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Arturo Varvelli

Head, ECFR Rome Office - ISPI Senior Associate Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa

Arturo Varvelli

Arturo Varvelli is the Head of the Rome Office and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and a Senior Associate Fellow at ISPI. He also works as a scholar on topics such as Italian-Libyan relations, Libyan domestic and foreign politics, Italian foreign policy in the Middle East and Mediterranean region, Jihadist groups in North Africa, having published both books and articles on these subjects. Dr Varvelli is also a lecturer of History and Institutions of the Middle East at IULM University in Milan and Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) in Brussels. In 2006, he completed a Ph.D. in International History at the University of Milan, where he worked as a lecturer in History of International Relations. In 2007, he was a post-Ph.D. fellow at the CRT Foundation in Turin.

He has served on research projects commissioned by the research office of the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as by European Parliament and Commission. In 2015, he was chosen by the U.S. State Department to take part in the “International Visitor Leadership Program". Varvelli is also regularly interviewed on foreign affairs issues by domestic as well as international networks outlets.

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EXPERTISE
  • Italian-Libyan relations

    Libyan domestic and foreign politics

    Italian foreign policy 

  • Jihadism in North Africa

latest releases

Europe and Global Governance, Middle East and North Africa
United We Should Stand: Europe and the Libyan Quagmire
16 February 2021
Middle East and North Africa
The Rise and the Future of Militias in the MENA Region
02 December 2019
Middle East and North Africa
Italy’s Libyan Conundrum: The Risks of Short-Term Thinking
26 November 2019
Middle East and North Africa
The MENA Region: A Great Power Competition
08 October 2019

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EVENTS

18 Mar
Kingdom of Militias? Mapping the Libyan Security Challenge
16:00
Palazzo Clerici (Via Clerici, 5)
INTERNATIONAL LECTURES
17 Nov
Beyond Crisis: identifying top priorities in North Africa for 2018
8:30
Brussels, International Crisis Group HQ
Conferenza Internazionale
17 Nov
Beyond Crisis: identifying top priorities in North Africa for 2018
8:30
Brussels, International Crisis Group HQ
Conferenza Internazionale
12 Oct
From Syria to Libya - The arc of Instability
17:00
Rome, Chiostro del Convento di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva (Piazza della Minerva, 38)
Conferenza Internazionale

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IN THE MEDIA

Radio24 - Effetto giorno
La visita di Luigi Di Maio in Libia per incontrare il premier a Tripoli
17 December 2019
Radio24 - Nessun luogo è lontano
Libia. L'incontro tra Mohammed Taher Siyala e Luigi Di Maio.
09 December 2019
Radio24 - Effetto notte
L'Isis ha rivendicato l'attentato nei confronti dei militari italiani.
11 November 2019
Radio24 - Nessun luogo è lontano
Creare un corridoio diplomatico per risolvere la crisi in Libia.
18 September 2019

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