Daniela Irrera

Daniela Irrera is professor of Political Science and International Relations at the School of Advanced Defence Studies, CASD, Rome, Italy.

She is Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), associate editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, co-editor of the Springer book series on Non-State Actors in International Relations. She is Visiting professor of Political Violence and Terrorism and Civil Society and Sustainability at the OSCE Academy, Bishkek.

She has served as member of the ISA Governing Council (2019-2021), Secretary General of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) (2018-2021), Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (2019-2021) and President of the European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) (2017-2022).

She has been Visiting Scholar at several Universities and Research Centres in Europe, US and Asia. She has been awarded with a DAAD Fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and with a research grant at the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Alberta, Canada. She has been Associate Faculty at IBEI, Barcelona, teaching within the MUNDUSMAPP Erasmus Mundus program and Marie Curie Fellow at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianopolis, Brazil.

She has extensively published in the areas of International Relations and EU politics, dealing with global terrorism, transnational organised crime, civil society and humanitarian affairs.