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Francesca Caruso

Biography

Francesca Caruso was a Researcher within IAI’s Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa Programme and Policy Officer of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN). Her research interests include the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the Mediterranean region, North Africa politics and sub-Saharan peace and security studies – with a particular focus on Central Africa. She works as consultant for the Peace Programme of the Community of Sant’Egidio and she regularly contributes with La Stampa covering sub-Sahara security and political issues.

Publications

Data pubblicazione

The Middle East and North Africa in 2025: The Promise and Perils of a «New» Middle East

Mediterranean Economies 2025
Autori
Andrea Dessì
Francesca Caruso
Details
in Salvatore Capasso and Giovanni Canitano (eds), Mediterranean Economies 2025. The Mediterranean as a Laboratory of Geoeconomics and Global Transformations, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2025, p. 51-55
In: Altri paper e articoli
Data pubblicazione

Oltre il cessate il fuoco: Riflessioni sulle crisi intrecciate di Palestina e Sudan

Oltre il cessate il fuoco: Riflessioni sulle crisi intrecciate di Palestina e Sudan
Autori
Francesca Caruso
Andrea Dessì
Details
in Mediterranean Policy Briefs, No. 3|2026 (marzo 2026), 14 p.
In: Other papers and articles
Data pubblicazione

The Middle East and North Africa in 2024: New Crises, Old Conflicts

Autori
Andrea Dessì
Francesca Caruso
Details
in Salvatore Capasso, Giovanni Canitano (eds), Mediterranean Economies 2024. The New Agenda for the Mediterranean: Perspectives and Challenges, Bologna, Il mulino, 2025, p. 41-82
In: Other papers and articles

Research

Ten years from its outbreak, the Sahel crisis has assumed a new dimension in terms of degeneration of legitimate governance and regional security structures (ECOWAS and African Union), compounded by…
The tensions between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan pertaining the GERD risk undermining the stability of the entire region of the Horn of Africa, which has been already tested by the recent crisis in…