Nathalie Tocci | |
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 Tocci at theMunich Security Conference in 2019 | |
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Nathalie Tocci is an Italianpolitical scientist and international relations expert. She is currently a professor of practice at theJohns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe, and a senior fellow atBocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking.[1] She specialises in the role of theEuropean Union (EU) in international affairs and peacekeeping, and the relationship between European states. She currently serves as the director of theIstituto Affari Internazionali, and has also worked as an adviser to the government of Italy and to EU officials on foreign policy issues.
Tocci studied politics, philosophy, and economics atUniversity College, Oxford, graduating with a BA degree in 1998.[2] In 1999 she obtained an MSc degree from theLondon School of Economics, with a dissertation in Development Studies that focused on the political economy of Turkey.[2] In 2003, Tocci completed a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.[2] The title of her dissertation isEU Accession Dynamics and Conflict Resolution: The Case of Cyprus 1988-2002.[2]
From 1999 to 2003, Tocci worked as a research fellow on EU relations at theCentre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.[2] The following year she became aJean Monnet Fellow at theRobert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in theEuropean University Institute, where she continued to work until 2007. In 2006 she became a Senior Fellow at theIstituto Affari Internazionali, and in 2007 she returned for 2 years to the Centre for European Policy Studies.[2] In 2010 Tocci became a department head at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, in 2011 she became deputy director there, and in 2017 she became the director.[2] She also served as the associate editor of the journalThe International Spectator.[3]
In 2014, Tocci worked as an adviser toFederica Mogherini at theItalian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] Tocci continued to advise Mogherini on foreign policy issues when Mogherini served as EU's foreign policy chief[4] in her capacity as theHigh Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy andVice-President of the European Commission, during the period 2015–2019.[5] She then became an advisor toJosep Borrell when he succeeded Federica Mogherini in those roles.[2]
Tocci has published several books on international relations with a particular focus on European affairs. In 2007, she publishedThe EU and Conflict Resolution: Promoting Peace in the Backyard, in which she used the case of five ethno-religious conflicts on or around the borders of Europe to study the effectiveness of the EU's foreign policy in the area of making or maintaining peace.[6] In 2011, Tocci published a book on America's role in mediating the relationship between Turkey and the EU, calledTurkey's European Future: Behind the Scenes of America's Influence on EU-Turkey Relations.[7] She also wroteFraming the EU's Global Strategy in 2017.[8]
In 2008, Tocci received theAnna Lindh Award on European Foreign Policy.[2] In 2015, she became an honorary professor at theUniversity of Tübingen.[9]
Tocci has also been a monthly columnist on global issues forPolitico.[10]
