Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)


POLIS Academic

Dr Mette Eilstrup Sangiovanni

University Lecturer in International Studies

Dr. Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni is University Lecturer in International Studies at the Centre of International Studies (CIS) and Fellow in International Relations at Sidney Sussex College. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2001). Prior to joining the CIS she was a post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies (2000-2002). She joined the CIS in 2002.

Dr. Eilstrup-Sangiovanni's main research interests are in the areas of International Organization and International Security. She is particularly interested in institutional design and the impact of international institutions upon states' ability to make credible commitments and to signal intent. In recent research projects she has studied transgovernmental security networks as an institutional alternative to international treaty organizations. She has also researched the organizational structure and organizational advantages of illicit terrorist and criminal networks. Her other research interests include regional integration, the European Union, and European Foreign and Security Policy.

Dr. Eilstrup-Sangiovanni has published on various aspects of international security cooperation, transatlantic relations, theoretical approaches to international integration, and transgovernmental and transnational networks. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the historical formation of states unions. She has taught courses on International Organization, International Relations Theory, International Security, The History and Theory of European Integration, and Research Design and Methodology.

Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni also maintains her own website.

Select Recent Publications

In Print

  • “Strengths and Weaknesses of Networks: Why al-Qaeda may be Less Dangerous than Most Think”, International Security, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall 2008) pp. 7-44 (w. Calvert Jones).
  • “Refuting Balance-of-Power Theory? A Comment on Wohlforth et al.’s ‘Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History’”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 15, no 2 (Spring 2009).
  • “Varieties of Cooperation: Government Networks in International Security”, in Miles Kahler, ed., Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance,  pp. 194-227. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009.
  • “Binding Hegemons. Power Transition and Regional Integration in the European Communities and the German Zollverein”. Journal of Comparative European Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2008)

Book Cover ImageDebates in European Integration, The European Union Series (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

  • “European Integration as a Solution to War” (w. D. Verdier), European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 11, No. 1, (2005), pp. 99-135.
  • “Transnational Networks and New Security Threats”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 18, no. 1 (April 2005), pp. 7-13.
  • “Why a Common Foreign and Security Policy is Bad for Europe”, Survival, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Winter 2003), pp. 193-206.

Working Papers and Other Publications

  • “Varieties of Cooperation: Government Networks in International Security”, Working Paper, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Transatlantic Programme Series, RSCAS 2007/24, pp. 1-53. “Uneven Power and the Pursuit of Peace—How Regional Power Transition Promotes Integration”. Working Paper Series, Centre of European Studies, Harvard University, No. 150/2007, pp. 1-38.
  • “European Integration as a Solution to War” (w. D. Verdier), Juan Marc Working Paper, Madrid, Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, 2004.
  • “Europe’s Common Foreign and Security Policy”, in Encyclopedia of the European Union (New York, N.Y: Routledge 2006)."
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