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Federico Castiglioni

Position
Research Fellow for EU politics and governance
Biography

Federico Castiglioni is Research Fellow in the “Europe” programme at IAI. Prior to this job, he worked at the EU Parliament as MEP policy advisor and then as a political analyst for the consultancy company Zanasi & Partners. In both these tenures, he dealt with the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the development of the European Defence Fund (EDF). In 2020, he earned a PhD in European Studies from the Roma Tre University, presenting a final dissertation on the response of the European Union to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He has been adjunct professor of “European Governance” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and currently teaches at the Link Campus University in Rome.

Publications

Data pubblicazione

Citizenship Education and Learning Mechanisms in the Post-Truth Era: A European Perspective

Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age
Autori
Alessia Chiriatti
Federico Castiglioni
Details
(with Maximilian Conrad) in Maximilian Conrad and Saul Newman (eds), Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2026, p. 167-192 (Democracy in Times of Upheaval ; 12)
In: Libri
Data pubblicazione

Civic and Citizenship Education under scrutiny

Autori
Federico Castiglioni
Alessia Chiriatti
Details
in De Europa, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2025), p. 135-151
In: Altri paper e articoli

In the media

Who What Why: The European Right, Facing Setbacks of Its Own, Keeps Its Distance From Trump

Euronews: Can Giorgia Meloni help the EU avoid a trade war with the US?

Decode 39: Strengthening European defence. The Italy-Germany action plan

Research

This project establishes an observatory within the Federazione nazionale dei Cavalieri del Lavoro to analyse the evolution of EU policies, focusing on four key areas essential to the future…
InCLUDE is a three-year initiative by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), supported by the Open Society Foundations - Western Balkans (OSF WB), aimed at revitalising the EU enlargement…
“How can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe’s resilience?" This project aims to investigate how to reform the EU’s enlargement strategy in a new…