CURRICULUM VITAE
Laura Guazzone
Senior Research Fellow		  

Field of research
Mediterranean and Middle East
Laura Guazzone is Associate Professor of History of the Contemporary Arab World at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, and Senior Research Fellow of the International Affairs Institute (IAI). Trained as Arabist and expert of regional security, her main research interests are the comparative politics and international relations of the North Africa and Middle East countries. She has directed several IAI projects, among which: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Research Project; The Political Role of Islamist Movements in Contemporary Arab World Project; The Middle East in Global Change Project. She is member of the editorial board of the International Spectator and of the international scientific board of Maghreb-Mashrek
Publications
Her recent publications include:
(ed.), La questione della democrazia nel mondo arabo. Stati, società e conflitti, Monza, Polimetrica, 2004 (with Federica Bicchi and Daniela Pioppi); "Democratization in the Arab World Revisited", The International Spectator, n. 4, 2004 (with Daniela Pioppi); "Democracy in the Arab countries and the West", Mediterranean Politics, vol. 9, n. 1, Spring 2004 (with Roberto Aliboni); "European Security Policies in the Mediterranean: From Comprehensive to neo-hard?", in B. Huldt, M.Engman, E. Davidson (eds.), Euro-Mediterranean Security and the Barcelona Process, Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm, 2002, pp. 237-254 (with Federica Bicchi); "Il dibattito occidentale sulla democrazia nel mondo arabo: hic sunt leones?", Afriche e Orienti, anno IV, n. 4, 2002; "Tools for a Conflict Prevention System for the Euro-Mediterranean Area", in Roberto Aliboni, Laura Guazzone, Daniela Pioppi, Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in the Euro-Mediterrane Area" (Quaderni IAI. English Series, n. 2, dicembre 2001, pp. 20-42); (ed.), The Middle East in Global Change. The Politics and Economics of Interdependence versus Fragmentation, Macmillan-St. Martin's Press, Basingstoke-New York, 1997; (ed.), The Islamist Dilemma: The Political Role of the Islamist Movements in the Contemporary Arab World, London, Ithaca Press, 1995.
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