Staff profile

Dr Luca Anceschi

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 315, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Laurea in Scienze Politiche (L'Orientale), PhD (La Trobe).

Area of study

Asian Studies
International Relations
Politics

Brief Profile

Luca Anceschi’s main research interests include the politics and international relations of Central Asia and the Middle East. His most recent book – Turkmenistan's Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime – is the first book-length analysis of Turkmenistani foreign policy published by a Western scholar. Luca has been recently awarded a DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, to investigate a project focusing on the role of Islam in the relations between two key Gulf States (Saudi Arabia and Iran) and the newly independent states of post-Soviet Central Asia.

Research interests

International Relations

- Islam in International Relations

- Politics and international relations of Middle East and Central Asia

- Politics and International Relations of the Middle East

- Security in Eurasia

Teaching Units

  • POL5QAQ - From Cairo to Kabul: Issues in the International Politics of the Greater Middle East

Recent Publications

Authored Books

  • Anceschi, L. (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy - Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime (Abingdon-New York: Routledge).

Edited Books

  • Anceschi L. & Symons, J. (eds.) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change – The Asia-Pacific Experience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
  • Anceschi L., Camilleri, J.A., Palapathwala, R. & Wicking, A. (eds.) (2011) Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World: Conflict, Dialogue and Transformation (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
  • Anceschi, L., Camilleri, Joseph, A. and Tolosa Jr, B.T. (eds.) (2009) Conflict, Religion, and Culture: Domestic and International Implications for Southeast Asia and Australia (Quezon City: Philippines-Australia Studies Network & Ateneo de Manila University Press).

Journal Articles

  • Anceschi, L. (2010) ‘Integrating Domestic Factors and Foreign Policy Making: The Cases of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan’. Central Asian Survey, 29(2): 143-158.
  • Anceschi, L. (2010) ‘External Conditionality, Domestic Insulation and Energy Security: The International Politics of post-Niyazov Turkmenistan’. China & Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3): 93-114.
  • Anceschi, L., Camilleri, Joseph, A. and Petito, F. (2009) ‘Europe, the United States and the Islamic World: Conceptualising a triangular relationship', International Politics. 46(5): 505-516.
  • Anceschi, L. (2008) ‘Analysing Turkmen Foreign Policy in the Berdymuhammedov Era’. China & Eurasia Forum Quarterly 6(4): 35-48.
  • Anceschi, L. (2005) ‘Asia Centrale post-sovietica: Cosa c’è dopo la pianificazione centralizzata?’ Oriente Moderno 85(2-3): 254-268.

Chapters in Edited Books

  • Anceschi, L. (2012) ‘Energy Governance and Climate Change: Central Asia’s Uneasy Nexus’, in: L. Anceschi & J. Symons(eds.), Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 180-197.
  • Anceschi, L. & Akbarzadeh, S. (2011) ‘Central Asia: Pragmatism in Action’, in: S. Akbarzadeh (ed.), America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), 217-235.
  • Anceschi, L. (2011) ‘Reinforcing Authoritarianism through Media Control: The Case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan’, in E. Freeman & R. Shafer (eds.) After the Czars and Commissars – Journalism in Authoritarian post-Soviet Central Asia (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press), 59-77.
  • Anceschi, L. & Camilleri, J.A. (2009),  'Introduction', in L. Anceschi, J.A. Camilleri, and B.T. Tolosa Jr (eds) Conflict, Religion and Culture: Domestic and International Implications for Southeast Asia and Australia (Quezon City: Philippines-Australia Studies Network & Ateneo de Manila University Press), 7-17.