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Pierangelo Isernia

Professor of International Relations and Research Methodology
Department of Political Science
University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10
I-53100 Siena (Italy)
Tel.: +39-0577-235285
Fax: +39-0577-235292
E-mail: isernia@unisi.it

Pierangelo Isernia is currently a professor of International Relations and Research Methodology at the University of Siena in the Department of Political Science. The former director of the graduate school in Political Science , Ph.D in Comparative and European Politics, he teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Additionally, he is working in the following capacities: Director of LAPS (Laboratorio di Analisi Politiche Sociali) at the University of Siena, the Project Coordinator with Maurizio Cotta) INTUNE (Integrated and United, A Quest for Citizenship in an ever closer Europe), funded under the 6th Framework Programme, (2005–2009), EuroPolis- A Polity-Making Project, funded under the 7th Framework Programme, a National Partner and Scientific Advisor of the European Consortium, European Citizens’ Consultation Project, funded by the DG COMM (2006–2007), the Scientific Advisor of the Transatlantic Trend Survey, funded by the US German Marshall Fund the Compagnia di san Paolo and partners (2002–present), a Scientific Advisor for the Transatlantic Survey on Immigration Survey, funded by the US German Marshall Fund and the Compagnia di san Paolo and partners (2007–present), and a Principal Investigator for the European Elite Survey, funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo (2006–present). Finally, he is a Member of the scientific advisory board of TNS Opinion. His research interests are in the area of public opinion and foreign policy, on which he has written several books and articles.

Recent Publications:

• Isernia, P. (with L. Bobbio, I. Fiket, A. Manca and N. Podestà) /La democrazia in un ambiente ostile: un quasi-esperimento deliberativo sul caso della TAV e del diritto di voto a Torino/, in /Stato e Mercato /3
• Isernia, P. (with R. Hermann and P. Segatti) (2009) /Attachment to the Nation and International Relations: Probing the dimensions of identity and their relationship to war and peace/, in /Political Psychology /4
• Isernia, P. (2008) /Present at creation: Italian mass support for European integration in the formative years/ in /European Journal of Political Research/ 47:3 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119402391/abstract
• B. L. Nacos, R. Y. Shapiro and P. Isernia (eds.), Decision-making in a Glass House: Mass Media, Public Opinion and American and European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
• P. Everts and P. Isernia (eds.), Public Opinion and the International Use of Force, London, Routledge, 2001.
• P. Isernia, “The Rational Public and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, No. 2/2003.
• P. Bellucci and P. Isernia, “Massacring in front of a Blind Audience? Italian Public Opinion and Bosnia”, in R. Sobel and E. Shiraev (eds.), International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2003.
• P. Everts and P. Isernia, “Uniti attorno alla Bandiera? Le Opinioni Pubbliche di Europa e Stati Uniti di fronte alla Guerra”, ItalianiEuropei, 2, 2003, pp. 49-77.
• P. Everts and P. Isernia, “Potere, Guerra, e Opinione Pubblica: Falchi e Colombe in Europa e Stati Uniti dopo l’Iraq”, ItalianiEuropei, 4, 2003, pp. 169-186.
• R. Asmus, P. Everts, and P. Isernia, “Power, War, and Public Opinion: Looking behind the Transatlantic Divide”, Policy Review, No. 123, February-March 2004, pp. 73-88. [translated in Dutch: “Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen en transatlantische betrekkingen”, Vrede en Veiligheid, 33, 3, 2004, pp. 401-421; in Italian: “Quale Uso della Forza: Percezioni Europee e Americane a Confronto”, ItalianiEuropei, 4, 2004, pp. 177-194].
• R. Asmus, P. Everts, and P. Isernia, Across the Atlantic and the Political Aisle: the Double Divide in U.S.-European Relations, Interpretive Essay in Transatlantic Trends, 2004.
• P. Isernia, “Meno anti-Americani di altri”, Aspenia, No. 19, Istituto Aspen, Roma, pp. 242-265.
• P. Isernia, “Europei e Atlantici: Gli Italiani di Sempre”, Aspenia, No. 26, pp. 266-278.
• P. Everts and P. Isernia, “The Poll-Trends: The War in Iraq”, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 69, No. 2, 2005, pp. 264-323.
• P. Isernia, “L’Europa vista dagli Italiani: vent’anni dopo”, in M. Cotta, P. Isernia, and L. Verzichelli (a cura di), L’Europa in Italia: Elite, opinione pubblica e decisioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
• T. Ammendola and P. Isernia, “Europeismo degli italiani”, in M. Cotta, P. Isernia and L. Verzichelli (a cura di), L’Europa in Italia: Elite, opinione pubblica e decisioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
• P. Isernia, “Anti-Americanism and European Public Opinion”, in S. Fabbrini, ed., America Contested. The Limits and Future of American Unilateralism, London, Routledge, 2005.
• P. Everts and P. Isernia, “Partners Apart? The Foreign Policy Attitudes of the American and European Publics”, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 5, No. 2, 2005, pp. 229-258.
• Italiani Europei, 4, 2004, pp. 177–194]
• P. Everts, P. Isernia, “European Public Opinion on Security Issues.” European Security,2006
• La democrazia in un ambiente ostile: un quasi-esperimento deliberativo sul caso della TAV e del diritto di voto a Torino”, Stato e Mercato. 3, 2008, pp.443-474 (with Luigi Bobbio, Irena Fiket, Anna Manca and Noemi Podestà)
• “Attachment to the Nation and International Relations: Probing the dimensions of identity and their relationship to war and peace” Political Psychology, n. 4 2009 (with Richard Herrmann and Paolo Segatti).