Serena Giusti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3561607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Giusti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Giusti |
| SIGNATURE | GIUSTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1769-8882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Strategic foresight in the Italian policy system: External actors and linkage dynamics
The ‘warization’ of cultural heritage: The case of Ukraine
The article aims to investigate how cultural heritage is implicated in both traditional and hybrid forms of warfare, considering its significance and instrumentality. By significance, this article refers to the meanings ascribed to cultural heritage through decisions and actions, particularly the intended messages and narratives such actions seek to convey. Instrumentality, on the other hand, denotes the ways in which cultural heritage is mobiliz…
The Geopolitics of Culture: Museum Proliferation in Qatar and Abu Dhabi
In recent years, Qatar and Abu Dhabi have experienced a proliferation of museums symbolically embedded in a trilateral dialogue between the ruling families, the population, and international audiences and partners. This proliferation brings together the local and the global, the physical and the virtual, the tangible facets of politics, economics and security, and the immaterial and ideational ambitions of identity-building and country branding. …
Italian diplomacy and the Ukrainian crisis: The challenges (and cost) of continuity
This article seeks to analyse the Italian diplomatic response to the Ukrainian crisis. To this end, the article relies on role theory to understand how Italy’s diplomatic posture during the war was influenced by the expectations deriving from its EU and NATO membership, but also by the different role conceptions emerging in the public debate. Though Italy under its Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, not only responded to but effectively led European s…
Museums after the pandemic, from resilience to innovation: The case of the Uffizi
The article explores how museums have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, referring to the concept of resilience and critical juncture. Whereas the first relates to a system’s ability to recover or resume its original form after stress, perturbation, or shock, the latter refers to extraordinary conditions produced by unexpected and dramatic events that are able to enact profound and deep changes. The case of the Uffizi museum, which has suffered ma…
The EU’s Tripartite Approach Towards Belarus and the Limits of Resilience
This article examines how the European Union (EU) reacted to the protests that erupted in Belarus against the re-election of Alyaksandr Lukashenka in 2020 and the repressive measures he took against his political adversaries, using the conceptual lens of resilience and pragmatism, two concepts endorsed in the 2016 European Union Global Strategy (EUGS) that seem most appropriate for our analysis. However, while resilience is less demanding than th…
Making the Best Out of a Crisis: Russia’s Health Diplomacy during Covid-19
The article considers how Russia has reacted to the pandemic, especially in terms of foreign policy. Although internally the management of the pandemic has led to a further limitation of citizens’ freedoms, externally it has been exploited to improve the country’s image and strengthen its leverage through tactical activism and political generosity. Russia’s strategy has been articulated in two phases: first, immediate aid to countries in need in …
Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake ne…
Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe
This article is part of the special section “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe” guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. This is an introduction to the Special Section on Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from this introduction, the Section includes four articles, which explore the nature and conditions of think tanks operating in Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. Think tanks are usually understood…
The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role
The article suggests an exegesis of the conceptual tenets introduced by the EUGS. By focusing on the two disruptive concepts that have come forward in the document – principled pragmatism and resilience – it aims at unveiling the new role the EUGS allocates to the EU, especially in its neighbourhood. This recalls the Socratic maieutic method, blending the cognitive, aspirational and performative aspects suggested by principled pragmatism and resi…
The EU in a Trans-European Space: External Relations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East
The securitisation of cultural heritage
It is not a novelty for art to come under attack: cultural heritage has always been endangered by wars, conflicts and political violence. Since the last century, the international community has started reacting, moved by the concern that these threatened monuments be protected. Lately, cultural heritage can be seen to undergo a veritable crescendo from politicisation to criminalisation and securitisation. Accordingly, this article seeks to analys…
Women in the Mediterranean: Still Discriminated Against
While in the EU’s Mediterranean countries inequality is mostly linked to the social \nsphere, and in particular refers to labour market dynamics, in the Middle East and Northern \nAfrica (MENA) area the situation is more complicated as the social and private spheres \noverlap and cultural and religious factors have a great impact on women’s autonomy and \nopportunities beyond the family perimeter. The different challenges women are facing on \nth…
Gender Mainstreaming towards the Mediterranean: The Case of the ENP
This article explores how the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has supported policies promoting the improvement of women’s conditions in Mediterranean countries. It points out the evolution of the European Union’s gender mainstreaming in the various manifestations of its external policies directed to the region. Gender mainstreaming has been pursued through the usual practice, largely used in recent enlargements: norm diffusion. This method do…
Practising EU foreign policy, Russia and the Eastern neighbours
The securitisation of cultural heritage
It is not a novelty for art to come under attack: cultural heritage has always been endangered by wars, conflicts and political violence. Since the last century, the international community has started reacting, moved by the concern that these threatened monuments be protected. Lately, cultural heritage can be seen to undergo a veritable crescendo from politicisation to criminalisation and securitisation. Accordingly, this article seeks to analys…
The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role
The article suggests an exegesis of the conceptual tenets introduced by the EUGS. By focusing on the two disruptive concepts that have come forward in the document – principled pragmatism and resilience – it aims at unveiling the new role the EUGS allocates to the EU, especially in its neighbourhood. This recalls the Socratic maieutic method, blending the cognitive, aspirational and performative aspects suggested by principled pragmatism and resi…
