Fabio Figiaconi

Associate Fellow

Fabio Figiaconi is a Postdoctoral Resear­cher at Goethe University Frank­furt and an Asso­ciate Fellow at PRIF's Research Depart­ment Inter­national Insti­tutions and LOEWE Re­search Group World Orders in Conflict. His work focuses on great power competition, great powers/secondary states security dynamics, hedging, alliance politics, inter­national relations of the Indo-Pacific, and Euro­pean Union external action.

Fabio Figiaconi
figiaconi(at)prif.org

CV

| since March 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher at the LOEWE Research Group “World Orders in Conflict”, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

| since March 2026
Associate Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany

| since August 2025
Adjunct Lecturer: course “Comparative Regional Studies”, Bachelor in International Affairs, Vesalius College Brussels, Belgium

| February 2022 – June 2024
Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer: course “European Union Foreign Policy”, Advanced Master in European Integration, Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

| February 2023 – April 2023
Visiting Researcher, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, United States of America

| October 2023 – November 2023
Visiting Researcher, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore

| October 2020 – September 2026
PhD Researcher – International Security, at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Belgium

| December 2018 – June 2019
Trainee – Political Affairs, European Union Delegation to Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

| September 2017 – August 2018
Master's Degree in International Public Policy and International Public Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

| May 2017 – July 2017
Intern – Trade Analysis and International Events Organization, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (ICHAM), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

| February 2015 – April 2017
2-Year Master's Degree in Historical Studies, University of Milan, Italy

| September 2011 – Nov 2014
Bachelor's Degree in History, University of Milan, Italy

Publications

  • A Bridge to Nowhere? Giorgia Meloni and her Balancing Act Between the United States and Europe
    | 2026
    Cavasso, Giusy; Figiaconi, Fabio (2026): A Bridge to Nowhere? Giorgia Meloni and her Balancing Act Between the United States and Europe , PRIF Spotlight, 10, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2610