Role
Caterina Carta is a lecturer in International Relations at the Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance (VUB). Her research interests include foreign policy, cultural and public diplomacy, international organizations, as well as discourse theory and analysis.
Bio
A graduate in Political Science from the University of Catania, she earned a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena, where she also completed postdoctoral work. She then worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Between 2012 and 2017, she worked at the Vesalius College of the VUB, also serving as vice dean of teaching. From 2017 to 2019, she was an associate professor at the Université Laval in Quebec City, where she held the Canada Research Chair in Public Diplomacy. At Vesalius, she directed the MA MADAGG and MAGSS programs and is currently an assistant professor of International Relations at the CSDS of the Brussels School of Governance. Since 2021, she has also been a Professorial Fellow at UNU-CRIS.
His research focuses on cultural and public diplomacy , European Union foreign policy , international organizations, and the analysis of political discourse . He also studies identity construction processes and the role of ideas and representations in international relations.