Martino Lovato
Biographic Data
| ID | 694501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martino Lovato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martino |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovato |
| SIGNATURE | LOVATO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0355-7328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preserving the ‘pecking order’ in Europe’s diplomatic hierarchies
The Ukraine war has made it clear that the world should have listened to those Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) who, for years, had been sounding the alarm about Russia. So why did their warnings fall on deaf ears? Even though international organisations (IOs) should ensure equal representation, they end up nonetheless being structured by social hierarchies, …
Divided we stand? Examining the European Union’s ability to withstand external wedging
From the Core to the Periphery of EU Foreign Policy
The paper investigates the effects of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) on cooperation dynamics among the remaining member states. To do so, it draws on critical border studies and the scholarship on voluntary withdrawals from International Organizations (IOs). The study conceptualises coalition-building and cooperation dynamics as inclusionary/exclusionary bordering practices, which help draw social boundaries between an intangi…
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression
The European Union’s response to Russia’s war of aggression has run contrary to expectations of EU foreign policy inaction and incoherence as well as warnings of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policy. Drawing on the concept of coordinative Europeanization, we argue that the response to the war has allowed for a more horizontal, cooperative decision-making process involving both member states and EU institutions, as well as a …
Group emotions and their role in EU foreign policy
EU foreign policy is highly dependent on EU member states, but we still lack a coherent conceptual framework that does justice to the interdependences and co-constitutive relations between EU countries. Building on relational theory and social psychology, we develop a social relational model about group emotions in the Council that conceptualises under what conditions emotions play a role in EU foreign policy decision-making. We formulate scope c…
Keep on Talking! The Resilience of Multilateral Communications in EU Foreign Policy
How informality keeps multilateralism going
Informal groupings of states – either as stand-alone entities or as part of formal international organizations (IOs) – are playing an increasingly important role in sustaining multilateralism and global governance. But what is it about the informal nature of these groupings that makes them such a critical and increasingly popular fixture of international cooperation? To answer this question, the paper focuses on the role of informal groupings in …
Diplomats as Skilful Bricoleurs of the Digital Age
The article analyses how and to what effect diplomats navigate a landscape in which the physical and the digital have become inextricably intertwined, with emphasis on written communications in the European Union (EU) foreign policy system from the 1970s to the present. Putting International Relations literature into dialogue with Management Studies (particularly media richness theory and sense-making), it looks at how diplomats work their way th…
Sicily's Mediterranean Vocation during the 1950s
This article focuses on the Mediterranean initiatives organized by the Accademia del Mediterraneo, founded at the University of Palermo in 1951. Superposing the histories of Sicily and Italy with those of Europe's relationship with the Arab-Muslim world during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial age, the Accademia became one of the liveliest cultural institutions supporting the Italian Republic's early foreign policy. It promoted…
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
Impossible Revolutions? The Contemporary Afterlives of the Medieval Slave Rebellion of the Zendj
The present chapter studies two contemporary Algerian narratives retelling the medieval rebellion of the Zendj, Black Africans brought as slaves to the marshes of Lower Iraq, who revolted against the power of the Abbasid Caliphate. Considered as the greatest servile insurrection of the medieval Arab-Muslim world, Jamel Eddine Benchecikh’s novel Rose noire sans parfum (1998) and Tareq Teguia’s film Révolution Zenj (2013) revisit this evocative epi…
The Location of Literature
This article is devoted to a late-early Italian “migrant” novel, Abdelmalek Smari’s Fiamme in paradiso (2000), and to the two collaborative processes from which this work originated. Intersecting migration and post-colonial studies, Smari’s case is unique in the early production of recent Italian “migrant literature,” as a copy of the original manuscript has been preserved and reveals how the author negotiated his authorship in two collaborations…
Process and position power
Relational approaches bear a distinct added value for the study of the EU and international negotiations. In this research note we advocate for the combination of social network analysis with practice theory to better capture social relational forms of state power. We introduce the concepts of position and process power to develop an analytical framework that conceptualizes negotiations as dynamic interactions between the two. We contend that neg…
Getting your House in Order for EU Negotiations
Despite being one of the founding members of the European Community and the third largest economy in the EU, Italy does not stand out as a particularly influential negotiator when it comes to day‐to‐day EU decision‐making. Why is it that a country with Italy's political weight, economic resources and administrative capacity has such a patchy record in terms of negotiation success? Examining Italy's negotiation of two key EU policies (2008–16) and…
Divided we stand? Examining the European Union’s ability to withstand external wedging
Process and position power
Relational approaches bear a distinct added value for the study of the EU and international negotiations. In this research note we advocate for the combination of social network analysis with practice theory to better capture social relational forms of state power. We introduce the concepts of position and process power to develop an analytical framework that conceptualizes negotiations as dynamic interactions between the two. We contend that neg…
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression
The European Union’s response to Russia’s war of aggression has run contrary to expectations of EU foreign policy inaction and incoherence as well as warnings of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policy. Drawing on the concept of coordinative Europeanization, we argue that the response to the war has allowed for a more horizontal, cooperative decision-making process involving both member states and EU institutions, as well as a …
Getting your House in Order for EU Negotiations
Despite being one of the founding members of the European Community and the third largest economy in the EU, Italy does not stand out as a particularly influential negotiator when it comes to day‐to‐day EU decision‐making. Why is it that a country with Italy's political weight, economic resources and administrative capacity has such a patchy record in terms of negotiation success? Examining Italy's negotiation of two key EU policies (2008–16) and…
Group emotions and their role in EU foreign policy
