marina.calculli
Marina Calculli
marina.calculli@sciencespo.frMarina Calculli is a scholar of International Relations. Her research sits at the intersection of International Relations, History, Law and Political Theory. She concentrates on Middle East security, political violence, and the role of religious and secular ideas in world politics.
She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) of Sciences Po Paris and the Department of Middle Eastern, South-Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) of Columbia University in New York City.
She is on leave from Leiden University, where she is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Humanities.
In her previous projects, she has explored cooperation and rivalry between states and Islamist actors in the international system, the rise and role of non-state armed groups and the moral justification of political violence.
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Languages
French, English, Arabic, Italian
BOOK
(2018). Come uno stato. Hizbullah e la mimesi strategica, Milan, Vita&Pensiero (Revised English translation forthcoming, with the title 'The politics of dissimulation: how Hezbollah resists against the world'.)
ARTICLES
(2021) Self-determination: the story of the liberal appropriation of a socialist principle, in Fassi, E. & Parsi, V.E. (ed.), The Liberal World Order and beyond. Milan, Vita&Pensiero: 137- 149.
(2020) Between the battlefield and the ballot box: armed political parties in the Middle East, in F. Cavatorta, L. Storm, V. Resta, The Handbook of Political Parties in the Middle East: 356-368.
(2020) Reconceiving the struggle between non-state armed organizations, the state and ‘the international’ in the Middle East, in L. Sadiki (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics, London, Routledge: 419-431.
(2019) Middle East Security: the politics of violence after the 2003 Iraq war, in L. Fawcett (ed.), International Relations of the Middle East, 5th edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019: 226-244.
(2018) Mirage of Retrenchment: Obama and the Syrian Conflict”, in Clementi, M., Dian, M., Pisciotta, B. (eds.), US Foreign Policy in a Challenging World - Building Order on Shifting Foundations, New York, Springer, 2018: 279-296.
(2014) National prerogatives in International Peacekeeping: Italy in Lebanese perception and Rome’s role within UNIFIL II. Cahiers de la Méditerranée 88 (3): 201-214.
