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Giovedì 15.30-17.30 su appuntamento

Curriculum

Niccolò Petrelli, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Political Sciences Roma Tre University Via Gabriello Chiabrera, 199, 00145 Roma RM, Italy nicpetrelli@gmail.com • niccolo.petrelli@uniroma3.it PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITA’ ROMA TRE Rome, Italy 07/2022 – present Assistant Professor, Strategic Studies Department of Political Sciences STARTINSIGHT Lugano, Switzerland 07/2021 – present Senior Researcher UNIVERSITA’ ROMA TRE Rome, Italy 09/2016 – 06/2022 Adjunct Professor, Strategic Studies Department of Political Sciences UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Leeds, UK 09/2015 – 07/2016 Lecturer, Politics and International History School of History STANFORD UNIVERSITY Palo Alto (CA), USA 09/2013 – 07/2015 Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies UNIVERSITA’ ROMA TRE Rome, Italy 03/2009 – 06/2009 Teaching Fellow Department of Political Sciences 10/2007 – 02/2008 Teaching Fellow Department of Political Sciences CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES Rome, Italy 04/2004 – 09/2006 Military Fellow, Military Center for Strategic Studies EDUCATION ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY Roma, Italy 01/2010-06/2013 Ph.D., Political Science and International Studies Dissertation: “Israel’s struggle against Hamas: Strategic Culture, Adaptation and War” SOCIETA’ ITALIANA PER L’ORGANIZZAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE (SIOI) Roma, Italy 11/2004-06/2005 M.Sc., International Relations ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY Roma, Italy 07/2003 M.A., Political Science (Laurea quadriennale) Graduated summa cum laude (110/110 e lode). ADDITIONAL TRAINING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – CORNELL UNIVERSITY Ithaca (NY), USA 07/2015 Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies WILSON CENTER – UNIVERSITA’ ROMA TRE Allumiere (RM), Italy 07/2013 Nuclear History Bootcamp Department of Political Sciences PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES “La Cooperazione di Intelligence Italia-USA, l’Alleanza Atlantica, e l’Evoluzione dell’Operazione «Gladio»”, Rivista Italiana di Storia Internazionale (https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.30461/106050) “Analytical Innovation in Intelligence Systems: The US National Security Establishment and the Craft of ‘Net Assessment’” Intelligence & National Security 37/1 (2022), 1-18. “Military Innovation and Defence Acquisition: Lessons from the F-35 Programme”, Istituto Affari Internazionali Papers (January 2020). “Nuclear Superiority in the Age of Parity: US Planning, Intelligence Analysis Weapons Innovation and the Search for a Qualitative Edge, 1969-1976”, The International History Review 40/5 (2018), 1191-1209 (with Giordana Pulcini). “Deterring Insurgents: Culture, Adaptation and the Evolution of the Israeli Counterinsurgency”, Journal of Strategic Studies, 36/5 (2013), 666-691. “The Missing Dimension: IDF Special Operations Forces and Strategy in the Second Lebanon War”, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 23/1 (2012), 56-73. BOOKS Israel Strategic Culture and the Conflict with Hamas: Adaptation and Military Effectiveness (London/New York, Routledge, 2018). OTHER PUBLICATIONS La Deterrenza nel XXI Secolo (Lugano, StartInsight, 2022). La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina (Lugano,StartInsight, 2021). “NATO, Strategy and Net Assessment”, NATO Defense College Policy Brief no. 10 (May 2021). L’Evoluzione della Teoria della Deterrenza, Undisclosed customer (November 2019) (with Andrea Gilli). CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES “La Dinamica dell’Adattamento nel Conflitto Asimmetrico: Le Forze Armate Israeliane, Hamas, e l’intifada al-Aqsa” in Giorgio Cuzelli & Matteo Bressan (a cura di) Da Clausewitz a Putin: La Guerra nel XXI Secolo (Milano: Ledizioni, 2022). “La Strategia nella Guerra più Lunga” in Andrea Manciulli e Enrico Casini (a cura di) 2001–2021 Vent’anni di guerra al terrore (Lugano: StartInsight/Europatlantica, 2022). WORKS IN PROGRESS Net Assessment and Grand Strategy: Theory for Practice (Book Manuscripts in Progress) “The Wrong Shortcut? Alliances and Military Innovation in Italy, 1958-2018” (article in progress with Leopoldo Nuti) “Alle Origini della Guerra: USA, Russia e l’Allargamento dell’Alleanza Atlantica 2000-2014” (chapter in progress with Leopoldo Nuti) “Technological Innovation, Organizational Adaptation and the Effectiveness of Intelligence Systems” (article in progress) VISITING and TEMPORARY POSITIONS NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE Academic Mentor for Senior Course Rome, Italy 03/2019 – 01/2023 NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE Eisenhower Defense Fellow Rome, Italy 10/2020 – 12/2020 LIBERA UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI SOCIALI (LUISS) Rome, Italy 04/2020 – 06/2021 Adjunct Instructor, Executive Course in Strategic Affairs SAPIENZA UNIVERSITA’ DI ROMA Rome, Italy 05/2018 – 12/2022 Adjunct Instructor, Master in Geopolitics and International Security SOCIETA’ ITALIANA