Federico is an employee at the Department of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a scholar with a strong background in international relations and political science. He studied Political Science and International Relations at Sapienza University of Rome and pursued studies in Conflict Management at Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin.

Before transitioning to academia, Federico built a career in peacebuilding and foreign policy consulting, focusing on mediation and negotiation processes, particularly in Eastern Europe. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, where he focused on the role of autocratic states within the normative framework of the liberal international order. His work explores the intersection of autocracy, governance, liberal values, and international diplomacy, complemented by a deep interest in computational methods and quantitative research.

Research interests:

• Autocracies
• Quantitative methods
• Governance and International Organizations
• Liberal international order
• International political theory

Papers

• Jihyeon Bae, Federico Salvati (2026): United Nations Discourse on Liberalism across Regime Types. Global Studies Quarterly, 6(1), ksag001.

• Andrea Knapp, Valerio Vignoli, Federico Salvati, Fabio Maina (2026): The Alliance Is Talking: Introducing the NATO Secretary General Document (NATO-SGD) Corpus. International Interactions, 1-21.

• Federico Salvati (2025): Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order. Review of International Studies, 1–21.

• Federico Salvati (2025): The Rhetoric of Armed Intervention: Social Learning, Semantic Theory and Non-Deterministic Norm-Setting in the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies, 77(3), 365–388.

• Federico Salvati (2015): Gestione delle risorse idriche in Azerbaijan: il Caso del fiume Kura-Araks. Gazzetta Ambiente N. 4 2015 (ISSN 1123-5489)

Chapters

• Federico Salvati (2024): Power asymmetries and integration process: challenges ahead for the EAEU, in: Alexander Libman and Evgeny Vinokurov (eds.) The Elgar Companion to the Eurasian Economic Union. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 208-226.

• Federico Salvati (2015): Conflict Structuralization and Post-Conflict Society Deterioration: the Case of the South Caucasus, in: Blanka Bellak, Jaba Devdariani, Benedikt Harzl, Lara Spieker (eds.) Governance in Conflict: Selected Cases in Europe and Beyond. Vienna: LIT.