REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Maracchione, F. (2025). Decentring narratives of (de)globalization and crisis: Uzbekistan’s ‘everyday’ political economy amidst Russia’s war in Ukraine. Globalizations, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2025.2533666.
Maracchione, F. (2025). L’Uzbekistan nella Maggioranza Globale: Protagonista della Ri-globalizzazione? (Uzbekistan in the Global Majority: A protagonist of reglobalisation?). Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2. https://doi.org/10.36253/asiac-3579.
Maracchione, F. & Jardine, B. (2024). ‘Central Asian Studies in the People’s Republic of China: A Structural Topic Model’, Central Asian Survey. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2024.2314083.
Maracchione, F., Sciorati, G. & Combei, C.R. (2024). ‘Changing Images? Italian Twitter Discourse on China and the United States during the First Wave of COVID-19’, The International Spectator. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2023.2299452
Indeo, F. & Maracchione, F. (2024). ‘The Italy-Central Asia 5+1 format in a comparative analysis with China and the US’, Italian Journal of Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus, ASIAC – Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus (SCC), 1(1), 181–200. https://doi.org/10.36253/asiac-2416
Maracchione F. (2023). ‘Multivectoral? A quantitative analysis of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy communication at the United Nations’, Eurasiatica: Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale, Ricerche 2022. http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-667-1/009
Maracchione, F. (2022). ‘Relations between the People’s Republic of China and Uzbekistan in the 21st century: agency and China’s security and economic role in Central Asia’, Oriens.Uz, 2(26). Available here. [Article published in Uzbekistani publication].
Edited chapters
Frappi, C. & Maracchione, F. (2024). Energy geopolitics in Central Asia (La geopolitica delle risorse energetiche in Asia centrale. In: Dian, M. & Diodato, E. (Eds). East Asian Geopolitics (La Geopolitica dell’Asia Orientale). Roma: Carrocci.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Reports
Maracchione, F. (2025). Engaging plural China with industrial cooperation, investment in localised research and specialised diplomatic teams: UK Government’s China Audit. London: Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament. Available here.
Neafie, J., Maracchione, F., Gabdulhakov, R., Sheraliev, K. and Supyaldiyarov, I. (2024). Beyond the Silk Road: Navigating the Complexities of Central Asian Public Opinion on China. Bishkek: Central Asia Barometer. Available here.
Maracchione, F. and Lemon, E. (2023). Chinese-Russian Engagement in Central Asia Amidst the Ukraine Conflict. London: Global Partner Governance. Available on request.
Zhu, A., Jardine, B. and Maracchione, F. (2022). Chinese Academia Marches West: A Structural Topic Model of China’s Knowledge-Production in Central Asian Studies. Washington DC: The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. Available here.
Op-eds
Maracchione, F. ‘The new normal is not deglobalization: it’s reglobalization’. The Diplomat, 28/10/2025. Read here.
Maracchione F. ‘Licorice and leather: Spotting Chinese soft power in rural Uzbekistan’, Eurasianet, 22/03/2023. Read here.
Policy briefs
Maracchione, F. and Sciorati, G. (2024). Tendenze di allargamento nell’Organizzazione di Shanghai per la cooperazione (Enlargement trajectories of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation). Focus China and Indopacific, n. 5, Observatory of International Politics, Parliament of the Italian Republic. Available here. In Italian.
Maracchione, F. (2023). Energy crises as structural limits for political agency in Central Asia (La crisi energetica come limite strutturale all’azione politica delle repubbliche dell’Asia centrale). Energy Security, n. 8, Observatory of International Politics, Parliament of the Italian Republic. Available here. In Italian.
Commentaries and blog posts (selected)
Sciorati, G. and Maracchione, F. (2024). Lessons in public diplomacy from Italy’s COVID-19 response. EUROPP Blog LSE, 21 October. Available here.
Maracchione F. ‘The need for long term and contextualised research on China’s relations with Central Asia’, Global Partners Governance, 16/02/2023. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Social unrest, protests, and violence in Kazakhstan: what are the consequences for Uzbekistan?’, Geopolitica.Info, 10/02/2022. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Samarkand’s spirit: priorities and challenges of Uzbekistan’s Presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’, Geopolitica.Info, 28/11/2021. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. and Edwards, R. ‘Activist coalitions, state-sanctioned forced labour, and top-down reform in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector’, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute Blog, 08/09/2021. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Our Vaccine: The Political Significance of the Uzbek-Chinese Vaccine’, ISPI Commentary, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 29/03/2021. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Kyrgyzstan’s Power Struggle is Far From Over, ISPI Commentary, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 26/06/2020. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Kazakhstan’s Power Struggles in Time of Pandemic: Dariga Nazarbayeva’s Dismissal’, ISPI Commentary, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 12/05/2020. Accessible here.
Maracchione F. ‘Covid-19 and Aid to Central Asia: China Shows Off and the US Hiccups’, ISPI Commentary, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 13/04/2020. Accessible here.
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