Permanent Faculty

Matteo received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2005. After working at the Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, and University College Dublin, Matteo joined CEU in 2007. His interests include Central Asian, Caucasian and post-Soviet politics more broadly; the comparative study of authoritarianism; international security; the politics of development; ethno -nationalism, migration, trans-nationalism and diasporas; and state failure and collapse. His recent publications include articles in the International Political Science Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Central Asian Survey and Osteuropa. His monograph (forthcoming with Routledge) is entitled ‘Ethnopolitics in Central Asia: Identity, Patronage and the Soviet Legacy’. Matteo has been recipient of grants and awards from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the American Political Science Association, the Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Support Program, the International Studies Association, and the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies.
Matteo is Academic Director of the project ‘Rethinking the International Security Agenda’, an international collaborative consortium funded by the Open Society Institute. Matteo also sits on the executive committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association (ISA), where he has been Program Co-Chair for the ISA Conventions since 2009. He has consulted the UK Ministry of Defense, the Italian Foreign Ministry, the High Commissioner on Ethnic Minorities (HCNM/OSCE), and the UK Ethnic Minority Law Centre. He regularly contributes to Oxford Analytica and the Johns Hopkins University’s Central Asia and the Caucasus Analyst. Matteo has been the Director of the CEU Asia Research Initiative (ARI) since 2009.
At CEU Matteo teaches on Central Asian and Caucasian Politics; Comparative Authoritarianism; and Conflict, Security, and Development.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

2010/11
States, Networks, and Power in post-Soviet Politics
Energy and Security in Central Asia (IRES)
Conflict, Security, and Development (IRES)

2008/09
Political Dynamics: Comparative Authoritarianism
Energy and Security in the Caucasus and Central Asia (IRES)

2008/09
Politics of Central Asia
Political Dynamics: Comparative Authoritarianism
Energy and Security in the Caspian Region (IRES)

2007/08
Politics of Central Asia
Comparative Authoritarianism
Central Asian Foreign Policy (IRES)