Silvia D'Amato
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. S. D'Amato
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- s.damato@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8962-5987
Dr. Silvia D’Amato is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the research groups Terrorism and Political Violence and War, Peace and Justice. Silvia is also Secretary General of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS).
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Research Output
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Transnational Terrorism as a Threat: Cross-Border Threats -
Transnational counterterrorism assemblages: the case of preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali -
Security in Transnational Spaces: Legal and Political Perspectives across Europe -
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis
Research Project
PhD candidates
Dr. Silvia D’Amato is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the research groups Terrorism and Political Violence and War, Peace and Justice. Prior to joining Leiden University, she was Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute as well as Adjunct Professor and interim Academic Coordinator for the James Madison University MA EUPS Programme in Florence. She holds a Ph.D. (cum laude) in Political Science from the Scuola Normale Superiore and she has been Post-Doctoral fellow within the H2020 project RESPOND at University of Florence. Her research interests include terrorism and counterterrorism, international politics, military interventions and comparative counterterrorism strategies. She is the author of the book Cultures of Counterterrorism: the French and Italian response to terrorism after 9/11, Routledge.
Silvia is also Secretary General of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS).
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Assistant professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- War, Peace and Justice
- Wright J. & D'Amato S. (2024), Transnational Terrorism as a Threat. In: Balomenos K.P. Fytopoulos A. Pardalos P.M. (Ed.), Handbook for Management of Threats: Springer. 193–208.
- D'Amato S. & Baldaro E. (2023), Transnational counterterrorism assemblages: the case of preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali, Territory, Politics, Governance : .
- D'Amato S., Dian M. & Russo A. (2023), International relations and area studies: debates, methodologies and insights from different world regions. Contributions to International Relations. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
- Andersin E.M.A. & D'Amato S. , Security tensions: national and international dilemmas in the relationship between law and security. Leiden security and global affairs blog (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- D'Amato S. & Sachoulidou A. (Eds.) (2023), Security in transnational spaces: legal and political perspectives across Europe: Routledge.
- D'Amato S. (2023), Italy in the Sahel: national priorities and European policies (Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)). [other].
- D’Amato S. & Omenma T (2022), Changing threats and challenges in international relations: debating (in)securities and ways to manage them. In: Gill M. (Ed.) The handbook of security. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 101-122.
- D'Amato S. & Baldaro B. (2022), Counter-terrorism in the Sahel: increased instability and political tensions (International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)). [other].
- D'Amato S., Dian M. & Russo A. (2022), Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between international relations and area studies in the study of politics, security and conflicts, Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica : .
- D'Amato S., A widening rift between Europe and the Sahel. Political Violence at a Glance. [blog entry].
- D'Amato S. (2022), Nella rete di Bruxelles?: Il patchwork del controterrorismo europeo nel Sahel e la governance della cooperazione di sicurezza. In: Baldaro E. & Raineri L. (Eds.), Jihad in Africa: Terrorismo e controterrorismo nel Sahel: Il Mulino.
- D’Amato S. & Terlizzi A. (2022), Strategic European counterterrorism?: An empirical analysis, European Security : 1-18.
- D'Amato S. & Sachoulidou A. (2021), European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: Threats, strategies and actors under the microscope, Journal of Contemporary European Studies : 1-8.
- D'Amato S. (2021), Patchwork of counterterrorism: analyzing European types of cooperation in Sahel, International Studies Review : .
- D'Amato S. & Baldaro E. (30 November 2020), Jihadi paranoia: why we (still) need to rethink the debate on terrorism and political violence (Open Democracy). [web article].
- D'Amato S. & Giuliani G.A. (2020), When opposites attract? : the relationship between foreign policy and the migration-terrorism nexus in the French radical right and radical left discourse (European University Institute). [other].
- D'Amato S. (2019), Cultures of Counterterrorism: French and Italian approaches to terrorism after 9/11: Routledge .
- D’Amato Silvia (2019), Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation, European Journal of Criminology 16(3): 332-350.
- D'Amato S., Baldaro E. & Giurati T. (2019), The CorsAfrique: The Corsican milieu in Africa, between business and raison d’Etat, European Review of Organized Crime 5(1): 36-59.
- D’Amato Silvia & Lavizzari Anna (2019), The Migration Triangle: Narratives, Justice and the Politics of Migration in France, International Spectator 54(3): 37-53.
- D’Amato Silvia & Lucarelli Sonia (2019), Talking Migration: Narratives of Migration and Justice Claims in the European Migration System of Governance, International Spectator 54(3): 1-17.
- Federico V., D’Amato S., Terlizzi A. & Pannia P. (13 July 2018), First Results : politicization and a complex, fragmented legal milieu in RESPOND countries. Responders: Uppsala Universitet. [blog entry].
- Coticchia Fabrizio & D’Amato Silvia (2018), Can you hear me Major Tom? News, narratives and contemporary military operations: the case of the Italian mission in Afghanistan, European Security 27(2): 224-244.
- D’Amato S., Pannia P. & Federico V. (2018), National Country Report: Italy.
- D’Amato Silvia (2018), From BR to ISIS. The Italian domestic and international response to terrorism, European Politics and Society 19(4): 416-434.
- D’Amato S., Pannia P., Terlizzi A. & Federico V. (2018), Comparative Report: Legal and Policy Framework of Migration Governance.
- D’Amato S., Terlizzi A. & Federico V. (2018), Comparative Dataset on Migration (data file and codebook). [dataset].
- D’Amato Silvia (2017), Terrorists going transnational: rethinking the role of states in the case of AQIM and Boko Haram, Critical Studies on Terrorism 11(1): 151-172.
- D'Amato S., Terrorismo, terroristi: chi, cosa, perché. Atlas: Vita activa. [blog entry].
- D’Amato Silvia & Del Panta Gianni (2017), Does rentierism have a conditional effect on violence? Regime oil dependency and civil war in Algeria, Extractive Industries and Society 4(2): 361-370.
- D'Amato S. & Baldaro E. (2015), L’islamazzazione dell'(in)sicurezza nazionale in francia, Limes 11: 207-217.