Project Team

Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria (RSA)

Giulia Piccolino, University of Pretoria (RSA)

Junior Researchers: Sonja Theron, Stephanie Minou, Edgar Cizero Ntasano , JJ Miranda

Relevant expertise:

Lorenzo Fioramonti is Jean Monnet Chair in Regional Integration and Governance Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social Investment of the University of Heidelberg and at the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and Associate Fellow at the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies (Belgium). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and European Politics and has published over 40 scientific articles on European Union’s governance and foreign policy, African governance, development policies and social progress indicators in international journals such as Development in Practice, Development Dialogue, European Foreign Affairs Review, Third World Quarterly, The Journal of Civil Society, The International Spectator, African and Asian Studies.

Selected Publications:

• Fioramonti, L. (2012) Regions and Crises: New Challenges for Contemporary Regionalism (New York: Palgrave).
• Fioramonti, L. (2012) Regionalism in a Changing World: Comparative Perspectives in the New Global order (New York: Routledge).
• Fioramonti, L. (2010) European Union Democracy Aid: Supporting civil society in post-apartheid South Africa (New York: Routledge).
• Fioramonti, L. Schoeman, M and Olivier, G. (2012) The EU and Multilateral Crisis Management: Assessing Cooperation and Coordin ation with the UN, Mercury Epaper no 19, available online: mercury
• Lucarelli, S. and Fioramonti, L. (2009) External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor (New York: Routledge).
• Heinrich, V. F. and Fioramonti, L. (2007) Global Survey of the State of Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives (Bloomfield: Kumarian Press).