Biography
Stefano Guzzini holds the Chair in Political and Social Theory, as well as the Swiss Co-chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance. He is on long-term leave from Uppsala University and the Danish Institute for International Studies. He previously held positions at the Central European University and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and was guest professor at the Universities of Bremen, Ljubljana, Lublin, and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was a fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies / Department of Government, Cornell University. He served as the editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development and co-editor of International Theory, as well as President of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA). He is currently Associate Editor of Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Bristol Studies in International Theory.
Guzzini’s research interests cover international relations theory and theorisation (meta-theory, theories of symbolic action, concept analysis), social and political theories (power, recognition), foreign policy analysis, security studies, (critical) geopolitics, qualitative methods (interpretivist process tracing) and research design. Recently, he has been publishing on the re-militarization of European politics, understanding prudence in world politics, constructivist foreign policy analysis, the concept and analysis of power in International Political Sociology, Chinese IR Theory, and process and relational ontologies.
He supervises dissertations within the above fields but is also open to advising doctoral work in IR as well as social and political theory IR more broadly.