Researcher

Areas of research
Democratisation; Foreign policy analysis; Russia's foreign policy in the countries of Central Asia
Central Asia: Geopolitics, Democratisation, Civil Society
Development of Diplomatic Elites; Sociology of Diplomacy; Elite Studies

Contact
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg
Phone: (+49) 40-866077-84

Curriculum vitae
Diana Digol has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Before that she studied at the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, Bologna and the Central European University, Budapest. She has worked in various capacities with the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, the European Commission in Brussels, the United Nations Office in Vienna, the Organization for Security and Co-operation, the World Bank and the National Bank of Moldova.

Languages
English, Russian, Romanian, Italian, German

Projects
Small Players in a Great Game: The Afghanistan Policies of the Central Asian States | ...more

Selected Publications

• Emerging Diplomatic Elites in Post-Communist Europe (link)
• Migration from Moldova: a guide to a labour émigré? Moldoscopie, nr. 3, 2006, State University of Moldova Press