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His research focuses on the politics of democracy promotion in the Euro-Mediterranean region, and several related areas spanning the history and theory of social science. Andrea has published in English, Italian and French on democratization, Egyptian politics, knowledge production in Social Science, and political theory (e.g. Constructivism, Orientalism). His analyses are considered leading exemplars of Constructivism and of Poststructuralism in these areas, as well as innovative uses of Critical Discourse Analysis in scrutinising EU policy towards the Middle East (2012, 2013, 2015) and influential critiques of orthodox models of Democratization in the region. His account of the so-called 'Area Studies Controversy' is widely cited and features on syllabi worldwide. He is also editor of Hidden Geographies: Informal Power in the Greater Middle East (2014) with Gennaro Gervasio and Luca Anceschi. As Consortium Leader for the Arab Transformations Project, he was responsible overseeing the production of 21 Working Papers, 11 Policy Briefs, singly or jointly authoring a majority of these, and co-authoring an additional two Briefs on behalf of the EU (Perceptions of Democracy, Development and the EU, 2014; Social Cohesion, 2016). The Project also produced a data set of public opinion surveys carried out in late 2014, and a longitudinal database including other major surveys and quantitative indicators. His recent publications focus on analysing the results of the Arab Transformations Project and their implications for various subfields: these publications include a book on The Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan (2017), and articles on corruption (2017), on the role of youth in the Uprisings (2018), and on conceptions of democracy in four Arab countries (2019). Forthcoming work for 2019 includes a co-authored book on EU-MENA relations, as well as an article on Foucault in materiali foucaultiani.
Andrea appears regulalry on national and international media, including the BBC, Al-Jazeera English, France24, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's SBS, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America, and Italy's RAI state broadcaster. He is also a regular contributor to OpenDemocracyand The Conversation, and has been featured on various newspapers and magazines including Newsweek, Common Dreams, Middle East Report (US), The Scotsman, Berfrois, Aberdeen Press & Journal, The Big Issue (UK), To Vima (Greece), L’Unità, Il Manifesto,La Repubblica, Il FattoQuotidiano, VICE NewsItalia, Minima et Moralia, Affari Italiani (Italy), Mada Masr, Aswat Masriya/Reuters Egypt, Egypt Independent, The Cairo Post (Egypt), Islamopedia, Qantara, and has been interviewed or cited in several more.
In Aberdeen, Andrea is Board member of the Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law and of the POLITICO doctoral programme, as well as member and formerly Director of both the Centre for Modern Thought and the Centre for Global Security and Governance. He is also currently External Examiner for the BA and MA in Arabic, Islamic, and Middle East Studies (AIMES) at the University of Leeds, and incoming External Examiner for the MA in International Relations of the Middle East and the MA in Conflict, Security and Development at the University of Exeter.
2018: Visiting Fellowship, University of Cagliari and GramsciLab
2018-23: Co-Applicant, EU Marie Curie COFUND, ‘POLITICO’ €2.8m
2018: Faculty of Social and Political Studies mobility award, University of Ghent, €4,500
2017: Global Challenges Research Fund, University of Aberdeen, £5,103
2017: Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, University of Aberdeen, £9,800
2015-16: ACCESS Europe, University of Amsterdam, €5,000
2013-16: Scientific Lead, Arab Transformations Project, Funded under the EU's Framework Programme 7 (€2.49m, SSH-2012, grant number 320214)
2013-14: PI, Carnegie Trust, "Paradoxes of Western Democracy-promotion in the Middle East: Conceptions of Democracy in Donors and Recipients"
2012-13: AHRC, Transition Paradigms and Policy-making, co-PIs Dr. Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London) and Dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon (Amsterdam), £25,575
2011-15: Co-PI, University of Aberdeen, College of Arts & Social Science (RPAS), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence programme
I teach various courses on IR theory and Middle East politics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. I am currently co-ordinator for Middle Eastern Politics (Honours), Global Politics from the Middle East (Honours) and teach on the core courseTheories and Ideologies of Politics and International Relations.
