Dr. Giovanna Bono

The Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

Dr Giovanna Bono was a post-doctoral Research Fellow with the ESDP Democracy network, based at the University of Bradford. She is now Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, where her research focuses on European foreign and security policy.

Giovanna was awarded a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK), and holds an MSc from City University in London and a BA (Hons) in International Relations with German from Sussex University (UK).

During 1999-2001 she worked at the WEU Institute for Security Studies in Paris where she contributed to policy-oriented publications, seminars and task forces on European defence and security issues.

Her achievements have included managing a research facility, the European Union Social Science Information Research Facility (EUSSIRF), based at the London School of Economics (London) and at EUI in Florence; undertaking consultancy and research projects for Andersen Consulting, the Open University Business School and the Guardian Newspaper.

Area of specialisation: NATO, ESDP, international relations theory, the foreign policies of Britain, Germany and the United States.

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Publications

(March 2004) Giovanna Bono. The European Convention and Common Foreign and Security Policy: more defence, less scrutiny? Peace Studies Working Paper. No 7. Bradford: Bradford University.

(forthcoming March 2004,) 'La PESC et la PESDC dans la Constitution européenne : évaluation sur la base du projet de la Convention' Annuaire francais de relations internationals

G. Bono with S. Ulriksen (Eds) (forthcoming Autumn 2004). 'The EU's role in crisis management and peace support operations' Special Issue of the International Peacekeeping Journal

(Winter 2004) 'Parliamentary scrutiny of ESDP military operations: evaluating Operation Concordia and Artemis' European Foreign Affairs Review

June 2003. "Operation Concordia: the first steps towards a new EU-NATO strategic relationship?" Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik, June. Go to article.

"The EU Mission's 'Concordia' in Macedonia: an assessment" (available at http://www.weltpolitik.net)

(Hiver 2002-2003) "L'ambiguïté des relations OTAN-PESD : faux débat ou enjeu réel ?" [The ambiguous ESDP-NATO relationship: wrong debate or real challenge?] La revue internationale et stratégique, n° 48, Winter 2002-2003.

(2003) NATO's 'peace-enforcement' tasks and 'policy-communities': 1990-1999. Ashgate Publishing: UK.

(2003) "The Headline Goals: political and institutional consequences" in J. Krause, A. Wenger and L. Watanbe. Unraveling the European Security and Defence Policy Conundrum. Bern: Peter Lang.

(2003) 'NATO's war over Kosovo: the debates, dynamics and consequences' in Michael Davies, Wolfgang Dietrich et al (eds) International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World. New York: M.E. Sharpe.

(December 2002) 'The ESDP in 2003: a peacekeeping and post-reconstruction arm of the Pentagon?" paper given at the Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association held at the London School of Economics.

(July 2002) Democratic accountability of military and police co-operation within the EU. Working Paper Series. PCAF Workshop on Parliamentary Oversight of International Military Cooperation/Institution. Geneva: DCAF.

(March 2002), European Security and Defence Policy: the rise of the military in the EU. Peace Studies, Working Papers. Bradford: Peace Studies Department. (Available at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/peace/pubs/psp4.pdf)

(February 2002), European Security and Defence Policy: theoretical approaches, the Nice Summit and Hot issues, Bradford: Peace Studies Department and Research and Training Network. (Available at http://www.esdpdemocracy.net/word/ESDP&Democracy.pdf)

Forthcoming:
"Democratic accountability of military and police cooperation in the EU" in Hans Born, Heiner Hanggi (eds) Defining the democratic deficit: international security co-operation and the problem of parliamentary accountability. Aldershot: Ashgate.

"The internationalisation of security and the challenges of democratic accountability: the case study of ESDP" in Howard M Hensel et al (Eds) Sovereignty and Globalization: the New Realities of Managing the International System. USA.

Co-editor: special edition of the International Peacekeeping Journal on the EU in peace operations