EU foreign policy is highly dependent on EU member states, but we still lack a coherent conceptual framework that does justice to the interdependences and co-constitutive relations between EU countries. Building on relational theory and social psychology, we develop a social relational model about group emotions in the Council that conceptualises under what conditions emotions play a role in EU foreign policy decision-making. We formulate scope c…
How informality keeps multilateralism going
Informal groupings of states – either as stand-alone entities or as part of formal international organizations (IOs) – are playing an increasingly important role in sustaining multilateralism and global governance. But what is it about the informal nature of these groupings that makes them such a critical and increasingly popular fixture of international cooperation? To answer this question, the paper focuses on the role of informal groupings in …
Keep on Talking! The Resilience of Multilateral Communications in EU Foreign Policy
Diplomats as Skilful Bricoleurs of the Digital Age
The article analyses how and to what effect diplomats navigate a landscape in which the physical and the digital have become inextricably intertwined, with emphasis on written communications in the European Union (EU) foreign policy system from the 1970s to the present. Putting International Relations literature into dialogue with Management Studies (particularly media richness theory and sense-making), it looks at how diplomats work their way th…
Sicily's Mediterranean Vocation during the 1950s
This article focuses on the Mediterranean initiatives organized by the Accademia del Mediterraneo, founded at the University of Palermo in 1951. Superposing the histories of Sicily and Italy with those of Europe's relationship with the Arab-Muslim world during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial age, the Accademia became one of the liveliest cultural institutions supporting the Italian Republic's early foreign policy. It promoted…
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
Impossible Revolutions? The Contemporary Afterlives of the Medieval Slave Rebellion of the Zendj
The present chapter studies two contemporary Algerian narratives retelling the medieval rebellion of the Zendj, Black Africans brought as slaves to the marshes of Lower Iraq, who revolted against the power of the Abbasid Caliphate. Considered as the greatest servile insurrection of the medieval Arab-Muslim world, Jamel Eddine Benchecikh’s novel Rose noire sans parfum (1998) and Tareq Teguia’s film Révolution Zenj (2013) revisit this evocative epi…
The Location of Literature
This article is devoted to a late-early Italian “migrant” novel, Abdelmalek Smari’s Fiamme in paradiso (2000), and to the two collaborative processes from which this work originated. Intersecting migration and post-colonial studies, Smari’s case is unique in the early production of recent Italian “migrant literature,” as a copy of the original manuscript has been preserved and reveals how the author negotiated his authorship in two collaborations…
Process and position power
Relational approaches bear a distinct added value for the study of the EU and international negotiations. In this research note we advocate for the combination of social network analysis with practice theory to better capture social relational forms of state power. We introduce the concepts of position and process power to develop an analytical framework that conceptualizes negotiations as dynamic interactions between the two. We contend that neg…
Getting your House in Order for EU Negotiations
Despite being one of the founding members of the European Community and the third largest economy in the EU, Italy does not stand out as a particularly influential negotiator when it comes to day‐to‐day EU decision‐making. Why is it that a country with Italy's political weight, economic resources and administrative capacity has such a patchy record in terms of negotiation success? Examining Italy's negotiation of two key EU policies (2008–16) and…
Diplomats as Skilful Bricoleurs of the Digital Age
The article analyses how and to what effect diplomats navigate a landscape in which the physical and the digital have become inextricably intertwined, with emphasis on written communications in the European Union (EU) foreign policy system from the 1970s to the present. Putting International Relations literature into dialogue with Management Studies (particularly media richness theory and sense-making), it looks at how diplomats work their way th…
Sicily's Mediterranean Vocation during the 1950s
This article focuses on the Mediterranean initiatives organized by the Accademia del Mediterraneo, founded at the University of Palermo in 1951. Superposing the histories of Sicily and Italy with those of Europe's relationship with the Arab-Muslim world during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial age, the Accademia became one of the liveliest cultural institutions supporting the Italian Republic's early foreign policy. It promoted…
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression
The European Union’s response to Russia’s war of aggression has run contrary to expectations of EU foreign policy inaction and incoherence as well as warnings of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policy. Drawing on the concept of coordinative Europeanization, we argue that the response to the war has allowed for a more horizontal, cooperative decision-making process involving both member states and EU institutions, as well as a …
Group emotions and their role in EU foreign policy
EU foreign policy is highly dependent on EU member states, but we still lack a coherent conceptual framework that does justice to the interdependences and co-constitutive relations between EU countries. Building on relational theory and social psychology, we develop a social relational model about group emotions in the Council that conceptualises under what conditions emotions play a role in EU foreign policy decision-making. We formulate scope c…
Keep on Talking! The Resilience of Multilateral Communications in EU Foreign Policy
How informality keeps multilateralism going
Informal groupings of states – either as stand-alone entities or as part of formal international organizations (IOs) – are playing an increasingly important role in sustaining multilateralism and global governance. But what is it about the informal nature of these groupings that makes them such a critical and increasingly popular fixture of international cooperation? To answer this question, the paper focuses on the role of informal groupings in …
Divided we stand? Examining the European Union’s ability to withstand external wedging
From the Core to the Periphery of EU Foreign Policy
The paper investigates the effects of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) on cooperation dynamics among the remaining member states. To do so, it draws on critical border studies and the scholarship on voluntary withdrawals from International Organizations (IOs). The study conceptualises coalition-building and cooperation dynamics as inclusionary/exclusionary bordering practices, which help draw social boundaries between an intangi…
Preserving the ‘pecking order’ in Europe’s diplomatic hierarchies
The Ukraine war has made it clear that the world should have listened to those Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) who, for years, had been sounding the alarm about Russia. So why did their warnings fall on deaf ears? Even though international organisations (IOs) should ensure equal representation, they end up nonetheless being structured by social hierarchies, …
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