Italian diplomacy and the Ukrainian crisis: The challenges (and cost) of continuity
This article seeks to analyse the Italian diplomatic response to the Ukrainian crisis. To this end, the article relies on role theory to understand how Italy’s diplomatic posture during the war was influenced by the expectations deriving from its EU and NATO membership, but also by the different role conceptions emerging in the public debate. Though Italy under its Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, not only responded to but effectively led European s…
Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe
This article is part of the special section “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe” guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. This is an introduction to the Special Section on Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from this introduction, the Section includes four articles, which explore the nature and conditions of think tanks operating in Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. Think tanks are usually understood…
Women in the Mediterranean: Still Discriminated Against
While in the EU’s Mediterranean countries inequality is mostly linked to the social \nsphere, and in particular refers to labour market dynamics, in the Middle East and Northern \nAfrica (MENA) area the situation is more complicated as the social and private spheres \noverlap and cultural and religious factors have a great impact on women’s autonomy and \nopportunities beyond the family perimeter. The different challenges women are facing on \nth…
Gender Mainstreaming towards the Mediterranean: The Case of the ENP
This article explores how the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has supported policies promoting the improvement of women’s conditions in Mediterranean countries. It points out the evolution of the European Union’s gender mainstreaming in the various manifestations of its external policies directed to the region. Gender mainstreaming has been pursued through the usual practice, largely used in recent enlargements: norm diffusion. This method do…
Practising EU foreign policy, Russia and the Eastern neighbours
The securitisation of cultural heritage
It is not a novelty for art to come under attack: cultural heritage has always been endangered by wars, conflicts and political violence. Since the last century, the international community has started reacting, moved by the concern that these threatened monuments be protected. Lately, cultural heritage can be seen to undergo a veritable crescendo from politicisation to criminalisation and securitisation. Accordingly, this article seeks to analys…
The EU in a Trans-European Space: External Relations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East
Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake ne…
Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe
This article is part of the special section “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe” guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. This is an introduction to the Special Section on Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from this introduction, the Section includes four articles, which explore the nature and conditions of think tanks operating in Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. Think tanks are usually understood…
The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role
The article suggests an exegesis of the conceptual tenets introduced by the EUGS. By focusing on the two disruptive concepts that have come forward in the document – principled pragmatism and resilience – it aims at unveiling the new role the EUGS allocates to the EU, especially in its neighbourhood. This recalls the Socratic maieutic method, blending the cognitive, aspirational and performative aspects suggested by principled pragmatism and resi…
Making the Best Out of a Crisis: Russia’s Health Diplomacy during Covid-19
The article considers how Russia has reacted to the pandemic, especially in terms of foreign policy. Although internally the management of the pandemic has led to a further limitation of citizens’ freedoms, externally it has been exploited to improve the country’s image and strengthen its leverage through tactical activism and political generosity. Russia’s strategy has been articulated in two phases: first, immediate aid to countries in need in …
The Geopolitics of Culture: Museum Proliferation in Qatar and Abu Dhabi
In recent years, Qatar and Abu Dhabi have experienced a proliferation of museums symbolically embedded in a trilateral dialogue between the ruling families, the population, and international audiences and partners. This proliferation brings together the local and the global, the physical and the virtual, the tangible facets of politics, economics and security, and the immaterial and ideational ambitions of identity-building and country branding. …
Italian diplomacy and the Ukrainian crisis: The challenges (and cost) of continuity
This article seeks to analyse the Italian diplomatic response to the Ukrainian crisis. To this end, the article relies on role theory to understand how Italy’s diplomatic posture during the war was influenced by the expectations deriving from its EU and NATO membership, but also by the different role conceptions emerging in the public debate. Though Italy under its Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, not only responded to but effectively led European s…
Museums after the pandemic, from resilience to innovation: The case of the Uffizi
The article explores how museums have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, referring to the concept of resilience and critical juncture. Whereas the first relates to a system’s ability to recover or resume its original form after stress, perturbation, or shock, the latter refers to extraordinary conditions produced by unexpected and dramatic events that are able to enact profound and deep changes. The case of the Uffizi museum, which has suffered ma…
The EU’s Tripartite Approach Towards Belarus and the Limits of Resilience
This article examines how the European Union (EU) reacted to the protests that erupted in Belarus against the re-election of Alyaksandr Lukashenka in 2020 and the repressive measures he took against his political adversaries, using the conceptual lens of resilience and pragmatism, two concepts endorsed in the 2016 European Union Global Strategy (EUGS) that seem most appropriate for our analysis. However, while resilience is less demanding than th…
Strategic foresight in the Italian policy system: External actors and linkage dynamics
The ‘warization’ of cultural heritage: The case of Ukraine
The article aims to investigate how cultural heritage is implicated in both traditional and hybrid forms of warfare, considering its significance and instrumentality. By significance, this article refers to the meanings ascribed to cultural heritage through decisions and actions, particularly the intended messages and narratives such actions seek to convey. Instrumentality, on the other hand, denotes the ways in which cultural heritage is mobiliz…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)