Gabriele Abbondanza
Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza is Marie Curie Fellow (EU position) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Associate Researcher at the University of Sydney (USYD), and Associate Fellow at the Italian Institute of International Affairs (IAI), a global top-20 international relations think tank.
Gabriele specialises in international relations, security studies, and irregular migration studies, with an emphasis on:
- irregular migration governance
- the Indo-Pacific
- middle power and great power theory
- Australian foreign & security policy
- Italian foreign & security policy
He has published widely on these issues, including numerous articles in top-tier (Q1 and Q2) journals such as International Affairs, International Political Science Review, European Political Science, Contemporary Politics, Australian Journal of International Affairs, The International Spectator, and others. His latest monograph is "The foreign policy of irregular migration governance", published by Routledge in 2024, and his co-edited books are "Awkward Powers" (2021) and "Italy and Australia" (2023), published by Palgrave Macmillan.
He has taught many university courses on international relations, security studies, migration politics, development politics, and other related subjects. He often engages with the media and with public institutions – including national parliaments, ministries, and diplomatic networks – to support the broader impact of his policy-relevant research.
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