Doctoral Research Supervision
Areas of Supervision:
I am interested in supervising undergraduate or graduate research projects in the following areas:
Middle East 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.)
Political Theory / IR Theory (particularly Foucault, Deleuze, Debord and Gramsci)
Dr Alessandro Rippa (2015, with Martin Mills) Research Fellow, University of Munich, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Colorado (Boulder)
Dr Samantha May (with Martin Mills); Leverhulme Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Egypt’s Second January Uprising
Teti, A., Gervasio, G.
Mediterranean Yearbook, vol. 2011
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
While Rome Was Burning: Berlusconi and the politics of Italy’s patronage
Teti, A.
openDemocracy
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Political Parties and Movements in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Teti, A.
Commissioned by Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale. Milan: Italy: Istituto per gli Studi Politici e Internazionali. 18 pages
Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
The Egyptian Gambit
Teti, A.
openDemocracy
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Cercando un altro Egitto: tra democrazia e contro-rivoluzione (The Search for a New Egypt: Between Democracy and Counter-Revolution)
Teti, A., Gervasio, G.
Afriche e Orienti, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 130-138
Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
Pane, libertà e dignità: Lezioni dalle rivolte arabe (Bread, Freedom and Dignity: Lessons from the Arab Revolts)
Teti, A.
Lo Straniero: Arte, Cultura, Scienza e Società, vol. 130
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Le nozze della democrazia?: Elezioni ed autoritarismo in Egitto (The Birth of Democracy?: Elections and Authoritarianism in Egypt)
Teti, A., Gervasio, G.
Afriche e Orienti, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 71-76
Contributions to Journals: Articles
The Politics of Fearlessness: Egypt's Second January Uprising
Teti, A.
openDemocracy
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Egypt's Post-democratic Elections: Political Meaning Beyond the Menu of Manipulation
Teti, A., Gervasio, G.
openDemocracy
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
La politica della democratizzazione in Medio oriente ed il feticcio della società civile (The Politics of Democratization in the Middle East and the fetish of civil society)
Teti, A.
La primavera araba. Corrao, F. (ed.). Mondadori
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
Le Bahreïn entre rocher et pétrole (Bahrain between a rock and oil)
Société civile, démocratie libérale, et la démarche du paradigme de la ‘démocratisation’ (Civil Society, liberal democracy and the politics of the democratisation paradigm)
Teti, A.
L’essor de la Société Civile dans le Monde Musulman. Luizard, P., Bozzo, A. (eds.). La Découverte
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
The Politics of Democracy in the Middle East
Teti, A.
Mediterranean Politics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 459-462
Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge
Teti, A.
Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice. Firat, B. O., Sarah De Mul, , van Wichelen, S. (eds.). 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-101, 21 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
Non si può parlare per sempre: Obama e la questione palestinese (Talk is gettin cheaper: Obama and the Palestinian Question)
Teti, A.
Nuvole, vol. 39, pp. 57-61
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
Sunni Islam and politics
Teti, A., Andrea Mura, A.
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. Haynes, J. (ed.). Routledge
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Political Islam
Teti, A.
Issues in International Relations. Salmon, T., Imber, M. (eds.). 2 edition. Routledge, pp. 218-234, 17 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Democrazia, Transitologia ed Orientalismo: organizzazione del sapere e geografie morali della democratizzazione in Medio Oriente (Democracy, Transitology and Orientalism: organisation of knowledge and moral geographies of democratization in the Middle East)
Teti, A.
Meridione, vol. 14, pp. 19-49
Contributions to Journals: Articles
A Role in Search of a Hero: A Constructivist approach to the evolution of Egyptian foreign policy, 1952-67
Teti, A.
Journal of Mediterranean Studies, vol. 14, no. 1-2, pp. 77-105