Alessandro ALBANA

Current positions

[2022-present] Adjunct Professor / Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

[2021-present] Research Fellow / Asia Institute (Bologna)

Education

[2015-2019] Ph.D. in "Global and International Studies" / Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna

[2011-2014] M.A. summa cum laude in "International Relations" / School of Political Science, University of Bologna

[2007-2011] B.A. in "Political Science and International Relations" / School of Political Science, University of Messina

Teaching experience

[2020-2021] Adjunct Professor / "Lorenzo de’ Medici" Italian International Institue (Florence)

International fellowships and academic exchanges

[2024, forthcoming] Visiting Research Fellow / Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University (Shanghai)

[2023] Visiting Fellow / Open University (Milton Keynes, UK)

[2019] Visiting Research Fellow / China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing)

[2018] Member of the "EU Leading Think Tanks Delegation to China" / Central Committee of the CPC, International Department; People’s Government of Yunnan Province, Foreign Affairs Office (Beijing, Kunming and Yunnan Province)

[2016-2017] Visiting Ph.D. student, Erasmus+ International Mobility Program / China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing)

Publications

Albana, Alessandro & Fiori, Antonio (eds.). "Taiwan: A Frontline of Democracy under Threat?". Special issue, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (pubblicazione imminente)

Albana, Alessandro. “Pursuing Stability through Competition: India’s Reactive Strategy to China’s Rise in the Indo-Pacific”. In South Asia. State, Society and Politics, edited by Ali Asker, Md Nazmul İslam, Büşra Yengeç Ersin & Amir Ahmed Khuhro, 563-582. Ankara: Nobel Publishing Group, 2023

Albana, Alessandro. "Young Political Activists in the Xi Jinping Era: The Jasic Struggle and the Prospect for Social Mobilization in China". In National Identity and Millenials in Japan and China: Power and Contestations in the Digital Age, edited by Vanessa Frangville, Thierry Kellner & Frederik Ponjaert, 130-147. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2023

Proserpio, Licia, Cappi, Valentina & Albana, Alessandro. "Taking Cover before the Outbreak: Understanding Precautionary Behaviours of Chinese in Italy in the COVID-19 Scenario". Fuori Luogo 12, no. 2 (November 2022), 135-152

Albana, Alessandro. "La Cina Maoista: dalla Nascita della Repubblica Popolare alla Rivoluzione Culturale". In Asia: Storia, Istituzioni e Relazioni Internazionali, edited by Antonio Fiori, Marco Milani & Andrea Passeri, 269-289. Milano: Le Monnier, 2022

Albana, Alessandro. "La Crisi della Dinastia Qing e la Nascita della Repubblica di Cina". In Asia: Storia, Istituzioni e Relazioni Internazionali, edited by Antonio Fiori, Marco Milani & Andrea Passeri, 111-130. Milano: Le Monnier, 2022

Albana, Alessandro. "La Quinta Generazione di Leader: la Cina di Xi Jinping". In Asia: Storia, Istituzioni e Relazioni Internazionali, edited by Antonio Fiori, Marco Milani & Andrea Passeri, 515-530. Milano: Le Monnier, 2022

Albana, Alessandro. "L’Impatto dell’Arrivo delle Potenze Straniere in Cina (1860-1900)". In Asia: Storia, Istituzioni e Relazioni Internazionali, edited by Antonio Fiori, Marco Milani & Andrea Passeri, 19-35. Milano: Le Monnier, 2022

Albana, Alessandro. "Beijing Turns to the Seas. Combining Assertive Postures with Cooperation". In Asia in World Politics: Past, Present and Future, edited by Marcin Socha & Michał Zaręba, 11-25. Lodz: Lodz University Press, 2021

Albana, Alessandro & Fiori, Antonio. "China and the BRI: Challenges and Opportunities for Southeast Asia". In Rebalancing Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), edited by Praimod Jaiswal & Deepak Prakash Bhatt, 149-159. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021

Albana, Alessandro. Review of Europe in Emerging Asia: Opportunities and Obstacles in Political and Economic Encounters, edited by Fredrik Erixon & Krishnan Srinivasan. Ricerche di Storia Politica 2 (2018): 233-234

