Nicola Chelotti

Dr. Nicola Chelotti serves as Senior Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University's London campus, specializing in EU foreign policy formulation and negotiation dynamics. His research examines how states and international actors establish rules through informal diplomatic practices, with particular focus on the European Union's decision-making processes.

His research interests center on EU foreign policy negotiation tactics, diplomatic socialization, and European Parliament influence. Using original empirical data including 138 questionnaires and 37 interviews with EU national negotiators, he investigates how individual diplomats shape national positions within the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy framework. His work reveals significant autonomy of individual negotiators while highlighting challenges in producing collectively legitimized policies.

His major publications include the 2016 monograph The Formulation of EU Foreign Policy: Socialization, negotiations and disaggregation of the state (Routledge) and the 2024 co-edited volume The European Parliament in the Contested Union: Power and Influence Post-Lisbon (Routledge). His recent scholarship analyzes Brexit's institutional consequences, EU economic governance reforms, and transgovernmental network effects on foreign policy.

Key scientific contributions include:

• Developing the 'disaggregation of the state' framework for understanding EU foreign policy formulation
• Documenting negotiator autonomy in CFSP/CSDP committees
• Mapping European Parliament's conditional influence post-Lisbon
• Identifying socialization effects in transnational diplomatic communities

Dr. Chelotti teaches extensively on European Union politics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, covering EU internal dynamics and external relations. His methodological approach combines quantitative survey data with qualitative interview analysis to examine diplomatic practices within international organizations.