Ruben Zaiotti is the director of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence, a Jean Monnet Chair in Public Diplomacy and Associate professor in the Political Science department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). His main areas of interest are European Union politics, border control and immigration policy, social media and public diplomacy and transatlantic relations. Ruben Zaiotti is the author of the monograph “Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers” with University of Chicago Press and editor of books on language and globalization and on migration policy. He has published articles for Review of International Studies, European Security, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Borderland Studies, International Journal of Refugee Law. You can find his musings about Europe and borders on the blog ‘Schengenalia’ and follow him on twitter @schengenizer. Ruben Zaiotti is also the curator for the recently launched project Schengen Border Art, an online repository of creative performances about European borders.
Research Interests: European Union, European Union-Canada relations, International relations and Foreign Policy, and International security
| Institution: | Dalhousie University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Defence and Security EU Foreign Policy and External Relations EU Policies EU-Canada Relations International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| Research groups: | RG ECSA-C Foreign Policy and Security,RG ECSA-C Migration,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | r.zaiotti@dal.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Italien |
| Publications: | The Digital Diplomacy of International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation in the Global Digital Age, Routledge (co-edited with Corneliu Bjola; forthcoming, September 2020) Security Policy Coordination in North America and the European Union (with Brian Bow), Special Issue of Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2020) Externalizing Migration Management: Europe, North America and the Spread of ‘Remote Control’ Practices, Routledge (edited volume; 2016) “Going Digital: Choices and Challenges For International Organizations”, in Ruben Zaiotti and Coneliu Bjola (ed). The Digital Diplomacy of International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation in the Global Digital Age, Routledge (forthcoming, November 2020; with Coneliu Bjola) “The (un)making of International Organizations’ Digital Reputation: the European Union, the ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Social Media” in Ruben Zaiotti and Corneliu Bjola (ed.) The Digital Diplomacy of International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation in the Global Digital Age, Routledge (forthcoming, November 2020) “Rethinking The Role Of International Organisations in The Digital Age”, Ruben Zaiotti and Coneliu Bjola (ed). International Organizations and Social Media: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation in the Global Digital Age, Routledge (forthcoming, November 2020; with Coneliu Bjola) “Transgovernmental networks and security policy coordination in North America and the European Union: A framework for transatlantic comparative research”. Journal of Transatlic Studies (2020; with Brian Bow) “Border management: the Schengen regime in times of turmoil”, In Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Florian Trauner (eds.). Routledge’s Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research, Routledge (2018) |
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