Clara della Valle

WORK EXPERIENCE

Current positions

• Research Fellow (Roberto Ruffilli Fellowships), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (since December 2023)
• Adjunct Professor in International Relations, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (since February 2021)
• Associate Editor Interdisciplinary Political Studies (since September 2025)

Previous positions

• Teaching Tutor in International Relations, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, February 2020-September 2024
• Research Fellow (UnaEuropa project), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, May 2021-December 2023
• Academic Tutor of the Master in International Security Studies (MISS), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), September 2020-July 2021
• Project Manager and Researcher of the project Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS), implemented by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in partnership with Agency for Peacebuilding (AP), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, January-November 2020
  
• Journalist, 'Fuori le Mura' newspaper (Rome), May 2011-May 2013 / Registered with the Italian Order of Journalists (Albo Nazionale dei Giornalisti - Elenco Pubblicisti) since 25 June 2013
• Assistant to training and communication, Rondine Cittadella della Pace NPO (Arezzo), May 2012-December 2012
• Intern, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, DGIT 7 (Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies), September 2011-December 2011
  

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Ph.D. in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), July 2019. Final result: cum laude
  - Field research and visiting period: Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis), November 2016, March 2017-November 2017
  - Summer Schools: IV ENP Ph.D. Summer School: ‘The ENP under pressure: conceptual and empirical understanding of EU foreign policy towards the eastern and the southern neighbourhood’, organised by the ENP Chair of the College of Europe in collaboration with the ECPR; ECPR-SGEU; TEPSA. College of Europe (Natolin, Warsaw), 23 June – 1 July 2016. II Summer School on ‘Grounded Theory and Qualitative Methods’. Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa (Pisa), 05-09 June 2017.
  
• II Level Master’s Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe (Bruges), June 2015. Final result: Good
• Master’s Degree in International Relations, LUISS University (Rome), April 2013. Final result: 110/110 cum laude
• Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Communication Studies, LUISS University (Rome), November 2010. Final result: 110/110 cum laude
  - Erasmus Exchange Program, Science Po Aix (Aix en Provence), September 2009-December 2009.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Representative positions

• Post-doctoral researchers’ representative at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna – member of the ‘Giunta’ and ‘Consiglio’ of the Department (since March 2023).
• Member of the ‘Comitato Diversità, equità e inclusione’ at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna (since July 2024).
• Ph.D. students’ representative of the course in ‘Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability’ at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa). AY: 2015-2016.

Teaching & Didactic Management

• Course unit (modules 3 and 4) within the course ‘Relazioni Internazionali’ held by Prof Michela Ceccorulli, L-SID, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), April 2022-ongoing.
• Common course ‘Introduction to International Relations’, Joint Bachelor of Arts in European Studies (BAES) offered by Università di Bologna, KU Leuven, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Bologna Campus), November-December 2023.
  
