GABRIELE
ABBONDANZA

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza is Senior Lecturer ("Profesor Contratado Doctor") at Comillas Pontifical University (Spain), Researcher in the GEMI Group at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and Associate Fellow at the Italian Institute of International Affairs - IAI (Italy), a global top-20 international relations think tank. He is also Scientific Board Member at the NATO Foundation. He is a former Marie Curie Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid and a former Lecturer at the University of Sydney (Australia). Gabriele specialises in international relations and security studies, with an emphasis on: - the Indo-Pacific - irregular migration governance - middle power and great power theory - national power - Australian, Italian, and Spanish foreign & security policy He has published widely on these issues, including four monographs (most recently with Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge), numerous articles in top-tier journals (Q1 and Q2), as well as many book chapters and policy papers. He has taught more than 25 university courses on international relations, security studies, migration politics, and other related subjects. He often engages with the media and with public institutions - including international organisations, national parliaments, ministries, and diplomatic networks - to support the broader impact of his policy-relevant research. For a full list of his research, teaching, institutional, and media activities, please browse his website www.gabrieleabbondanza.com . He can be contacted at gabbondanza@comillas.edu or gabriabb@ucm.es.