
Daniela Huber is Head of the Mediterranean and Middle East Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Editor of The International Spectator. She is also adjunct professor at Roma Tre University where she teaches a M.A. course on International Politics. She holds the Italian national habilitation to function as associate professor in Political Science (2017; unanimous approval), a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013), an M.A. in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin (2006) and a B.A. in Political Science from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2003).
Currently, she is work package leader in the H2020 project EU-LISTCO, researcher in the Jean-Monnet Network EUMENIA, and mentor in the Marie-Curie funded European Joint Doctorate Programme GEM-STONES. She has won and scientifically co-coordinated the European Commission funded Horizon 2020 Project MEDRESET between 2016 and 2019. She has also won individual research grants from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Her research interests include IR theories and methodologies, international relations and contemporary politics in the Middle East, as well as EU and US foreign policy towards and their role in conflicts in the Middle East. On these issues, she has published two monographs (Palgrave and State University of New York Press), 13 peer-reviewed articles, 7 edited books, 6 book chapters and numerous research papers and commentaries. She has worked for the United Nations and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in the Middle East and has pursued extensive field research in the region as she lived for 5 years in Jerusalem, and organized/participated in workshops and conferences in Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey.
From Tectonic Shifts to Winds of Change in North Africa and the Middle East: Europe’s Role
The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. A Post-Eurocentric Approach
Equal Rights as a Basis for Just Peace: a European Paradigm Shift for Israel/Palestine
The EU in the world: The progressive potential
Multipolarismo competitivo, problemi economici e dinamiche interne: Tunisia e Algeria tra resilienza e fragilità
Ten Years Into the Arab Uprising: Images of EU's Presence, Practices, and Alternatives in the Mediterranean Space
Contesting 'EU as Empire' from Within? Analysing European Perceptions on EU Presence and Practices in the Mediterranean
The New European Commission's Green Deal and Geopolitical Language: A Critique from a Decentring Perspective
Towards a More Reflexive EU in the Mediterranean
A New Venice Declaration from a "Coalition of the Lead Donors" on Israel/Palestine
- 21/09/2016 - press The Diplomat - Huber: Power Play in Post-Coup Turkey