Raff Pantucci (Guest)

Raffaello Pantucci graduated from the University of Manchester in 2003 where he indulged in a BA in literature. He subsequently went to work in Washington at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) where he served first as research assistant to the Executive Vice President and then as a research associate in the Europe Program, concentrating on transatlantic and European political and military affairs. While at CSIS he worked and contributed to a number of reports including "Test of Will, Tests of Efficacy" (May 2005, CSIS Press: Washington, DC) and "Trusted Partners: Technology Transfers in the U.S.-UK Defense Relationship" (May 2006, CSIS Press: Washington, DC). He returned to the UK in 2006 and started working at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) where he worked first for the Director of Studies, and then as a research associate in the Transnational Threats and Political Risk program, contributing to the Institute's work on European security and terrorism and radicalization. During this period he also completed an MA in War Studies at King's College, London. He is currently a Consulting Research Associate at the IISS. In 2009 he was awarded a European Commission Science and Technology Fellowship Programme China grant which means he will be based primarily in China until 2011.

His writing has appeared in newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, European Voice, Guardian, Moscow Times, and magazines like the New Statesman, HSToday (an American magazine dealing with homeland security issues) and Safety & Security International. He has also been published in academic outlets like SAIS Review, Perspectives on Terrorism, Survival, Europe's World and writes regularly for the Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Monitor.