• Tutorial Course within the courses ‘Relazioni Internazionali’ held by Prof Sonia Lucarelli and Prof Michela Ceccorulli, L-SID, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), April 2022-May 2024.
• Seminars within the common course ‘European Cultures and Societies’, BAES, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Bologna Campus), October-December 2022; October-December 2023.
• Seminars within the common course ‘European Integration’, BAES, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali Università di Bologna (Bologna Campus), October 2023.
• Seminars ‘La questione di genere nelle relazioni internazionali’ and ‘Sfide concettuali ed empiriche dell’Agenda Donne, Pace e Sicurezza’ within the cycle of meetings ‘La sicurezza nella politica internazionale’, organized by Dr Massimo Prearo, Corso di Laurea in ‘Studi Strategici per la Sicurezza e le Politiche Internazionali’, University of Verona, 9 and 24 October 2023.
• Lecture ‘Gender, Peace and Security: Limits and Challenges to the WPS Agenda’s implementation’, given within the project ‘Young Reporters In Dialogue: Training Program On Regional Cooperation And Reconciliation’, Università di Bologna (Centro Residenziale Universitario Bertinoro), 28 September 2022.
• Lecture ‘Gender, peace and (in)security in Africa’ (with Dr Elisa Piras and Dr Laura Berlingozzi) within the Seasonal School ‘African Perspectives: Change, Conflicts, Connections’, organized by Prof Francesco Strazzari and Dr Luca Raineri, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), 8 March 2022.
• Contribution to the didactic organization of the BAES: drafting of the documentation required for the accreditation process at the MIUR; organization and participation in guidance services and events - Virtual Fair (25 January 2022); AlmaOrienta (28 February-04 March 2022); AlmaOrienta (30-31 January 2023); Open Days (April/May 2022; September 2023).
• Co-supervision of the thesis ‘La teoria costruttivista per comprendere e combattere il terrorismo: il caso di Al-Qaeda e Stati Uniti’, presented by Ilenia Lodato (Supervisor: Prof Francesca Biancani), LM-SID, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), January-February 2022.
• Lecture ‘Gender & IR’ within the course in ‘International Politics’ held by Dr Ervjola Selenica, Spring Hill College Italy Centre, Bologna, 26 October 2021.
• Course unit (module 7) within the course ‘Relazioni Internazionali’ held by Prof Eugenia Baroncelli, L-SID, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), April-May 2021.
• Course unit (module 3) within the course in ‘International Relations’, held by Prof Sonia Lucarelli, L-DIS, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), April-May 2021.
• Seminars on ‘Realism’, ‘Liberalism’ and ‘Global Governance’ within the course in ‘International Relations’ held by Prof Sonia Lucarelli, L-DIS, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), 18 March, 1 April, 28 April 2020.
• Lecture ‘Feminism & IR’ within the courses ‘International Relations’ held by Prof Sonia Lucarelli & ‘Relazioni Internazionali’ held by Prof Eugenia Baroncelli, L-DIS/SID, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), 21 April 2020.
• Lecture ‘Sguardi di genere. Storia e attualità dei movimenti femminili nell’Impero Ottomano, in Turchia, e in Tunisia’ (with Dr Çiğdem Oguz) within the course ‘Storia dei Paesi Islamici’ held by Prof Renata Pepicelli. Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa (Pisa), 10 May 2018.
• Lecture ‘Una transizione fragile. Il rapporto tra Stato e società civile in Tunisia’ (with Dr Ester Sigillò) within the course ‘Relazioni Internazionali’ held by Prof Emidio Diodato, Master in ‘Relazioni Internazionali e Cooperazione allo Sviluppo’, Università per Stranieri (Perugia), 16 April 2018.
• Lecture ‘A gap between rhetoric and performance? EU Normative Power applied to Tunisia and Egypt’s transitions’ within the course ‘EU: a Civilian Power in a Transnational Context’ held by Prof Anna Loretoni, Master in ‘International Studies and Transnational Governance’, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), 12 November 2015.
  

Research projects

• Recentralising ‘Global South’ discourses and practices on Women, Peace and Security. A comparative analysis of the UNSCR 1325 implementation in Tunisia, Morocco and Lebanon, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. Role: postdoctoral researcher; Supervisor: Prof Sonia Lucarelli (December 2023-December 2025).
• Patron-Client Relations in World Politics: multi-year’s research project led by Prof Rafael Biermann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) dealing with the re-conceptualisation of PCR in contemporary world politics and funded by KonKoop, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Role: participant (June 2024-ongoing).
• Enhancing Women's Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS): project implemented by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in partnership with AP and funded by the MAECI. The project investigated the state of implementation of UNSCR 1325 in two geographical areas: North Africa (Tunisia and Morocco) and Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo) through research and policy-dialogue activities. Role: project manager and researcher; Supervisor: Prof Francesco Strazzari (January 2020-November 2020).

