Emanuele Castelli is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Parma., where he teaches Political Science and International Politics.
Rector's Delegate for Social Justice (2023-2029), he is the Chair of the Political Science Programme (BA in Political Science and MA in European and International Relations) and Director of the Center for Studies in European and International Affairs (CSEIA). From September 2024 he is the Coordinator of the European Project FOSTER - Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence.
He previously was Assistant Professor at the University of Parma (2016-2021), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento (2012-2016), Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen (2013-2016) and Instructor at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento (2015-2016). From 2007 to 2011 he was Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Bologna (Forlì campus), where we taught Strategic Studies and International Politics, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Irvine (2008). Since 2012 he is in charge of managing the activities of the Italian Standing Group on International Relations (SGRI), and its annual Conference.
He took part to a number of national and international research projects, funded by the Ministry of Education (PRIN 2005, 2008), by NATO Allied Command Transformation and private bank foundations. He is the author of two books on the Theory of Revolutions, co-author of an edited book on identity-based conflicts (with Filippo Andreatta) and author or co-author of several chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals.
His research focuses on the determinants of political violence, with a recent emphasis on the manipulation of food resources in armed conflicts. He is the author of two monographs and the author or co-author of several articles published in international journals.
Among his most recent publications are: «Russia, Ukraine and food warfare» (con S. Papale), in International Affairs (2026), «Food, Terrorism, and the Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab Insurgencies» (con S. Papale), in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2025), «Sviluppo economico e violenza politica. Una visione schumpeteriana» (Milano, Vita e pensiero 2022); «Lost in transition: the myth of Mao and the origins of COIN» (con S. Dossi e L. Zambernardi), in Small Wars & Insurgencies (2021), «Bargaining toward Pareto-Efficiency. Relative Gains, Simultaneity and the Case of South Tyrol», in Terrorism & Political Violence (2019); «The Arc of Modernization: Economic Structure, Materialism, and the Onset of Civil Conflict» (with T. Chatagnier) in «Political Science Research and Methods» 7 (2) 2019; «Force Protection and its Trade-offs» (with L. Zambernardi) in D. Reiter (ed), The Sword's other Edge. Tradeoffs in Military Effectiveness (Cambridge University Press 2017).
He received an BA in Political Science (2000), an MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna (2002) and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Parma (2005).
