Fabrizio Tassinari

Fabrizio Tassinari (26 September 1977) is an Italian political scientist. He is the executive director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, a flagship initiative of the European Commission, since itsfounding in 2017.

Prior to that, Tassinari served as head of foreign policy studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies, the Danish government's independent research institution on foreign affairs, which he had joined as a senior researcher in 2009.A recipient of a German government’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation career award, he is an adjunct professor of comparative politics at Humboldt University in Berlin.

After his doctorate, Tassinari was anassistant professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen and a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Among his advisory positions, he served as a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2007, he was a fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and an adjunct fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Tassinari graduated summa cum laude in political science from the University of Rome in 2000 and earned his PhD in political science from the University of Copenhagen in 2004.

Tassinari has researched and published extensively on issues of international security and foreign policy analysis, with an empirical focus on the wider Europe and its surrounding regions. His book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors (Praeger), analyses the sources and origins of Europe's threat perception, and also appeared in an updated Turkish-language edition for the mass market. Tassinari's academic contributions have appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and editedvolumes.

A regular columniston international affairs, Tassinari’s commentaries regularly appear in mainstream international media. He has advised several Western governments and international organisations; his research on Black Sea cooperation provided the blueprint and the official name of the Black Sea Synergy, a European Union policy.

• "The Disintegration of European Security: Evidence from the Refugee Crisis" (PDF). PRISM. 6 (2). 2016.

• "Scandinavia's Real Lessons". Foreign Affairs. October 2015.

• with Sarah Miller (May 2014). "Nordic Cuddly Capitalism: Cover Story". Christian Science Monitor.

• with Rasmus Boserup (2012). "The Return of Arab Politics and Europe's Chance to engage anew". Mediterranean Politics. 17: 97–103. doi:10.1080/13629395.2012.655047.

• "What Really Divides Northern and Southern Europe?". New Perspectives Quarterly. 31 (3): 18–19. 2012. doi:10.1111/npqu.11469.

• "In Europa übernehmen Technokraten die Macht". Die Welt. November 2011.

• with Rasmus Boserup (October 2011). "Révolution d'un genre nouveau en Tunisie". Le Figaro.

• Why Europe Fears its Neighbors. Westport and London: Praeger. 2009. ISBN 9780313357725.

• "A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative". Centre for European Policy Studies. 2006.

• with Michael Emerson and Marius Vahl (2006). "A New Agreement between the EU and Russia: Why, What and When". CEPS Policy Briefs.

• Mare Europaeum: Baltic Sea Region Security and Cooperation from post-Wall to post-Enlargement Europe (PDF). Copenhagen: Political Studies Press. 2004. p. 343.