Conferences, seminars and workshops

Organization

• Co-organizer of the ‘International Studies PhD Workshop’ and the XVII Conference of the Standing Group of IR (SGRI) of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), with the support of EPRA-Hub an ASERI. University of Milan, 11-13 June 2025.
• Co-organizer of the ‘IR roundtables’ (PhD students and post-doc fellows in IR) at the Department of Political and Social Sciences. Università di Bologna (Bologna Campus), October 2024-June 2025.
• Co-organizer of the ‘International Studies PhD Workshop’ of the SGRI of the SISP, with the support of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR). Università di Parma, 19 June 2024.
• Co-organizer of the ‘Post-doc seminars’ at the Department of Political and Social Sciences. Università di Bologna (Bologna Campus), February-June 2024.
• Co-organizer of the cycle of international meetings on ‘Gender, Peace and Security’, realized with the contribution of the Punto Europa and the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, in partnership with Agency for Peacebuilding (Bologna). Università di Bologna (Forlì Campus), March-May 2022.
• Co-organizer of the webinar ‘Finanziamenti, posizionamento e prospettive di ricerca sull’area MENA: quali sfide e quali opportunità per giovani ricercatori e ricercatrici?’ for the SeSaMo Webinar Series ‘Ricerca e Medio Oriente 2021-2022’. Online on Teams, 5 May 2022.
• Co-organizer of the international conference ‘Celebrating 20 years of UNSCR 1325: Past, present and future of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and online on WebEx, 4 November 2020.
• Co-organizer of the conference ‘Diversity. Un approccio interdisciplinare’, promoted by Cross-Think Lab and Trim2 Srl. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), 13 December 2016.
• Co-organizer of the seminar ‘La ricerca accademica sul campo: rischi e responsabilità’ in honour of Giulio Regeni. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), 24 May 2016.
• Co-organizer of the seminar ‘Deteriorating Human Rights and Freedoms in Egypt. Reflections after the Regeni murder’ in honour of Giulio Regeni. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), 12 May 2016.

