ECFR Alumni · pan-European Fellow
Ethnic conflicts, international relations and strategic studies, post-conflict state structures, the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Italian, English, Spanish, intermediate Serb-Croatian, and basic Arabic
Angelica Vascotto was a pan-European Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She was based in ECFR’s Rome office, where worked on security, the role of technology in international relations, European Union enlargement, and the Balkans.
Prior to joining ECFR Vascotto worked as an analyst and researcher in both the NGO and private sector, including Horizon Intelligence, Search for Common Ground, the Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights (Osijek), and NATO Rapid Deployable Corps, Italy. She is also a contributor at the European desk of Geopolitica.info. Vascotto has published various articles on the political context of the Balkans and other regional actors, most recently for the Italian Parliamentary Observatory of International Politics, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. She also taught international relations at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and now she is now postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua.
Vascotto holds a BA in linguistic sciences for international relations from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, an MA in conflict resolution in divided societies from Kings College London, and a Phd in institutions and policies from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the University of Sarajevo.
Mass protests are destabilising Aleksandar Vucic’s rule and his “à la carte” foreign policy positioning. As Serbia’s president faces his toughest challenge yet, the EU should seize the moment to support democratic change and regional stability
Serbia is rapidly veering off its course for accession. Last month’s potentially fraudulent general election and Belgrade’s increasing distance from EU foreign policy should worry those in Brussels