Violent Legacy of Fascism: Evidence From Italy. Comparative Political Studies, 58(14): 3250-3284.
• Moro, F. N., and Paparo, A. (2025). Parasites, Colluders, and Adversaries: Explaining Mafia Strategies Toward Public Institutions in Italy. Political Studies, 00323217251384494.
• Di Salvatore, J., Polo, S.M.T., and Ruggeri, A. (2022). Do UN Peace Operations Lead to More Terrorism? Repertoires of Rebel Violence and Third-Party Interventions. European Journal of International Relations, 28(2): 361-385.
• Rinaldi, S., Gragnani, A., Moro, F. N., and Della Rossa, F. (2022). A Theoretical Analysis of Complex Armed Conflicts. PLoS One, 17(3): e0264418.
• Costalli, S., Moro, F.N., and Ruggeri, A. (2020). The Logic of Vulnerability and Civilian Victimization: Shifting Front Lines in Italy (1943–1945). World Politics, 72(4): 679-718.
• Costalli, S., and Ruggeri, A. (2019). The Long-Term Electoral Legacies of Civil War in Young Democracies: Italy, 1946-1968. Comparative Political Studies, 52(6): 927-961.
• Costalli, S., Moretti, L., Pischedda, C. (2017). The Economic Costs of Civil War: Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence and the Effects of Ethnic Fractionalization. Journal of Peace Research, 54(1): 80-98.

Peace operations and conflict resolution

• Costantini, I., Dian, M., Knapp, A., and Moro, F. N. (2026). (Il) Liberal Peace? P5 Approaches to Conflict Management and Resolution. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 13691481251407497.
• Bove, V., Di Salvatore, J., & Elia, L. (2025). What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 69(5), 898-924.
• Campbell, S. P., and Di Salvatore, J. (2024). Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma. American Journal of Political Science, 68: 907-926.
• Costalli, S., Di Salvatore, J., and Ruggeri, A. (2024). Do UN Peace Operations Help Forcibly Displaced People? Journal of Peace Research, 61(6): 1051-1068. 
• Blair, R. A., Di Salvatore, J., and Smidt, H. M. (2023). UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries. American Political Science Review, 117(4): 1308-1326.
• Bove, V., Di Salvatore, J., and Elia, L. (2022). UN Peacekeeping and Households’ Well-Being in Civil Wars. American Journal of Political Science, 66: 402-417.
• Bove, V., Ruffa, C., and Ruggeri, A. (2020). Composing Peace. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Foreign and defense policies

• Coticchia, F., and Davidson, J., (forthcoming). NATO’s Engagement with the Southern Flank: The Atlantic Alliance Looks South. London: Routledge.
• Coticchia, F., and Di Giulio, M. (2025). What Makes Paradigms Last? A Study of Defense Policy Change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022). Journal of European Public Policy, 32(7): 1831-1860.
• Coticchia, F., Joachim, J., Nijhuis, C., Verbeek, B., and Zaslove, A. (2025). The Foreign Policy of Populist Governed Middle Powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine War. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 38(6): 814-834.
• Mazziotti di Celso, M., Coticchia, F., and Reure, J.-M. (2025). Italy’s Foreign Military Deployments: Theories, Gaps, and Future Research. International Peacekeeping, 32(3): 647-676.
• Vignoli, V., and Coticchia, F. (2025). The Politics of Military Assistance: Italian Parties’ Positions on the War in Ukraine. South European Politics and Society, 30(1): 133-157.
• Coticchia, F., Dian, M., and Moro, F. N. (2023). Reluctant Remilitarisation: Transforming Defence and the Armed Forces in Germany, Italy and Japan After the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.