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Melisa Deciancio (born 29 November 1982) is a lecturer in Social Science at the FLACSO, the University of Buenos Aires, the Universidad Del Salvador and the Universidad de la República. Above she is currently the coordinator of the Master in International Relations at the FLACSO/Argentina. Deciancio holds an PhD in Social Sciences, a Master in International Relations and Negotiations and a degree in Political Science. Her works are a central part of Global International Relations (IR) from a Latin American view.

Career
Melisa Deciancio studied Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires from 2001 to 2006.

From 2007 she studied International Relations and Negotiations in a master programme at the FLASCO/Argentina. During this time she got the "Beca Fulbright para Jóvenes Líderes", an award for young leaders, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst UMass-Civic Initiative. This awards purpose is to promote democracy through education. Distinguished scholars can spend a certain time at the UMass Amherst campus to sign up for courses about modern politics and public policy. Above these subject knowledge, students are forwarded in improving their leadership skills and learning about the U.S. culture. Besides students are learning in discussions with community-based, collaborative projects for offering relation to reality alongside classroom readings and lectures. She graduated at the FLASCO in 2010.

After this she worked on her PhD from 2011 with the support of three scholarships. The "Programa de Formación y Capacitación para el Sector Educación" and the "Beca Doctoral Tipo I" from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) were granted in 2011. The CONICET is an Argentine government agency which co-ordinates scientific and technical research. The extensional scholarship "Beca Doctoral Tipo II" was granted three years later in 2014. The last two were destined to carry out doctoral studies and research activities. The broad programme consists of a monthly payment as well as medical assistance and family coverage. In the same year Deciancio won the "ESRC Doctoral Training Center Award". The Economic and Social Research Council (ESCR) is the UK's largest organization for funding research on economic and social issues. The ESCR is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for the purpose of bringing research and innovation to flourish. UK Research and Innovation is a non-departmental public body funded by the UK government. Since 2016 she holds a PhD in Social Sciences from FLASCO as well.

After graduating she starts working as a lecturer for different universities and faculties. She is a research assistant for the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). The CIGI is a Canadian think tank with a global perspective, supported by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, as well as founder Jim Balsillie. They see themselves as a benchmark for influential research and trusted analysis. Research initiatives focus on governance of the global economy, global security and politics. For the purpose of the Global IR project Deciancio is taking research journeys. In 2019 she visited the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.

Research Interest
Deciancio defines her interests as :


 * Intellectual history of the discipline of International Relations (especially in Argentina)
 * Theory of International Relations
 * Multilateralism
 * Global Governance and Regionalism
 * Diplomacy
 * G-20
 * Regional integration

Especially the work on Global International Relations, a project which was defined by Amitav Acharya to break the Western an especially U.S. hegemony in the field of International Relations, is a sharper focus of her work. Acharya has set a framework for working on comparative regionalism more generally and globalized. He has defined six dimensions of a Global IR project. It is 1) founded upon a pluralistic universalism, respecting the diversity in the world, 2) grounded in world history, not just Western history, 3) subsumes existing theories and methods, 4) integrates region and area studies, 5) eschews exceptionalism and 6) recognizes multiple forms of agency like material power or local constructions of global order. His focus is on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. Deciancio however set her focus on the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) region and is therefore part of a Global IR project.

Theses
Accordingly to Acharyas six dimensions Deciancio determines that global governance have been adopted Western norms of order since the end of the Second World War. Parts of this global governance are dysfunctional because of reasons of acceptability of those norms. Especially in Latin America concept of autonomy and self-determination is very important after a long period of colonialism and a struggle for voice. She has started with the critique of the G-20, continued with the history of her home country Argentina and its history of international relations since 1889 , to actually examining the shape of global governance from Latin America.

Deciancio clarified that Latin American states became part of international relations not because of their own initiative, but by its history of colonialism and foreign intervention. Afterwards the protection of decolonisation, non-intervention and respect for international law, especially the full control of territory, was the incitement of joining international treaties. First works of local scholars were mainly based on nationalist analysis with a focus on interdependence towards U.S. IR theories like Classical Realism. At large Latin American commitment to global governance was shaped by a defensive legalist approach rather than a proactive political stance.

The area of tension between dependency and development and the significance of increasing exports defined Latin American foreign affairs for a long period. The region thereby became a political project by balance external influences as a part of the Global South in the periphery of the United States of America. By formulating own concepts and conceptual frameworks of IR theory and together with other particular regions and scholars like Acharya, the Latin American experiment can raise legitimacy of global governance and emerge general application and relevance. In all parts of the world significant global echos can be found and countries of the Global South does not necessary need to be just in the role of passive receivers.

Altogether Deciancio makes clear that in a multipolar world Latin American voices should be included in IR theory as well. Above the demands for national autonomy and in sharp contrast to the era of liberal global governance, this will have influence on the normative basis of global governance.

Publications (selection)

 * Globalizing Global Governance: Peripheral Thoughts from Latin America, in: Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with Diana Tussie, Apr 2019
 * La Economía Política Internacional en el campo de las Relaciones Internacionales argentinas, in: Desafíos, 30(2), 15-42, http://dx.doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.6106, Jun 2018
 * Region building, autonomy and regionalism in South America, with Pia Riggirozzi, in: Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones (Ed.): Handbook of the Geographies of Regions, 479-488, Jan 2018
 * The Construction of the Argentinian International Relations (IR) Field: Contributions from Geopolitics, in: Journal of International Relations, Strategy and Security, Jul 2017
 * La Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en la historia del campo de las Relaciones Internacionales argentinas, Historia del Derecho N° 52, May 2017
 * The Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires in the history of the field of Argentine International Relations, in: Journal of the History of Law, No. 52, Dec 2016
 * The internationalization of the theory of International Relations in Argentina: theoretical hybrids and their classification, in: Working Papers, UNSAM, Vol. 11, No. 18, with María Cecilia Míguez, 2016
 * El regionalismo latinoamericano en la agenda de la teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales, Iberoamericana 16(63), Nov 2016
 * International Relations from the South: A Regional Research Agenda for Global IR, in Presidential Issue on “Global IR and Regional Worlds” edited by Amitav Acharya, Pinar Bilgin and L.H.M. Ling in: International Studies Review 18(1), 106–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viv020, Mar 2016
 * Historia de la construcción del campo de las Relaciones Internacionales en la Argentina, PhD-Thesis, Mar 2016
 * Regional leadership through global channels: autonomy, diversification and acceptance, in: Cintia Quiliconi, Stephen Kingah, Mills Soko (Ed.): BRICS Leadership at the regional and global level: Disposition, capacity and legitimacy in a multipolar era, Springer, Jan 2015
 * Cruzando el Puente: El Pensar y el Hacer en América Latina, with Diana Tussie, FLACSO, Jan 2010