Conferences and invited talks

[2022] Hong Kong as Method? Navigating China’s Political Prospects in the Wake of the National Security Law - 10th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography "New Geo-Politics in East Asia" / Department of Geography, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

[2022] Taking Cover before the Outbreak: Understanding Precautionary Behaviors of the Chinese in Italy in the COVID-19 Scenario – "Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care (30th Anniversary Conference of the Founding of the ISSCO)" / Asian American Research Center (AARC) and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) of the University of California, Berkeley (San Francisco, CA)

[2022] Facing Troubled Waters? Navigating the Impact of a Changing China-Europe Relation in the Indo-Pacific - 5th China-East Asia International Symposium "East Asia and China in a Time of Once-in-a-Century Global Changes" / Faculty of International Politics, School of Political Science and Public Administration – China University of Political Science and Law (Online)

[2020] China’s Soft Power Strategy in Italy and Its Results: Have the BRI and Mask Diplomacy Won? (with Antonio Fiori and Beatrice Gallelli) – Workshop on "European Public Opinion on China in the Age of Covid-19" / Central European Institute of Asian Studies; Palacký University Olomouc; Sinophnoe Borderlands (Online)

[2020] Chinese Investment in EU Ports: Reasons and Prospects for a Geo-Economic Shift from Central-Western Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean – "German Association of Political Science (GAPS) Conference" / GAPS; University of Freiburg (Online)

[2020] China's Investment in EU Ports: Assessing Geo-Economic Implications of the BRI in Maritime Europe – "Asia-Europe Sustainable Connectivity Scientific Conference" / Asia-Europe Foundation; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia; EU; Center for China & Globalization (Online).

[2019] Making Assertiveness Sustainable and Supporting Maritime Order: Understanding China’s Naval Strategy and its Role in Beijing’s Global Rise – "Colloquium in Military History" / Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support; University of Potsdam (Potsdam)

[2019] Il Movimento del 4 Maggio nel Discorso Politico Cinese Contemporaneo – "La Storia Contemporanea in Italia Oggi: Ricerche e Tendenze" / Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (Modena)

[2019] Nationalism and Student Activism: The Divided Legacy of the May Fourth Movement in China's Political Discourse – "Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies / Institute of Chinese Studies" – The Chinese University of Hong Kong; CUHK – Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (Hong Kong)

[2019] Young Political Activists in the Xi Jinping Era: Assessing Prospects and Constraints of Social Mobilization in China – Workshop on "National Identities and the Youth in East Asia: Popular Culture, Political Mobilisation, and Digital Spaces" / Free University of Brussels (Bruxelles)

[2018] Territorial Disputes and the Maritime Silk Road: Assessing China’s Reasons and Limits to Cooperation in the South China Sea – "Italian Standing Group on International Relations (SGRI) Conference" / SGRI (Bologna)

[2018] Pursuing Stability Through Competition: India’s Reactive Strategy to China’s Rise in the Indo-Pacific – "Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), XXXII Convegno" / SISP (Torino)

[2018] Beijing Turns to the Seas. Combining Assertive Postures with Cooperation – "Lodz East Asia Meeting" / Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Lodz (Lodz)

Scholarships and grants

[2024, forthcoming] Visiting Scholar Program Research Grant/ Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University (Shanghai)

[2023] Short Term Scientific Mission grant / European Cooperation in Science and Technology; China in Europe Research Network

[2015-2018] Fully funded Ph.D. scholarship / University of Bologna

[2016-2017] "Erasmus+" International Mobility Grant for Doctoral Students / University of Bologna

Collaborations and other projects

[2021] Website and online platform manager of the "Synergizing Sustainability – Policy coherence, the SDGs, and agricultural development policy in Sub-Saharan Africa" / Radboud University (Nijmegen)

[2019-2020] Assistant coordinator of the "EU-Asia Politics and Market Studies Platform" / Aoyama Gakuin University, Korea University, Toyo University, University of Bologna (Forlì)

[2016-2018] Analyst / Center for Contemporary China Studies (Reggio Emilia)