Sono professoressa associata di Scienza politica e relazioni internazionali all’Università Orientale di Napoli.
Tra il 2020-2023 ho lavorato per il World Food Programme delle Nazioni Unite su conflitti e insicurezza alimentare in Nord Africa, Medio Oriente, Sahel, Ucraina, e in precedenza ho svolto incarichi presso il Ministero degli Esteri italiano (2012-2013), e think tanks in Europa (ISPI, CEPS, SWP) e Stati Uniti (The Brookings institution, Transatlantic Academy).

Le mie aree di interesse si concentrano sulla natura dello Stato, sulle concezioni di cittadinanza e di democrazia, con un focus particolare sul Medio Oriente e Nord Africa, sulle relazioni tra stato e sicurezza; sulla sicurezza regionale in generale e sulla geopolitica del Medio Oriente e Nord Africa in particolare; sulla politica estera e di sicurezza europea.

Pubblicazioni recenti: Hybrid Governance in the Middle East and Africa, with Abel Polese (eds.), Routledge 2019; Rethinking statehood in the Middle East and North Africa. Security, sovereignty and political orders, with Abel Polese (eds.), Routledge 2018; Limited statehood in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Citizenship, economy, security, Palgrave 2018; Threat perceptions and the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy since 9/11, Aracne 2012. Ha pubblicato su Third World Quarterly, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Mediterranean Politics, Italian Review of Political Science (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica), European Security, e altre e collabora con Reset e Aspenia online.Formazione
Novembre 2008: Dottorato in SCIENZA POLITICA, Federico II, Napoli. Titolo tesi: European policymakers’ threat perceptions with regard to the MENA region since 9/11. Tutors: Mauro Calise, Filippo Andreatta

Master of Arts in Near and Middle Eastern Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, September 2001 – September 2002
Thesis: The logic behind WMD proliferation in the Middle East. Tutor: Charles Tripp

Settembre 2001: Laurea (vecchio ordinamento) in Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche,Università di Bologna (in Forlì). 110 cum laude.

Posizioni accademiche:
da settembre 2019: Professore Associato di Scienza Politica
settembre 2016-2019: RTD B
Settembre 2012-2016: RTD A

Corsi insegnati
2018-2020: Governance regionale e globale, 48 ore, corso di laurea magistrale, Università L'Orientale
2016-2020: Teoria delle Relazioni internazionali, 48 ore, corso di laurea triennale, Università L'Orientale
2014-2016: Scienza Politica, 60 ore, corso di laurea triennale, Università L'Orientale

Fellowships vinte:
Gennaio-Dicembre 2011: Brookings Fellowship (Consiglio per le Relazioni Italia-Stati Uniti, Roma)
Gennaio 2006-Gennaio 2008: Two Year European Foreign and Security Studies Policy Program Fellowship (Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin; Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany; Riksbanken Jubieleumsfond, Stockholm)
Settembre 2004-Luglio 2005: Marie Curie pre-doctoral Fellowship at University of Birmingham (European Commission)

Progetti vinti e coordinati:
2016-2019: MIUR_Scientific Independence of Young Researchers (SIR): Streetpol: Participatory challenges from Tunisia to Oman. Entità finanziamento: 347,000 euro.
2013-2016Compagnia di San Paolo, Volkswagen Stiftung and Riskbanken Jubileumsfond, all'interno del Programma ‘Europe and Global Challenges’. EUSPRING The Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Awakening: challenges to US and EU foreign policies” Entità finanziamento: 500,000 euro.
2008-2009: FORITA: Italian Foreign Policy Dialogue finanziato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri

MEMBRO DI
Comitato scientifico Istituto Cattaneo; comitato scientifico di "Politica in Italia", comitato scientifico Osservatore pour la paix et la transition en Tunisie.
Membro Associazione Italiana Scienza Politica (SISP), SGRI (Standing Group Relazioni Internazionali).

PUBBLICAZIONI
BOOKS

2020
Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa, with Abel Polese and Robert Kevlihan (eds.), Routledge. (October 2020). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429504570

2019
With Abel Polese (Eds.), Rethinking statehood in the Middle East and North Africa. Security, sovereignty and new political orders. Routledge, pp. 234.

