Adrià Rivera Escartin
Profesor Lector, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Datos de contacto
Biografía
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.
Formación académica
- (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
Premios
- 2023. Premio extraordinario, doctorado.
- 2021. Premi Manuel Castillo, Universitat de València.
- 2015. Premio extraordinario de fin de estudios, Ciencias Políticas y de la administración, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Investigación
Líneas de investigación
- Política exterior de la UE
- Derechos Humanos y democratización
Clústers de investigación del IBEI
Proyectos de investigación
Publicaciones más destacadas
- 2025.Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition.Mediterranean Politics,1–21Enlace
- 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,Enlace
- 2023.Elite polarization and democratic backsliding in Tunisia: tracing agency-driven mechanisms.Democratization,DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2284873Enlace
- 2022.Harraga and Europe: The emotional geographies of undocumented migrants in Tunisian filmmaking.Political Geography,Volume 94, April 2022, 102580Enlace
- 2021.Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation.Third World Quarterly,DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.2015315Enlace
- 2020.La efectividad de las sanciones, ¿un problema de comunicación?.Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals,Special issue: International sanctions: The “other” effectsEnlace
- 2020.Supporting the Tunisian transition? Analysing (in)consistencies in EU democracy assistance with a tripartite nexus model.Democratization,27:8:1376-1393Enlace
- 2020.Populist challenges to EU foreign policy in the Southern Neighbourhood: an informal and illiberal Europeanisation?.Journal of European Public Policy,DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2020.1712459Enlace