10/05/2014 Pier Domenico Tortola Centro Studi sul Federalismo Via Real Collegio, 30 10024 Moncalieri (TO) Italy Phone: +39 011 6705024 Email: tortola@csfederalismo.it Web: pierotortola.weebly.com Current position Research fellow at the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF), Moncalieri (TO), Italy. Education Academic qualifications • 2012: D.Phil. in Politics, University of Oxford (viva passed without corrections). • 2006: ABD (‘All but dissertation’) in Political Science, Boston University. • 2004: MA in International Relations, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. • 2002: MA in European Studies, ASERI Milan. • 2001: Laurea (BA) summa cum laude in International Studies, University of Bologna. Additional education • 2004: IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics, Cortona, Italy. • 2003: ETH Summer Academy on Strategic Studies, Feldafing, Germany. • 2001: ISPI Summer School “NATO Enlargement and the New European Geopolitics”, Milan, Italy. Awards Scholarships • A.Y. 2010/11: Warden’s pre-doctoral bursary, St Antony’s College, Oxford. • A.Y. 2007/08 – 2010/11 Departmental scholarship, DPIR, University of Oxford. • A.Y. 2007/08 – 2009/10: ESRC scholarship, University of Oxford. • A.Y. 2004/05 – 2006/07: Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University. • A.Y. 2003/04: Fulbright fellowship at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. • A.Y. 2003/04: University of Bologna fellowship at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. • A.Y. 2003/04: SAIS-JHU fellowship. • A.Y. 2002/03: Altiero Spinelli Memorial Fellowship at at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. • A.Y. 1996/97 – 2000/01: ARSTUD fellowship, University of Bologna. • A.Y. 1998/99: ERASMUS fellowship, University of Nijmegen. Research and travel grants • September 2011: Conference travel grant – American Political Science Association. • July 2011: Mellon award – DPIR, University of Oxford. 1 Pier Domenico Tortola • • • • March and July 2010: Carr & Stahl travel grant – St Antony’s College, Oxford. June 2010 Research grant – Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. May 2010: Mellon pre-dissertation award – Council for European Studies (CES). March 2010: Field research grant – DPIR, University of Oxford. Previous employment Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin • 2012-13: Post-doctoral fellow. Research position with a 30-hour work requirement fulfilled by teaching a MA level course in European integration and running the Collegio’s weekly research seminar in Politics. University of Oxford • 2008-12: Lecturer in Politics at the Queen’s College. Subjects taught: introduction to politics; international relations; international relations during the Cold War. Involved in undergraduate admissions and Politics organizing tutor for the A.Y. 2011/12. • 2007-08: Research assistant for FP6-financed projects “EUREQUAL” and “Reconsidering party divisions in Western Europe” based at the Department of Politics. Project coordinator: Prof. Stephen Whitefield. Boston University • 2005-08 (Summer term): Instructor for “Cases in US Foreign Policy”. • 2006 (Summer term): Instructor for “European Politics” (PO361). • 2006 and 2007 (Spring term): Teaching fellow for “Introduction to International Relations” (PO271). • 2005 and 2006 (Fall term): Teaching fellow for “Introduction to Comparative Politics” (PO251). University of Bologna • 2005-07: Member of the Bologna unit in the inter-university research project “The end of the Cold War or the irresistible advance of globalization?” funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Higher Education. Unit coordinator: Prof. Marco Cesa. • 2000-01: Administrative assistant at the International relations office of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Forlì campus. Publications Journal articles • “The limits of normalization: Taking stock of the EU-US comparative literature”. Journal of Common Market Studies (2014) doi: 10.1111/jcms.12143. • “Federalism, the state and the city: Explaining ‘city welfare’ in the United States and the European Union”. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 43, 4 (2013): 648-75. • “Deconstructing a conflict: Ideas, perceptions and the end of the Cold War” (in Italian), Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 17, 3, (2010): 555-74. • “Christianity and international politics in the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr and Herbert Butterfield” (in Italian), Teoria Politica 21, 3 (2005): 115-27. • “NATO and US hegemony after the Cold War” (in Italian), Teoria Politica 20, 1, (2004): 10932. • “Intra-allied bargaining in the neorealist perspective: the Euromissiles case” (in Italian), Quaderni di Scienza Politica 9, 3, (2002): 503-54. 2 Pier Domenico Tortola Grey literature and shorter articles • “Urban policy in the European Union: A comparative perspective”, Perspectives on Europe. Forthcoming. • “Why a partisan Commission president can be good for the EU: A response to Grabbe and Lehne”, CSF Policy Paper no. 2, December 2013. • “N=2: The comparative study of the EU and the US as a research programme”, Carlo Alberto Notebooks 290/2012. • (With A. Locatelli) “Taking Waltz beyond Waltz: Socialization as an intervening variable in structural realism”, Paper presented at the SISP annual conference, 2009 Reference work • G.T. Kurian et al. (eds.) The encyclopedia of political science (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010). Entries: Constructivism; Correlation; First-Past-the-Post; Prisoner’s Dilemma; Process Tracing; Realism/Neorealism; Reinhold Niebuhr. Book reviews • Adamski, Janet, et al. (eds.), Old Europe, new security: Evolution for a complex world (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), Global Crime, 9, 3 (2008): 287-89. • David Ost, The defeat of solidarity: Anger and politics in postcommunist Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005), Teoria Politica, 23, 2 (2007). • Catherine Fieschi, Fascism, populism and the French Fifth Republic: In the shadow of democracy (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004), Teoria Politica, 23, 2 (2007). • “Reading suggestions: The twenty years’ crisis by Edward H. Carr”, Crossroads: The ASA Journal, 5, 1 (2005): 78-81. • “The two faces of international political economy”. Review of Robert Gilpin, Global political economy (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001) and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard et al. (eds), Power and the purse: Economic statecraft, interdependence, and national security (London: Cass, 2000) (in Italian), Teoria Politica 19, 2-3, (2003): 404-09. Work in progress Submitted • “The microfoundations of policy inertia: a city-level analysis of the Community Development Block Grant”. Revise and resubmit. State and Local Government Review. • “The legacy of URBAN in a mid-size Italian city”. Under review. Advanced stage • “The legacy of Europe: Post-URBAN area-based regeneration in two Italian cities”. • “Multi-level governance: A conceptual analysis”. • “The state of European integration, the state and European integration”. Early/intermediate stage • (Book project) The new politics of the city welfare state: The EU and the US compared. • “The social construction of spillovers: The case of territorial cohesion”. • “Beyond institutional ‘change vs. continuity’: The case of the CDBG”. • • “Territorial cohesion in the EU: a comparison of the LEADER and URBAN experiences”. (with Desmond King) Process vs problems: The new politics of urban America. Conference participation • American Political Science Association: 2011 • Council for European Studies: 2012, 2014 3 Pier Domenico Tortola • • • • European Consortium for Political Research: 2013, 2014 Italian Political Science Association: 2009, 2010 Midwest Political Science Association: 2006 Northeastern Political Science Association: 2005 Languages • Italian: Mother tongue • English: Excellent • Spanish: Good • French: Fair • Serbo-Croatian: Elementary Professional memberships • American Political Science Association • Council for European Studies Miscellaneous • Co-editor of the political and economic information website Quattrogatti.info • Op-ed contributor for openDemocracy.net, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Huffington Post Italia and AffarInternazionali.it. 4