Chiara Lovotti
Curriculum vitae e dichiarazione altri incarichi ex D.lgs. n.33/2013

Current position 

PhD Candidate at the Department of Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics of the University of Bologna. Chiara researches on the Middle East and North Africa and her PhD thesis focuses on the role and impact of the Soviet Union in the processes of state-building in postcolonial Arab countries. 

 

Education 

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages and International Relations from the Catholic University of Milan; a two-years Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and a one-year Master’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI), Milan. 

 

Research activities 

Pravda Archives, Fiesole, Summer 2019 

ArabTrans Project (Horizon 20202), 2013-2016

 

Fellowships 

Since 2015, Associate Research Fellow for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Centre of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). At ISPI, her research interests are focused on socio-political transformations in the MENA, mostly Syria and Iraq; relations between Russia and the MENA countries; and Russian foreign policy towards the area.

 

Languages 

Italian, English, French, Russian, and basic Arabic