Raffaella Del Sarto

 

Raffaella Del Sarto is Part-time Professor at the RSCAS and Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies and International Relations, SAIS Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University.

She directs the project on "BORDERLANDS: Boundaries, Governance, and Power in the European Union’s Relations with North Africa and the Middle East " for which she has been awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant by the European Research Council.

 

Research Areas and Interests

Her research interests include Middle East politics, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the European Union’s relations with North Africa and the Middle East. She is also interested in the politics and society of modern Israel as well as Israel's foreign relations, in particular with the EU. An additional research interest is International Relations theory, with a particular focus on the domestic-foreign policy nexus as well as the link between interests and identities.

 

Selected Publications

• ‘From Brussels with Love: Leverage, Benchmarking, and the Action Plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's Democratization Policy’ (with T. Schumacher), Democratization 18/4 (2011): 932-955.
• ‘Plus ça change…? Israel, the EU and the Union for the Mediterranean’, Mediterranean Politics 16/1, 2011: 117-153.
• ‘Borderlands: The Middle East and North Africa as the EU’s Southern Buffer Zone’, in D. Bechev and K. Nicolaidis (eds.), Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflicts and Memory in a Transnational World, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, pp. 149-167.
• ‘Back to Square One? The Netanyahu Government and the Prospects for Middle East Peace’, Mediterranean Politics 14(3): 421-428 (2009).
• ‘Italy's Politics without Policy: Balancing Atlanticism and Europeanism in the Middle East’ (with N. Tocci), Modern Italy 13/2 (2008): 135-53.
• ‘Wording and Meaning(s): EU-Israeli Political Cooperation according to the ENP Action Plan’, Mediterranean Politics 12/1 (2007): 59-74.
• ‘Il confine del consenso: La guerra dei Sei Giorni e la frammentazione della società e della politica israeliana’, in A. Marzano and M. Simoni (eds.), Quarant'anni dopo: Confini, Barriere e Limiti in Israele-Palestina, 1967-2007, Bologna: Il Ponte, 2007, pp. 33-48.
• Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, joint ed. with E. Adler, F. Bicchi, and B. Crawford, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
• ‘Region-Building, EU Normative Power, and Contested Identities: The Case of Israel’, in E. Adler, F. Bicchi, B. Crawford, and R. Del Sarto (eds.): The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. 296-333.
• ‘Interfacing the European Union with International Relations’, Book review of International Relations and the European Union, edited by C. Hill and M. Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), The International Spectator 40/1, 2006: 115-117.
• Security and Democracy in the European Union, joint ed. with C. Kantner and A. Liberatore, special issue of European Security 15/4 (2006).
• ‘Security and Democracy: A Reprise’, European Security, special issue on 'Security and Democracy in the European Union,' (eds.) R. Del Sarto, C. Kantner, and A. Liberatore, 15/4 (2006): 507-518.
• ‘Changes in EU-Israeli Relations?’, Internationale Politik Transatlantic Edition 7/1 (2006): 92-103.
• Benchmarking Human Rights and Democratic Development in the Euro-Mediterranean Context: Conceptualising Ends, Means, and Strategies, lead author, with contributions of A. Driss, E. Lannon, and T. Schumacher, EuroMeSCo Annual Report, Lisbon: EuroMeSCo secretariat, 2006 (also at http://www.euromesco.net/images/04.pdf )
• ‘Setting the (Cultural) Agenda: Concepts, Communities, and Representation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations’, Mediterranean Politics 10/3 (2005): 313-330.
• ‘From EMP to ENP: What's at Stake with the European Neighbourhood Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean?’ (with T. Schumacher), European Foreign Affairs Review 10/1 (2005): 17-38.
• ‘Israel’s Contested Identity and the Mediterranean’, Mediterranean Politics 8/1 (2003): 27-58.
• ‘Caught between Europe and the Orient: Israel and the EMP’ (with A. Tovias), The International Spectator 36/4 (2001): 61-75.