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Dario Cristiani

Position
Associate fellow
Biography

Dario Cristiani is an Associate fellow within IAI’s "Global actors" programme. He has been the IAI/GMF Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, working on Italian foreign policy, the Mediterranean and Global Politics in close connection with IAI. He is a Political Risk Consultant and a guest lecturer in several institutions in Europe and the Maghreb (Koninklijke Militaire School, Istituto Alti Studi Difesa, Sit Tunis). He has been an adjunct professor at Vesalius College (VUB) in Brussels from 2014 to 2018 and, from 2015, the director of its Executive Training in Global Risk Analysis and Crisis Management, (GRACM). He received his Ph.D. in Middle East & Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London.

Topic

US and the Americas
Mediterranean and Middle East

Expertise

Mediterranean
Transatlantic relations

Publications

Italy’s Limited Engagement in Syria, and How to Boost It

Dario Cristiani
Rome, IAI, July 2025, 6 p.
In: IAI Commentaries 25|41

European Think Tanks Contact Group on Libya

Silvia Colombo
Dario Cristiani
Rome, IAI, July 2023, 22 p.
In: Documenti IAI 23|16

Europe’s Evolving Order and the War in Ukraine

Dario Cristiani
Rome, IAI, April 2023, 18 p.
In: Documenti IAI 23|07
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In the media

Politica Exterior: ORIENTE MEDIO EN EL FIN DEL CONSENSO

Dario Cristiani
Press

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Episode 6: Italy and the Future of European Security

Dario Cristiani
Audio

The German Marshall: Success, With Caveats

Dario Cristiani
Press
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Research

The war against Ukraine and European security

The project examines the implications of the war against Ukraine on the security structure in Europe and the conditions for rebuilding a strategic balance through new deterrence relationships and new…

Transatlantic Security Symposium - 14. ed.

The 14th edition of the Transatlantic Symposium, the annual forum where experts and officials from the US, the EU and other countries discuss the main items in the transatlantic agenda, has focused…

European Think Tanks Contact Group on Libya. Towards a new common European narrative on Libya

The emergence of a National Unity Government (GNU) led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in mid-March 2021 had initially given rise to cautious optimism for the Libyan transition. Yet, many…
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