Dr ANDREA TETI
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence (IDAV) profile
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Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Aberdeen
Edward Wright Building
Dunbar Street
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
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Research Interests
- Democracy and democracy-promotion: especially EU and UK democracy assistance towards Egypt
- Political Theory: Foucault, Deleuze, Debord, Gramsci, Constructivism
- Middle Eastern Politics, particularly Egypt and Israel/Palestine
- Italian Politics
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Current Research
My primary area of research is the politics of democracy-promotion in the Middle East. Here, I'm interested in the relationship between how knowledge is produced, translated into policy, applied, and then its results fed back into the production of 'knowledge'. This is also the core focus of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence project, of which I am co-director. I have a particular interest in labour movements and civil society groups in the Middle East, as well as political parties and elections.
With Gennaro Gervasio, I am also looking at the authoritarian practices of the Egyptian state, in particular the range of techniques being used to empty democratic commitments of any substance.
Finally, I also work on the archaeology and geneaology of Constructivism in IR with Nikola Hynek, focusing on the way critical perspectives in IR are 'normalised', and the implications of this process for knowledge production in the academic field of International Relations.
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Research Grants
Carnegie Trust: "Paradoxes of Western Democracy-promotion in the Middle East: Conceptions of Democracy in Donors and Recipients"
University of Aberdeen, College of Arts & Social Science (RPAS), Co-Director Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence programme
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Teaching Responsibilities
I teach various courses on IR theory and methods, International Security, and Middle East politics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
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External Responsibilities
1998+ Fellow, British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES)
1999+ British International Studies Association (BISA)
2002+ Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medio Oriente (SeSaMO)
2008+ Fellow, Plymouth International Studies Centre (PISC)
2008 Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin (Italy)
2008-09 Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Political Science, University of Salerno (Italy)
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Admin Responsibilities
- Co-ordinator, International (non-EU) Exchanges
- Adviser, International (non-EU) Exchange Students
- School Teaching & Learning Committee
- Dissertation Adviser (IR)
- Co-ordinator, Middle Eastern Politics
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Areas of Supervision
Political / IR Theory (particularly Foucault, Deleuze, Debord and Gramsci)
Democracy & Democratization (especially UK, EU, US and INGO programmes)
Middle Eastern politics (e.g. international relations of the Middle East, impact of globalisation, political & economic liberalisation, democratisation, foreign policies of major powers towards the region, etc.)
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Media activity
Andrea has appeared on several national and international media commenting on the 'Arab Uprisings' in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, and Libya, and on international reactions, including appearances on Al-Jazeera English's Inside Story, the BBC, ITV, Affari Italiani, Australia's SBS, France24, and Radio Pacifica's Radio Intifada. He is a regular contributor to OpenDemocracy, where he writes about Egyptian and Italian politics.
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