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Dr Chiara De Franco

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Research Associate

Room GL 07

Department of War Studies

King's College London
Strand Bridge House,
138-142 Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Email: chiara.de_franco@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1675
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2026
 

 

Research interests

  • IR Theories, Constructivist and Critical Approaches
  • International Political Communication
  • Conflict and Mass Atrocities Prevention
  • Conflict Mediation
  • European Union Foreign Policy
  • Visual Culture
  • Language and Social Theory, Semiotic and Pragmatic Approaches

Biography

Chiara de Franco, Laurea cum laude (Università di Bologna), MRes, PhD (European University Institute, Florence) is currently Research Associate at King’s College London, Department. of War Studies.

She has been previously Research Assistant at the European University Institute, Lecturer in International Relations Theory and War Representations at the University of Florence, and Lecturer in European Affairs at the Florida State University (Florence Programme).

Her professional training includes a working experience at the UNDPKO, Situation Center, NYC Headquarters, and the development of several documentary movies.

Current Research

Dr Chiara de Franco is deputy director of the Foresight Research Group and coordinator of the Task Force for the Improvement of the EU's Capabilities to Prevent Mass Atrocities. In this framework, she is researching and writing on the Balkan conflicts, the warning-response systems of the OSCE and the UN, and on political communication and text analysis. Her specialisations include International political communication and constructivist approaches to International Relations. Other research interests include the use of religious discourses in conflict mediation. Her first monograph, on the impact of international TV networks on the transformation of war, is in print (Palgrave Macmillan).

Publications

Books

Under Review   Warning about War (co-authored with Christoph Meyer, John Brante and Florian Otto and under review with Cambridge University Press).

In Print    Media Power and the Transformation of War (Palgrave Macmillan).

2011       Forecasting, Warning and Transnational Risks. Palgrave Macmillan (co-edited with Christoph O Meyer).

 

Articles

2012    “Is There a Specific Ambivalence of the Sacred? Illustrations from the Apparition of Medjugorie and the Movement of Sant’Egidio”, Politics, Religion & Ideology (co-authored with Mariano Barbato and Brigitte LeNormand).

2011    “‘Worse, Not Better?’ Reinvigorating Early Warning For Conflict Prevention In The Post Lisbon European Union”, Egmont Paper 48, Gent: Academia Press (co-authored with John Brante, Christoph Meyer and Florian Otto).

2010    “The Media and Post-modern Conflict,” Encyclopedia of International Studies, Vol. La-Op. New York: Blackwell.

2010    “Re-casting the Warning-Response-Problem: Persuasion and Preventive Policy”, International Studies Review, 12(4) (co-authored with Christoph O Meyer, Florian Otto, and John Brante).

2009    “Is there a European Way of War?”, Armed Forces and Society, Volume 35, Issue 4 (co-authored with Pascal Vennesson, Fabian Breuer and Ursula Schroeder).

 

Chapters in Books

2011    “Introduction: The Challenge of Prevention” (co-authored with Christoph O. Meyer), Chiara de Franco and Christoph O Meyer (eds.) Forecasting, Warning and Transnational Risks (Palgrave McMillan).

2011    “Mediatised Warnings: Late, Wrong, Yet Indispensible? Lessons from Climate Change And Civil War” (co-authored with Christoph O. Meyer), Chiara de Franco and Christoph O. (eds.) Forecasting, Warning and Transnational Risks (Palgrave McMillan).

2011    Chiara de Franco, “Conclusion: Successful Warning About Transnational Risks” (co-authored with Christoph O. Meyer), Chiara de Franco and Christoph O Meyer (eds.) Forecasting, Warning and Transnational Risks (Palgrave McMillan).

2010    “Is there a European Way of War?” (coauthored with Pascal Vennesson, Fabian Breuer,  and Ursula Schroeder), Frederic Merand, Martial Foucault, Bastien Irondelle (eds.) European Security Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall (University of Toronto Press).

2004    “Media e Conflitti Internazionali”, E. Diodato (ed.) Comunicazione e Politica Internazionale (Rubbettino).

2004    “Effetti sistemici e relazionali dei media”, E. Diodato (ed.) Comunicazione e politica internazionale (Rubbettino).

2004    “Applicazione del modello neurale al caso dell’Afghanistan”, E. Diodato (ed.) Comunicazione e politica internazionale (Rubbettino).

 

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