Andrea Dessì

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Head of the Italy's foreign policy Programme; IAI Commentaries editor
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Algeria
Israel
Middle East
Palestine
US foreign policy
Conflict resolution

Andrea Dessì is Head of IAI's Italy's Foreign Policy Programme, Senior Fellow within IAI’s Mediterranean and Middle East programme and Editorial Director of IAI’s english-language series IAI Commentaries. Andrea is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Strategic Studies Implementation and Research Centre, Başkent University, Ankara. He has worked extensively on US and European foreign policy towards the Middle East with a particular focus on the diplomatic and military history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, US policy towards Israel and Washington’s alliance frameworks in the Middle East. His research interests include security studies, the geopolitics of the Middle East and the intersection between global and regional trends and developments. Andrea holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a thesis on the US-Israel relationship during the 1980s. He has worked with IAI since 2011 and has contributed to a number of EU-funded projects and research tasks (FP7 & H2020).

Algeria: Between Popular Protests, Political Uncertainty and Regional Turmoil

Andrea Dessì, Flavia Fusco
Rome, IAI, March 2020, 6 p.
In: Documenti IAI

Inclusivity and cooperative security over containment and exclusivity

Andrea Dessì
in EUREN Briefs, No. 13 (January 2020)
In: Other papers/articles

Libya Country Report

Andrea Dessì
(with Matteo Capasso, Jędrzej Czerep, Gabriella Sanchez) EU-LISTCO, December 2019, 51 p.
In: Other papers/articles

Europe and Iran in a Fast-Changing Middle East

Andrea Dessì, Vassilis Ntousas,
Brussels, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and Rome, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), June 2019, 145 p.
In: Books

A Last Line of Defence: A Strategy for Europe to Preserve the Iran Nuclear Deal

Riccardo Alcaro, Andrea Dessì
Rome, IAI, June 2019, 24 p.
In: IAI Papers

Unpredictability in US foreign policy and the regional order in the Middle East: reacting vis-à-vis a volatile external security-provider

Jordi Quero, Andrea Dessì
in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 17 February 2019
In: Other papers/articles

The EU Global Strategy and the MENA Region: In Search of Resilience

Andrea Dessì
Brussels, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), November 2018, 9 p. (EU Global Strategy Watch ; 6)
In: Other papers/articles

The Gaza Equation: The Regional Dimension of a Local Conflict

Andrea Dessì, Lorenzo Kamel
Rome, IAI, September 2018, 15 p.
In: MENARA Papers

L'Italia al bivio. Rapporto sulla politica estera italiana, Edizione 2018

Ettore Greco,
Rome, Nuova Cultura, July 2018, 186 p.
In: Quaderni IAI

The Impact of Global Drivers on the Future of EU-Turkey Security Relations

Jakob Lindgaard, Andrea Dessì, Fabrizio Tassinari [...]
Cologne, University of Cologne, July 2018, 37 p.
In: FEUTURE Papers