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Federica Saini Fasanotti

Senior Associate Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa

Federica Saini Fasanotti is a Senior Associate Fellow at ISPI. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, of the Foreign Policy program at The Brookings Institution. In 2004, she gained a PhD degree at the University of Milan, with a study on controversial relationship between Fascism and the Italian Red Cross.

She is a specialist of counterinsurgency. She is a military historian expert in African colonies: her studies have covered Libya and the Horn of Africa, but also Afghanistan. She is a frequent lecturer at military history conferences and congresses, and is a guest lecturer for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Her many published essays and articles have also appeared in historical and geopolitical journals.

She developed for Rai-National Italian Television the series "The History of Fascism" (2006) and "The Second World War" (2009), distributed by "Il Corriere della Sera". She has published five historical books and she is publishing the last one with the Naval Institute of Annapolis on the Italian Counterinsurgency Operations in Libya and Ethiopia (1922-1940). 

In September 2016 she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs about terrorism in Libya. She has collaborated with the Pentagon and with Secretary of Defense James Mattis as a consultant on Libya. She has worked as an advisor on the Maghreb for Terna Group, the first grid operator for electricity transmission in Europe.

LANGUAGES

English

Italian

Spanish

EXPERTISE

Counterinsurgency

Italian-Libyan relations

Libyan domestic and foreign politics

latest releases

Middle East and North Africa
Libya's Relentless Crisis
10 July 2022
Middle East and North Africa
10 Years After the Revolution, Libya Is (Still) on the Brink of Collapse
08 July 2022
Europe and Global Governance, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia, Energy Security
Europe’s Energy Security is Russian Roulette
22 February 2022
Middle East and North Africa
Crisis to watch: Libya
22 December 2021

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EVENTS

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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The Washington Post
Libya’s factions chose interim government ahead of elections
06 February 2021
Radio Vaticana
Pescatori italiani sequestrati in Libia, vittime del caos geopolitico nel Mediterraneo
15 September 2020
Radio Vaticana
Il conflitto internazionale sulla Libia e la crisi umanitaria
15 July 2020

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