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Daniela Pioppi is senior fellow at the Mediterranean and Middle East Programme of the International Affairs Institute (IAI, Rome) and lecturer of contemporary history of Egypt at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Her main research interests are the comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East and North Africa region. Trained as an Arabist and a political scientist (MA Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London), she obtained her PhD at the Political Science Department, University of Pisa.

Publications
Her recent publications include:
Laura Guazzone and Daniela Pioppi, "Globalisation and the Restructuring of State Power in the Arab World", in The International Spectator, Vol. 42, No. 4, December 2007, 535-549 Daniela Pioppi, "The Privatization of Social Services as a Regime Strategy: Islamic Endowments (Awqaf) in Egypt", in Oliver Schlumberger (ed.), Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Non-Democratic Regimes, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007 Daniela Pioppi and Nathalie Tocci, "Il conflitto israelo-palestinese: lo stato impossibile", in L'Italia e la politica internazionale. Edizione 2007, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, p. 203-213 Daniela Pioppi, Nathalie Tocci, Karam Karam, Domestic Politics and Conflict in the Cases of Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, Lisboa, EuroMeSCo, October 2006, 35 p. (EuroMeSCo Research Reports 2005-2006) Daniela Pioppi, Declino e rinascita di un'istituzione islamica : il waqf nell'Egitto contemporaneo, Roma, Nuova cultura, 2006 (La Sapienza-Orientale. Ricerche) Daniela Pioppi, Federica Bicchi and Laura Guazzone (eds.), La democrazia nel mondo arabo. Stati, società e conflitti, Polimetrica, 2004 Laura Guazzone and Daniela Pioppi, "Democratization in the Arab World Revisited", in The International Spectator, Vol. 39, No. 4 October-December 2004, p. 89-100 Daniela Pioppi, "Protagonista o comparsa? Il ruolo dell'Italia nel processo di normalizzazione della Libia", in Afriche e Orienti, [N. speciale su: Quale politica dell'Italia in Africa e nel Mediterraneo], n. 3, 2002.

updated 13/02/2008