2018
Limited statehood in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Citizenship, economy, security, Palgrave.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2022
With Irene Costantini, “Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Syria and Libya”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 43, n.1

2021
With Irene Costantini, “Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations”, Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2021

With Giulia Cimini, “Applying Principal-Agent Theory to Security Force Assistance: the atypical case of post-2015 Tunisia”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2021, vol. 15, n.5

2020
“Italian post-2011 foreign policy in the Mediterranean caught between status and fear: the case of Libya”, Italian Political Science, 2020, n. 15, vol. 1.

2019

“The State of Dis-Union: the EU and the MENA region since 2011”, ORIENT, German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, October 2019.


“The politics of security reform in post-2011 Tunisia: assessing the role of exogenous shocks, domestic policy entrepreneurs and external actors”, with Giulia Cimini, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 55, n.1, 2019, pp. 225-241. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2018.1538971

“Intended and unintended consequences of security assistance in post-2011 Tunisia”, with Giulia Cimini, Contemporary Arab Affairs, vol. 12, n.1, 2019, pp. 91-106. DOI: 10.1525/caa.2019.121006


2018
“Security Assistance in a Post-Interventionist Era: the impact on hybrid political orders in Tunisia and Lebanon”, with Simone Tholens, Small Wars and Insurgencies, May 2018. DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2018.1456815

“Limited statehood and its security implications on the fragmentation of political orders in the Middle East and North Africa”, with Abel Polese, Small Wars and Insurgencies, May 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2018.1456815

2017
“A New Regional Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa: Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited”, The International Spectator, November 2017. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2017.1371487

“Between hierarchy and heterarchy: Post Arab uprisings’ civil-military relations and the Arab state” with Francesco N. Moro, Mediterranean Politics, October 2017.

2015
“Oltre la transitologia e la post-democratizzazione: Egitto e Tunisia a confronto attraverso le lenti della partecipazione politica”, in Ruth Hanau Santini (ed.), Stato e società in Egitto e Tunisia. Involuzioni ed evoluzioni, Afriche e Orienti, 1-2, 2015.

2012
Transatlantic Democracy promotion and the Arab Spring, with Oz Hassan, The International Spectator, vol. 47, n.3, pp.65-82.

The Arab Spring and Euro-paralysis in the Levant and in the Gulf, Swiss Political Science Review, vol. 18, n.1, pp.120-123.

2010
“European Union discourses and practices on the Iranian nuclear programme”, European Security, vol. 19, n.3, pp. 467-489.


BOOK CHAPTERS & NON-PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

2022

“Changing security dynamics in Tunisia: reconsidering the battle for Ben Gardane”, in Mohamed Zayani, ed., 2021, Rethinking Tunisia after the Arab Awakening.

2020
“The only game left in town: Tunisia Ennahda’s strategic weakness”, in: The Tunisian exception. Profile of a unique political laboratory, edited by Federica Zoja, ResetDOC, October 2020, pp. 37-45.

2019
“Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 Tunisia”, with Stefano Pontiggia, in Polese, A., A. Russo and F. Strazzari (eds.), Governance beyond the law. The immoral, the illegal, the criminal, Palgrave, April 2019.

“Saudi Arabia’s regional space-shaping: making or unmaking a region?”, with Irene Costantini, in: Serena Giusti and Irina Mirkina (Eds.), The EU in a Trans-European space. External relations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. February 2019, Palgrave

2018

“The EU and post-Arab Uprisings’ citizenship: a fuzzy model or contrasting ideologies?”, in Mejier, R. and N. Butenschon (eds.), The Middle East in transition: the centrality of citizenship, Edward Elgar.

“Il 2011 e il re-balancing del Golfo arabo: trasformazioni geopolitiche della regione del Medio Oriente e Nord Africa”, Civiltà del Mediterraneo, numero monografico 2018.

2017
“Con Egitto e Tunisia Ryad si toglie la maschera”, Limes, 5th April, 2017.

2014
“Interregionalism: a Security Studies perspective”, with Sonia Lucarelli and Marco Pinfari, in: Francis Baert, Tiziana Scaramagli and Fredrik Soderbaum (eds.), Intersecting Interregionalism, Springer.

2013
“The EU’s democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa: compromising with security concerns?”, in Sonia Lucarelli, Luk van Langenhove and Jan Wouters (eds.), The EU and Multilateral Security Governance, Routledge, pp. 123-140.