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Adrià Rivera Escartin

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Assistant Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Biography

Adrià Rivera Escartin is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Affiliated Faculty member at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and a MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po Paris, France.

His first research area is comparative politics in the Maghreb, focusing on topics such as (de-)democratization processes and the political effects of energy transitions. Additionally, Adrià's second line of research examines the societal and political reverberations of EU foreign policy in neighbouring countries.

He is a member of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy (Spain) and has participated in several competitive research projects and networks funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Research and the European Commission. His work has been published in journals such as Democratization, Political Geography, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

Background and education

  • (2018-2023) PhD in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • (2015-2017) MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Sciences Po Paris
  • (2013-2014) Erasmus, Sciences Po Paris
  • (2011-2015) BA in Political Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Awards

  • 2023. Extraordinary award, doctorate.
  • 2021. Manuel Castillo Award, Universitat de València.
  • 2015. Extraordinary end of studies award, Political Science and Administration, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Courses

Research

Research interests

  • EU foreign policy
  • Human Rights and democratization

IBEI Research Clusters

Research projects

Selected publications

  • Rivera Escartin, Adrià.2025.Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition.Mediterranean Politics,1–21Link

  • Rivera-Escartin, Adrià; Fernández Fernández, Fátima 

    .    2024.Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood.JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies,LinkLogo open access
  • Rivera Escartin, Adrià.2023.Elite polarization and democratic backsliding in Tunisia: tracing agency-driven mechanisms.Democratization,DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2284873LinkLogo open access

  • Rivera-Escartin, Adrià; Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth

    .    2022.Harraga and Europe: The emotional geographies of undocumented migrants in Tunisian filmmaking.Political Geography,Volume 94, April 2022, 102580LinkLogo open access

  • Rivera-Escartin, Adrià

    .    2021.Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation.Third World Quarterly,DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.2015315Link

  • Rivera-Escartin, Adrià

    .    2020.La efectividad de las sanciones, ¿un problema de comunicación?.Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals,Special issue: International sanctions: The “other” effectsLinkLogo open access

  • Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth; Rivera-Escartin, Adrià

    .    2020.Supporting the Tunisian transition? Analysing (in)consistencies in EU democracy assistance with a tripartite nexus model.Democratization,27:8:1376-1393LinkLogo open access

  • Rivera-Escartin, Adrià

    .    2020.Populist challenges to EU foreign policy in the Southern Neighbourhood: an informal and illiberal Europeanisation?.Journal of European Public Policy,DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2020.1712459Link

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