Fabrizio Tassinari is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His present research focuses on issues surrounding European security and integration, with a main emphasis on the politics of the wider EU neighborhood: including the Balkans, Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Russia, and the Mediterranean (Tunisia), as well as related EU policy-frameworks (e.g. enlargement, Neighborhood Policy), the role of NATO and of the United States.For more information please visit: