The new issue of Italian Political Science is out, with my and Federica Prandin's article on "Crumbling Middlepowerness? Italy’s Relations with Russia amidst the Russo-Ukrainian War and Geopolitical Tensions" italianpoliticalscience.com/index.php/ip...

The TEPSA Experts' Debrief on EU Strategic Autonomy is out, with my piece on strategic autonomy in energy policy! Update: as argued, the EU depends on LNG from Trump's US; now supplies from the Middle East (ie. Qatar) are threatened too, causing a spike in prices with low EU gas storage levels

📢 Call for Panels & Papers for the Conference of the International Relations and Russia and Post-Soviet Space standing groups of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Palermo, 18-19 June 2026: standinggroups.sisp.it/internationa... 📅 Deadline for proposals on 28 February 2026

My piece on Rosatom’s energy geopolitics came out in the new issue of La Vanguardia Dossier, all devoted to nuclear energy and featuring the analyses of several international experts dossier.lavanguardia.com @lavanguardia.com @fiia.fi #energy #nuclearenergy #Russia #Rosatom

My new chapter on EU-Russia energy relations (or what's left of them) in a good book edited by Dag Harald Claes, with many other contributions on a broad range of topics: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/ene... Link to the chapter: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... @fiia.fi #energy #EU #Russia

Today's article on @uusijuttu.fi focusing on recent developments in EU energy and climate policy (in Finnish): www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sCX59A... My input relies on recent research 'tracking' progress and issues of the European Green Deal. Thanks @mattikoskinen.bsky.social and colleagues! @fiia.fi

🗺️ Full Special Issue out now, "East, South and Up: In Search of Italy's Global Role", edited by Emidio Diodato & Raffaele Marchetti, with my article "From middle power to subordinate ally? Meloni’s foreign policy in the aftermath of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rita20/1...

✍ Our new Briefing Paper assesses progress on the EU's Green Deal as of 2025: after several landmark achievements, its ambitious agenda is under threat due to 'greenlash', shifting political support, and both domestic and external challenges 👇 @tepsa.bsky.social @greendealnet.eu

📢 The long Research Paper "The Tipping Point: An Emerging Model of European Security with Ukraine and without Russia", edited by Susan Stewart and Céline Marangé, is now out at @swp-berlin.org I contributed the chapter on Italy. www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati... @fiia.fi @tepsa.bsky.social

New issue of Baltic Rim Economies on Poland, with my contribution on the Polish-Ukrainian memory conflict (p. 31) and many other interesting pieces, with sometimes very different opinions on the country's trajectory www.centrumbalticum.org/files/6913/B...

New chapter on the EU’s vision for a multipolar order - it’s fair to ask if the EU has one! - written by @nhelwig.bsky.social, @sinkkonenville.bsky.social and myself, soon also in open access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

New publication by @marcosiddi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very excited to share our new article, “From Role Change to Policy Change: EU Member States and Change in EU Foreign Policy After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”, authored with @marcosiddi.bsky.social , published in the Journal of European Integration. Free to read: doi.org/10.1080/0703...

How has EU foreign policy changed since the beginning of Russia's war on Ukraine? FIIA researchers @tyynekarjalainen.bsky.social & @marcosiddi.bsky.social analyse the shift in their new article, published in the Journal of European Integration. ✍️ Read here ⤵️ doi.org/10.1080/0703...

The last discussion of our upcoming #CypriotPPC will focus on Europe's green transition with Alexia Sakadaki (Cyprus Green Party), @charlesellinas.bsky.social (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social), Andreas Poullikas (Frederick University), @marcosiddi.bsky.social (@fiia.fi). 🔗 tepsa.eu/policy-advic...

...Now out as a book: “Owning the Past: The Omnipresence of Divergent Historical Narratives in Law and Politics”, edited by brilliant scholars Angelika Nussberger & Paula Rhein-Fischer, with my chapter 'The Politics of Forgetting and Foreign Policy'. Free access at verfassungsblog.de/wp-content/u...

