Raff Pantucci
Raffaello Pantucci graduated from the University of Manchester with a BA in literature. He subsequently went to work in Washington at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) where concentrated on transatlantic and European political and military affairs. While at CSIS he worked and contributed to a number of reports including "Test of Will, Tests of Efficacy" (May 2005, CSIS Press: Washington, DC) and "Trusted Partners: Technology Transfers in the U.S.-UK Defense Relationship" (May 2006, CSIS Press: Washington, DC). He returned to the UK in 2006 and started working at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) where he worked first for the Director of Studies, and then as a research associate in the Transnational Threats and Political Risk program, contributing to the Institute's work on European security and terrorism and radicalization. During this period he also completed an MA in War Studies at King's College, London. In October 2010 he left IISS to join the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) where he works on EU-China relations. In April 2009 he was awarded a European Commission Science and Technology Fellowship Programme China grant meaning he will be based primarily in China until 2011.
His writing has appeared in newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, European Voice, Guardian, Moscow Times, and magazines like the New Statesman, HSToday and Safety & Security International. He has also been published in academic outlets like Democratization, Europe’s World, Perspectives on Terrorism, RUSI Journal, SAIS Review, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Survival, and Terrorism and Political Violence and writes regularly for the Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Monitor. Much of his writing can be found at: http://www.raffaellopantucci.com
Introduction
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