Staff
AISSR / Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Staff
PhD students
Post-Doctoral Researchers
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Jasper Blom
Jasper BlomJasper Blom is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. Previously, he has worked as director of the green think tank Bureau de Helling and as a policy advisor at the European Central Bank and the Dutch Ministry of Finance. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2011 with a thesis examining the interaction of changes in market structures and shifts in patterns of governance, and has been affiliated research fellow of PETGOV since. His research focuses on global financial governance, G20 policymaking, and the political economy of the Anthropocene.
Keywords: global financial governance, G20, anthropocene
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Paul van Hooft
Paul van HooftPaul van Hooft is an affiliated research fellow of PETGOV. His research and teaching focus on grand strategy, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe. In 2015 he defended his thesis on how the strategic preferences of policymakers towards force and diplomacy, and their perception of threats, are shaped by war. Other research interests include the changing relations between and within the major states – the relative decline of the US; the rise of China; the resurgence of Russia; the divisions within Europe; and the future of trans-Atlantic relations - and the impact of these developments - whether in the Ukrainian conflict, the South China Sea, or the Middle East. Paul van Hooft is also investigating how national security institutions shape the decision-making outcomes of states.
Key words: foreign policy ; defence policy; grand strategy ; multipolarity; international security ; transatlantic relations; decision-making -
Francesco Nicoli
Francesco NicoliFrancesco Nicoli is a PETGOV affiliated research fellow. His research focuses on the interactions between public opinion and governance arrangements in times of crisis.
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Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala
Alejandra Ortiz-AyalaAlejandra Ortiz-Ayala is a PhD Candidate at the National Centre of Peace and Conflict at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her current academic research interest incorporates three research areas, with the overall goal of preventing violence. She has studied the security sector's role in peace processes, including transitional justice, state-building and post-war violence, in Latin America. She has also analysed the influence of ideology on armed groups’ behaviour and their relationship with civilians, as well as reconciliation between victims and perpetrators and social and political reintegration of ex-combatants from non-state armed groups. She also has experience analysing public opinion surveys, mixed-methods – including lab-in-the-field experiments, survey experiments, interviews, and conducting multilevel analyses.
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Stefano Sacchi
Stefano SacchiStefano Sacchi is professor of Political Science at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. His research focuses on the political economy of welfare and labor policy, and on the socioeconomic and political impact of technological change. He was the president of the Italian National Institute for Public Policy Analysis, INAPP, and a special adviser to the Italian Labor Minister and then to the Prime Minister’s office.
Key words: Welfare state, labour market policy, comparative social policy, technological change
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Frank Takes
Frank TakesFrank Takes is a research fellow in the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in computer science at Leiden University, where he is currently also appointed as an assistant professor. His interest is among other things in computational social science, and his work with PETGOV colleagues focuses on questions related to the analysis of corporate and economic networks, in particular networks of interlocking directorates, as well as network science related problems in general.
Keywords: corporate governance, interlocking directorates, social networks, network science
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Seiki Tanaka
Seiki TanakaSeiki Tanaka is an affiliated research fellow at PETGOV and lecturer in international studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests include the political economy of poverty and inequality, discrimination, redistribution, and conflicts.
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Alexandra Vasileva-Dienes
Alexandra Vasileva-DienesAlexandra Vasileva-Dienes is an affiliated research fellow at PETGOV. She finished her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam in 2017 on Russia’s political economy and informal state-business relations (supervised by Uwe Becker and later Brian Burgoon). Alexandra is a senior researcher at Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, based in Vienna. She focuses on economic aspects of foreign and security policy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, extensively travelling the region and conducting interviews, writing policy briefs and consulting officials from EU institutions, the OSCE, MFAs and parliaments across the region. With her colleagues she developed and co-authored a multi-country foreign policy survey, presented at the Munich Security Conference. Her current research is on possibilities for cooperation between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union, and China’s growing presence in Eurasia.