An interview with @financialtimes.com from some months ago on the global green subsidy race, still relevant.. www.ft.com/content/852a...

🤓 From 'middle power' to subordinate ally? My new article on the descending trajectory of Italy's foreign policy and influence under Giorgia Meloni 📓 This is part of a forthcoming special issue edited by Profs Emidio Diodato and Raffaele Marchetti, with many other interesting contributions

...Environmentally better and probably more effective militarily than building a fence... www.ft.com/content/f36d...

As I argued recently (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), national nuclear industries need state aid in order to survive domestically, let alone compete in the international market. But does it make sense for the EU to invest in nuclear while renewables are cheaper, more decentralised and resilient?

With my comments on Meloni's foreign policy strategy (or lack thereof), as well as her inability to persuade Trump or reap benefits for Italy from her supposed preferential relationship with the US president @fiia.fi

OUT NOW: Luca Pantaleo and @marcosiddi.bsky.social have edited a great volume on the rule of law crisis and #DemocraticBacksliding in Europe, to which I have contributed a chapter on the rise and normalisation of the far right at EU level. Have a look, it's open access! 👇

Excellent (if very hot) 2 days in Milan last week at the conference of the Italian Standing Group on International Relations, co-organised with the SG Russia & Post-Soviet Space that I co-chair with Alessandra Russo and Nicolò Fasola

Good piece by Adam Tooze on European rearmament on.ft.com/3ZI7TPx

Occasionally, some semblance of an independent European stance appears, at least in rhetoric. But even if we take Macron seriously (there is much evidence to suggest otherwise), the other leader of the Franco-German motor offers a sad spectacle by kowtowing to Trump today www.ft.com/content/291e...

I was interviewed for a good article on the energy transition in Europe and its challenges by excellent journalists writing for Climate Home News www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/16/e...

New Polish president Karol Nawrocki has been (co-)responsible for the country’s awful memory politics for years. I encountered his name and profile while researching the subversion of the then new Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk in 2018-9 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

European Energy Politics - Marco Siddi | 2023 Episode 37 What drives the EU’s energy politics? Dr Marco Siddi @marcosiddi.bsky.social unpacks the geopolitics of energy and the fallout of the Ukraine war on energy relations. #EnergyGeopolitics #GreenTransition #EUGreenDeal youtu.be/qrjzWol5D7E

🔎 How can we ensure a fair energy transition? Policymakers back the shift to low-carbon energy, but ensuring fairness remains complex. This Working Paper compares how the EGD and the US IRA approach energy justice—focusing on procedural, recognition-based, and distributional fairness Read it here👇

Glad to host Rainer Quitzow and Luana Ladu from Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit (RIFS) and @tuberlin.bsky.social in my courses at Cagliari University on 16 April

Join us at the next webinar of the ECPR Research Network on Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance! We will host Marja Helena Sivonen from the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) @syke.fi 📅 Friday, April 4th, 2025 ⏲️ 12.00 (GMT) / 13.00 (CET) ▶️ Info & Registration: ecpr.eu/Events/296

A recent contribution to @verfassungsblog.de on 'The Politics of Forgetting and Foreign Policy', with a look into the case of Italy. Meloni's right-wing government is trying to revise & refocus the memory of Italy's fascist past by portraying Italians as victims verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...

An interview - in good company of excellent colleagues - on the future of Europe, where I contributed on the Italian government's stance (in Finnish) www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sP5VBh...

Brilliant to see @fiia.fi Briefing Paper by my excellent colleagues @marcosiddi.bsky.social, Tuomas Iso-Markku, @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu & Niklas Helwig quoted in @financialtimes.com piece on landmark #German elections tomorrow. www.ft.com/content/e5c0...

The @fiia.fi briefing paper on the Bundestag elections analyses the major political challenges facing Germany - in terms of domestic, European and foreign policy. By @marcosiddi.bsky.social, Tuomas Iso-Markku, @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu and @nhelwig.bsky.social

Authored by @marcosiddi.bsky.social & Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek and first published by @fiia.fi