Participation

• Participant in the XII Exploratory Symposia of the European International Studies Association (EISA), research group ‘Patron-Client Relations in Global Governance: Advancing the Research Agenda’. Rapallo, 26-29 October 2025.
• Chair of the semi-plenary roundtable ‘Gender Rights between Global Crises and New Resistances: Reflections 30 Years after the Beijing Platform for Action and 25 Years of UNSCR 1325’; co-chair (with Dr Giulia Cimini and Dr Ester Sigillò) of panel 1.10 ‘Understanding the authoritarian drift in the MENA region between local and global dynamics’, section 1 ‘Political Regimes and Transitions’; co-chair (with Dr Nicolò Fasola) of panel 7.11 ‘Patron-Client Relations in a World Politics: a Concept in Flux?’ and paper presenter, section 7 ‘International Relations’, at the XXXVIII SISP Conference. University of Naples Federico II, 4-6 September 2025.
• Paper presenter in the panel ‘International Organizations as Patrons’, section 31 ‘Patron-Client Relations in a Changing World Order’, at the XVIII Pan-European Conference on International Relations of the EISA. University of Bologna, 25-29 August 2025.
• Co-chair (with Prof Daniela Verena Huber) of the panel ‘The EU and MENA in a changing world order: migration, climate and security’ at the XVII Conference of the SGRI of the SISP. University of Milan, 12-13 June 2025.
• Discussant at the ‘International Studies PhD Workshop’ of the SGRI of the SISP. University of Milan, 11 June 2025.
• Paper presenter at the ‘IR roundtables’ of the University of Bologna (Discussant: Prof Daniela Verena Huber). University of Bologna, 19 May 2025.
• Invited speaker at the seminar ‘The exception and the norm: political changes in Tunisia between local and global dynamics’, organized by Dr Ester Sigillò, Lorenzo Ghione and Insaf Dimassi. DSPS, University of Bologna, 19 December 2024.
• Participant in the XXXVII SISP Conference. University of Trieste, 12-14 September 2024.
• Paper presenter in the workshop ‘Merging Critical Development Studies and Critical Terrorism Studies: the co-production of security through global and local approaches’ at the XI European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) of the EISA. Kadir Has University (Istanbul), 3-5 July 2024.
• Chair of the panel ‘The Shaping of Political Spaces and Imaginaries’ and paper presenter at the XVI Conference of the SGRI of the SISP. University of Parma, 20-21 June 2024.
• Discussant at the ‘International Studies PhD Workshop’ of the SGRI of the SISP. University of Parma, 19 June 2024.
• Paper presenter at the Authors’ Workshop on ‘Patron-Client Relations in World Politics’ organised by the University of Jena. Dornburg, 13-16 June 2024.
• Paper presenter (with Dr Guendalina Simoncini) in panel 12.5 ‘Democracy, Gender Equality and Social Movements’ and discussant in panel 12.7 ‘Gender and Sexuality in Politics: expanding the field’, section 12 ‘Gender and Politics’, at the XXXVI SISP Conference. University of Genoa, 14-16 September 2023.
• Co-chair (with Dr Simone Papale) of the panel ‘Contemporary challenges to peace and security in Africa: exploring emerging perspectives’ and paper presenter at the XV Conference of the SGRI of the SISP. University of Catania, 15-16 June 2023.
• Invited participant at the closed-door conference ‘Feminist Perspectives on peace and security in Europe’, organised by the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) and PAX Netherlands. Brussels, 5-6 June 2023.
• Paper presenter (with Dr Guendalina Simoncini) at the Study Days ‘Social Movements and Collective Action in Times of Multiple Crises’ of the Standing Group ‘Social Movements and Political Participation’ of the SISP. University of Catania, 26-27 May 2023.
• Paper presenter in the workshop ‘Assessing gendered impacts of crises in Tunisia: historical perspectives and multidimensional analysis’ at the International Forum for Humanities and Social Sciences ‘Insaniyyat’. University La Manouba, Tunis, 20-24 Sept. 2022.
• Paper presenter in panel 11.5 ‘Gender dynamics of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’, section 11 ‘Gender and Politics’, at the XXXV SISP Conference. University of Roma La Sapienza, 08-10 September 2022.
• Paper presenter in the workshop ‘Visions and Impediments in the promotion of Women, Peace and Security Agenda in South Eastern Europe and East Mediterranean’ at the IX EWIS of the EISA. University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), 6-9 July 2022.
• Paper presenter in the panel ‘Gender and multiple crises in Tunisia. Exploring the consequences of crises on women and men relations, gender roles and representations through a historical approach’ at the XV SeSaMo Conference. University of Naples the Orientale, 22-24 June 2022.
• Paper presenter at the ‘Post-Docs of the University of Bologna Webinar Series’ (Discussant: Prof Sonia Lucarelli). Online on Teams, 14 December 2021.
• Paper presenter in panel 3.10 ‘Framing (in)security in the Middle East and North Africa, old trends and new challenges compared’, section 3 ‘Comparative Politics’, at the XXXIV SISP Conference. Online on Zoom, 9-11 September 2021.
• Paper presenter (with Prof Francesco Strazzari) in panel TG25 ‘Women and Wars’ at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention. Online on Zoom, April 6, 2021.
• Invited speaker at the Conference ‘Ṯawrat al-karāma: memorie, percorsi e analisi a 10 anni dalla rivoluzione tunisina’, organized by Prof Renata Pepicelli. University of Pisa, Online on Teams, 13-14 January 2021.
• Paper presenter in panel 13.2 ‘Human rights and the right to socio-political research in the Mediterranean area’, section 13: ‘The Mediterranean scenario’, at the XXXIII SISP Conference. University of Salento (Lecce), 12-14 September 2019.
• Paper presenter at the 26th International Conference of Europeanists (CES). Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 20-22 June 2019.
• Paper presenter (with Dr Serena Giusti) at the GLOBUS Workshop ‘Gender and EU Foreign Policy’. University College Dublin, 29-30 November 2018.
• Paper presenter at the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). University of Seville, 16-20 July 2018.
• Paper presenter at the conference ‘Europe as a Global Actor’. ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon), 19-20 June 2017.
• Participant in ‘Les Journées Doctoral de l’IRMC: interdisciplinarité et nouvaux objets de recherche’. Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis), 10-11 May 2017.
• Research project presenter at the ‘Atelier Doctoral de l’IRMC’ (Discussant: Dr Jean-Pierre Cassarino). Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis), 27 March 2017.
• Participant in ‘MED2016 – Rome Mediterranean Dialogues’ organized by MAECI and ISPI. Rome, 01-03 December 2016.
• Paper presenter in Panel 8.4: ‘The quest for a new EU Global Strategy. Between theories and practice’, section 8: ‘International Relations’, at the XXX SISP Conference. Milan, 15-17 September 2016.
• Paper presenter at the workshop ‘Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East’, organised by the Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER/IDOS). Athens, 26-28 May 2016.

