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Diplomatic Outreach datasets
The Diplomatic Outreach datasets track the bilateral diplomatic visits between countries, providing information on the direction of such visits, the level or seniority of the participants, and their identity.
Italy
This dataset includes information for the visits involving Italian Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs in 2000-2023. Other datasets track more in detail:
Cite as: Corda, T., and Casiraghi, M. (2025). The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 55(3), 223-237, doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2024.30. The full dataset is freely downloadable from Harvard Dataverse at: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CY7Y8Z. Other Italy-focused datasets
• the visits of the Italian Ministers of Foreign Affairs 2000-2010. This dataset was developed by Tiziana Corda with Sofia Barbieri, Robin Bezzina, Matteo Carosotti, Marco Cavallero, Eva Chaffer, Sofia Ciccarelli, Elena De Paoli, Mattia Donati, Matteo Pandiani, Giulia Robecchi, and Sofia Vicentini.
Cite as: Corda, T., Barbieri, S., Bezzina, R., Carosotti, M., Cavallero, M., Chaffer, E., Ciccarelli, S., De Paoli, E., Donati, M., Pandiani, M., Robecchi, G., and Vicentini, S. (2023). “Italy’s Diplomatic Outreach (Ministers of Foreign Affairs 2000-2010)”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A6GFZT, Harvard Dataverse.
• the visits of the Italian Ministers of Defence 2011-2022. This dataset was developed by Tiziana Corda with Valeria Bellotti, Alberto Brusadelli, Yiwei Gao, Andrea Panza, and Andrea Zanoni.
Cite as: Corda, T., Bellotti, V., Brusadelli, A., Gao, Y., Panza, A., and Zanoni, A. (2023). “Italy’s Diplomatic Outreach (Ministers of Defence)”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V562U3, Harvard Dataverse.
Africa
This dataset includes information for the visits involving the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of selected African countries in 2010-2022.
Cite as: Burman Roy, S., Rotella, S., Ballini, C., Bardazzi, M., Bosio, F., Damiani, U., Della Gatta, G.M., Klier, N.S., Manfredini, F., Pesci, S., Pirrello, A., Podano, F., and Corda, T. (2026). “Africa’s Diplomatic Visits (Ministers of Foreign Affairs)”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QXOUAR, Harvard Dataverse.
Horn of Africa
This dataset tracks the visits involving HoSG, Ministers, Deputies, Military Representatives of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan, respectively for the following timeframes: [DD.MM.YYYY] 01.04.2018–31.12.2020, 01.04.2018–31.12.2020, 01.04.2019–31.12.2020.
Cite as: Corda, T. (2021). “Diplomatic Outreach Dataset v.1.1 (Horn of Africa)”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NFAEVY, Harvard Dataverse.
Russia/Ukraine
The visits of the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine in 2021-2024 (late May). This dataset was developed by Tiziana Corda with Paolo Bassanelli, Pietro Borro, Charles Vallerie Dimitui, Luca Dosso, Fredi Drugman, Kamilla Kizbayeva, Tanan Bayanbat.
Cite as: Corda, T.; Bassanelli, P.; Borro, P.; Dimitui, C.V.; Dosso, L.; Drugman, F.; Kizbayeva, K.; Bayanbat, T. (2024). “Diplomatic Visits of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Ukraine (2021-2024)”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HQS45, Harvard Dataverse.
Other data used in publications
DATA Africa’s trade by extra-regional partner and sector
Cite as: Corda, T. (2025). “Not one and the same. A comparison of China’s, Europe’s, and other extra-regional powers’ economic relations with Africa”, in Y. Li, F. Leandro, J.T. da Silva, C. Rodrigues (eds), Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations: Legacies and the New International Order, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 43, ISBN: 978-981-97-5640-7_43
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