PER L’ORGANIZZAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE (SIOI) Rome, Italy 04/2020 – 04/2022 Adjunct Instructor, Spring School: Terrorismo e Guerre Ibride MILITARY CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Rome, Italy 04/2017 – 12/2017 Adjunct Researcher INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COUNTERTERRORISM Herzliya, Israel 10/2011 – 03/2012 Visiting Scholar GRANTS and AWARDS MINISTRY OF UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATION Rome, ITA 2022 PRIN Research Grant MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Rome, ITA 2021 Research Grant NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE Rome, ITA 2020 Eisenhower Grant SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION Westport (CT), USA 2015 SWAMOS Summer Grant CARNEGIE CORPORATION New York, USA 2013 Nuclear History Boot Camp Summer Grant TEACHING EXPERIENCE Roma Tre University Rome, Italy Fall 2016-Present Strategic Studies (MA Level) Roma Tre University Rome, Italy Spring 2021-Present, Technology and International Security (MA Level) UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Palo Alto (CA), USA Fall 2015-Spring 2016 The Israeli-Arab-Palestinian Conflict History of Transnational War Volunteers Covert Operations and Foreign Policy during the Cold War (MA level) School of History and Politics STANFORD UNIVERSITY Palo Alto (CA), USA Spring 2015 Security in a Changing World (Mentor) Department of Political Science PRESENTATIONS and TALKS - “Italian European Security Policy and Nuclear Sharing”, Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris June, 23-24, 2022. - “Technological Innovation, Organizational and Operational Adaptation and the Future of Military Intelligence: An Interim Assessment of the Revolution in Intelligence”, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, September, 10, 2021. - “NATO Strategy and Net Assessment”, NATO Communication and Information Agency, September, 7, 2021. - “Innovation: The F-35 and Multinational Capabilities”, NATO Defense College, March, 22, 2021. - “Net Assessment and Strategy”, NATO Defense College, March, 19 2021. - “Covid 19: NATO in the Age of Pandemics”, Festival della Diplomazia, October, 26 2020. - “Multinational Capabilities: Risks and Opportunities”, NATO Defense College, September, 30, 2020. - “Military Technology, Procurement and the Future of Transatlantic Defense Industrial Cooperation”, Istituto Affari Internazionali, February, 28 2020. - “Strategy in Complex Environments as Heuristics: Lessons from Systemic Operational Design and Net Assessment”, Royal Danish Defense College, December, 11, 2019. - “The Wrong Shortcut? Alliances and Military Innovation”, European Initiative on Security Studies Annual Conference, June 28 2019. - “Searching for the Right Place: The Transformation of the US Net Assessment System”, SHAFR Annual Conference, June 21 2019. - “NATO and the Concept of Deterrence in a Great Power Competition Era”, Italian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies, May 7 2019. - “Keeping the Pace: Technology and Military Innovation in the Italian Armed Forces”, University of St. Andrews, School of International Relations, December, 4, 2018. - “Netting the Balance: Organization, Analysis and US Nuclear Strategy”, The Jerusalem Workshop on Nuclear Affairs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July, 3, 2018. - “Le Riflessioni Strategiche della Diplomazia Italiana”, Convegno ‘L’Italia a il Potere Nucleare’, Istituto Luigi Sturzo, April, 12, 2018. - “Net Assessment, Competitive Intelligence Analysis and US National Strategy”, ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, April, 5, 2018. - “Towards a Paradigm Shift in Military Operational Thinking? From Conventional to Unconventional Warfare”, AEGES Annual Convention, Science Po, Paris, December, 15, 2017. - “Reverse-engineering Strategy? Albert Wohlstetter, RAND’s Systems Analysis and the Transformation of Strategic Thought in the Nuclear Age, 1946-1959”, SHAFR Annual Convention, June, 22, 2016. - “Technology, Counter-Terrorism and Third-Party Interventions in Civil Wars: Lessons from 14 Years of War”, CERI, Science Po, Paris, January, 20, 2016. - “Making US Defense Strategy in the Cold War: The Evolution of Systems Analysis, 1959-1970”, London School of Economics Cold War Conference, September, 19, 2015. - “Making Strategy in the Nuclear Age: The Craft and Transformation of Systems Analysis, 1946-1959”, Nuclear Studies Research Initiative (NSRI) annual workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), May, 2, 2015. - “Classic Counterinsurgency: A Conceptual Analysis”, CISAC Social Science Seminar, Stanford University, March, 12, 2015. - “The Development of Counterinsurgency Theory: An Assessment”, CISAC Social Science Seminar, Stanford University, October, 31, 2o15. - “The Evolution of Israeli Counterinsurgency, 1950-2005”, Second Annual Conference on Terrorism, Insurgency and Asymmetric Conflict, West Point Military Academy, March, 26, 2012. LANGUAGE SKILLS Languages: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), Hebrew (basic). MEDIA Occasional contributor for Huffington Post; Aspenia, EuropaAtlantica, Formiche, Med-Or.