Third Mission

• Invited speaker at the panel ‘Parità di genere: il ruolo femminile nei processi di peace-building in aree di conflitto e di giustizia transizionale in contesto postbellico’ within the event ‘Costruire la convivenza internazionale’, organized by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, 13 April 2024.
• Invited speaker at the closed-door meeting ‘Tunisia at Crossroads’, organised by Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CESPI). Online on Zoom, 9 January 2024.
• Chair of the debate ‘Gender & IR: Conversations about the Past, Present and Future’ with Prof J. Ann Tickner within the Hikma Summit of IR, organized by the Hikma Students Association of the University of Bologna. Online on Zoom, 16 May 2021.
• Invited speaker at the webinar ‘Scenari di protesta e questioni di genere: Le esperienze di Tunisia, Marocco, Turchia ed Egitto’, organized by theSquare – Mediterranean Center for Revolutionary Studies. Online on Zoom, 11 March 2021.
• Invited speaker at the webinar ‘EU gender policies in Tunisia: what has changed after the 2011 uprising?’, organized by AP. Online on Zoom, 18 September 2020.
• Expert with Torunn L. Tryggestad in the IV Module of the programme ‘The Women Peace and Security Agenda in the pandemic: A high-level online dialogue and training programme’, organized by AP. Online on Zoom, 28-29 October 2020.
• Invited speaker at the round-table of the Cineforum ‘Nove giorni al Cairo. Tortura e omicidio di Giulio Regeni’. University of Pisa, 29 January 2019.
• Invited speaker at the round-table ‘Giulio Regeni, l’Egitto, e i rischi della ricerca accademica’ at the Festival ‘Crocevia di Frontiere’ within UmbriaLibri. Foligno, 18-20 Nov. 2016.
• Co-organizer of policy dialogues and seminars within the ‘Italian Society’ of the ‘Falcone and Borsellino Promotion’ at the College of Europe (Bruges). AY: 2014-2015.

External Reviewer

Contemporary Politics, Taylor & Francis Online; International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, Inderscience Publisher; Review of International Studies, Cambridge University Press; Journal of Intervention and Stetebuilding, Taylor & Francis Online; Globalizations, Taylor & Francis Online; Diacronie, Studi di Storia Contemporanea; Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Scienza e Pace/Science and Peace, CISP - University of Pisa.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Clara della Valle and Guendalina Simoncini, ‘Shades of Presence in Post-2011 Tunisia. Evolving Political Positions in Feminist and Queer Activism’, Contemporary Politics, vol. 31, no. 3, 2025 (online first 2024), pp. 479-500.
• Clara della Valle and Guendalina Simoncini, ‘Féminismes Tunisiens Onlife. Perspectives, pratiques et défis entre monde réel et monde virtuel’, in Renata Pepicelli and Maryam Ben Salem (eds.) Special Issue ‘Genre et Monde Arabe’, Revue Tunisienne de Science Politique, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, pp. 47-76.
• Clara della Valle and Francesco Strazzari, ‘Grasping local participation: the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Western Balkans and North Africa’, Global Society, vol. 37, no. 4, 2023 (online first 2022), pp. 527-548.
• Clara della Valle, ‘Which women? What agenda? Situating WPS in North Africa: the case of Tunisia’, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 121-142.
• Silvia Cittadini and Clara della Valle, ‘Women movements’ perspective on the WPS Agenda in Bosnia-Herzegovina: assessing human security and peacebuilding’, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 41-55.
• Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Clara della Valle and Elisa Piras, ‘Powered by caring: daily struggle to keep the WPS Agenda alive. Interview with Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini’, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 15-22.
• Clara della Valle and Elisa Piras, ‘Special Issue Introduction – The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: time to gild the cracks?’, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 3-15.
• Clara della Valle and Serena Giusti, ‘Disruptions in the ENP cycle: EU gender policies in Tunisia from a decentring perspective’, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 2021, pp. 397-414.
• Clara della Valle, ‘On women’s agency and western representations: EU approach to women’s rights in Tunisia’ in ‘Temas de actualidad en el Mediterráneo/Current issues in the Mediterranean’, Comillas Journal of International Relations, no. 11, 2018, pp. 1-15.

Edited special issues

• Clara della Valle and Elisa Piras, 'The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: time to gild the cracks?', Interdisciplinary Political Studies, vol. 8, no 1, 2022, pp. 1-206.

Book chapters & working papers

• Clara della Valle, ‘Femminismi’, in Ceccarelli Morolli (ed.), Dizionario di Geopolitica, Roma: Centro Alti Studi Difesa, Scuola Superiore Universitaria (CASD-SSU), 2025, pp. 414-416.
• Clara della Valle, ‘Résumé de these: Une étude interdisciplinaire et ‘bottom-up’ des politiques de genre de l’UE en Tunisie: vers une approche basée sur l’agency’, Revue IBLA, no. 224, vol. 82/2019-2, 2020, pp. 173-179.
• Giovanna Capponi, Silvia Cittadini, Clara della Valle, Chiara Pellegrini, ‘Empowering diversity: a dialogue between political theory and business management’, CrossThink LAB Series, Working Paper 1, 2018, pp. 1-33.
  

