Biography
Raffaella A. Del Sarto holds the Joint Mediterranean Chair at the Department for Political and Social Sciences and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Before joining the EUI, she was Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), SAIS Europe. She was previously a part-time professor at the EUI, where she held an ERC-funded project, and a fellow at the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford University. She received her PhD (summa cum laude) in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her MA in Political Science from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany.
Her research interests include the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa; the region’s relations to Europe; the domestic-foreign policy nexus; regional order(s), borders, and interdependence in the Middle East; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and Israel’s foreign and domestic policies. Her latest book, Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East was published with Oxford University Press in 2022. Her previous book, Israel under Siege: The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right, was published with Georgetown University Press in 2017. Her contributions have appeared in International Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, Geopolitics, The Middle East Journal, Democratization, Mediterranean Politics and other journals and volumes.
She is fluent in English, German, French, Italian, and Hebrew, and she knows some Arabic and some Spanish