Forthcoming & work in progress

• Research Monograph ‘Gender and International Relations in North Africa: Decentring EU Policies in Tunisia’, Routledge Studies in Mediterranean Politics – contract signed [expected publication: Spring/Summer 2026]
• Chapter ‘Women, Peace and Security in Tunisia: Dissonant framings and lived struggles’, in Vanessa Newby and Bilge Sahin (eds.) Imagining Gender, Peace and Security in the MENA region, Brill/de Gruyter Press [expected publication: Fall 2025/Winter 2026]
• Chapter ‘The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in a shattered world order. Bottom-up alternatives from Lebanon and UNIFIL’ (with Daniela Verena Huber and Akram Ezzamouri), in Layla Saleh (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Women, Politics and the Middle East [work in progress]
• Chapter ‘Gender policies in PCR: Unpacking the relation between the EU and Tunisian feminist associations’, in Rafael Biermann, Nicolò Fasola and Ivina Petrikova (eds.) book project ‘Patron-Client Relations in World Politics’ [work in progress].
• Article ‘Women, Peace and Security in Tunisia and Morocco: Exploring the nexus between international agenda and local change’, in Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu and Fathima A. Baurdeen (eds.) Special Issue project ‘Localizing International Interventions: Local Perspectives on Transnational Development and Security Policies’ [work in progress].

Research reports & policy briefs

• Clara della Valle, ‘Policy Brief del progetto Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS)’, MAECI, 2020, pp. 1-13.
• Clara della Valle and Francesco Strazzari (with the external collaboration of Sara Borrillo), ‘Report di ricerca del progetto Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS) sull’area geografica del Nord Africa (Tunisia e Marocco)’, MAECI, 2020, pp. 1-56.
• Clara della Valle and Francesco Strazzari (with the external collaboration of Silvia Cittadini and Ervjola Selenica), ‘Report di ricerca del progetto Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS) sull’area geografica dei Balcani Occidentali (Bosnia-Erzegovina e Kosovo)’, MAECI, 2020, pp. 1-52.
  

Blog entries & other publications

• Clara della Valle and Serena Giusti, ‘EU gender policies in the neighbourhood: a decentring perspective from Tunisia’ – Women in International Security Italy (WIIS), 25 November 2021.
• Clara della Valle, ‘Quelle approche européenne au soutien aux droits humains en Tunisie ?’, Lettre N. 20 de l’IRMC, June-October 2017, pp. 17-18.
• From 2011 to 2013 I have published 75 articles on the Italian newspaper “Fuori Le Mura”.

 RESEARCH NETWORKS

• CONNECT – Research Center on Transnational Connections and Global Governance, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (since 2024).
• EISA – European International Studies Association (since 2022).
• EPLO – European Peacebuilding Liaison Office, Brussels, member of Academic Friends (since 2022).
• ERIS – Emerging Research on International Security, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (2020-2023).
• SeSaMo – Società Italiana per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (since 2016), member of the Tavolo Permanente sul Precariato (since 2024).
• SISP – Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (since 2016), member of the SGRI and the SG in Gender and Politics (since 2022), member of the Steering Committee of the SGRI (since 2024).
• SSD – Società per lo Studio della Democrazia, Firenze, secretary (since 2021).

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

• Università di Bologna, 2-years post-doctoral fellowship ‘Roberto Ruffilli’ for the research project: Recentralising ‘Global South’ discourses and perspectives on WPS: a comparative analysis of the UNSCR 1325 implementation in Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon (December 2023-December 2025)
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, Ph.D. thesis selected among those defended in 2019 and 2020 to participate to the first MIUR Call for Ph.D. thesis’ prizes dedicated to Giulio Regeni (2021).
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, Ph.D. Scholarship (2015-2018).
• Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Scholarship for the Master Programs at the College of Europe (2014-2015).
• LUISS Guido Carli University, Scholarship for Post-Graduate Programs abroad (2014-2015).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Italian (mother tongue); English (proficient user); French (proficient user).