PUBLICATIONS
- Papale, Simone, Food Warfare (Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming, 2025/2026).
- Papale, Simone and Emanuele Castelli, “Russia, Ukraine, and Food Warfare,” International Affairs (forthcoming, accepted on August 26, 2025).
- Papale, Simone, "Changing Course? The US Biden Administration and the Promotion of Peace and Counter-terrorism in Africa," International Peacekeeping (2025): 1-26.
- Papale, Simone and Emanuele Castelli, "Food, Terrorism, and the Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab Insurgencies," Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2025): 1-25.
- Papale, Simone and Marco Solaroli, "Frames of conflict/conflict of frames: A frame analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Italian press and politics," Media, War & Conflict (2025): 1-19.
- Papale, Simone and Marco Solaroli, “La guerra stampata,” in ShoWar, eds. Anna Maria Lorusso e Marco Santoro (Donzelli Editore, 2025), 21-37.
- Papale, Simone, "Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya," Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 18, no. 3 (2024): 306-325.
- Castelli, Emanuele and Simone Papale, "Two decades of SGRI: Italy and the evolution of IR scholarship in the twenty-first century," Italian Political Science 19, no. 1 (2024): 70-78.
- Papale, Simone, "The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa," Security Journal 36, no. 3 (2023): 459-471.
- Papale, Simone, "Fuelling the fire: Al-Shabaab, counter-terrorism and radicalisation in Kenya," Critical Studies on Terrorism 15, no. 2 (2022): 356-380.
- Papale, Simone, "Framing frictions: frame analysis and Al-Shabaab’s mobilisation strategies in Kenya," Critical Studies on Terrorism 14, no. 1 (2021): 1-23.
COMMENTARIES AND POLICY PAPERS
- Papale, Simone and Emanuele Castelli, “Fame di potere,” Nigrizia, July/August 2025. https://www.nigrizia.it/notizia/fame-potere-boko-haram-nigeria-cibo-controllo
- Papale, Simone and Emanuele Castelli, “Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger,” The Conversation, May 18, 2025. https://theconversation.com/terrorists-use-food-as-a-weapon-how-boko-haram-and-al-shabaab-exploit-hunger-256162
- Papale, Simone and Emanuele Castelli, “The Role of Food in Civil Conflicts,” Food For Future, 2025. https://www.foodforfuture.unipr.it/news-en/the-role-of-food-in-civil-conflicts
- Papale, Simone and Chiara Cervasio, “Ukraine, Remote Interventionism, and the Stability-Instability Paradox: The Need to Re-Prioritise Nuclear Risk Reduction,” British American Security Information Council (BASIC), 2022. https://basicint.org/ukraine-remote-interventionism-and-the-stability-instability-paradox-the-need-to-re-prioritise-nuclear-risk-reduction/
- Papale, Simone, “Counter-terrorism and the fight against Al-Shabaab in East Africa: Time for a more targeted approach,” Security Praxis, 2022. https://www.securitypraxis.eu/counter-terrorism-and-the-fight-against-al-shabaab-in-east-africa-time-for-a-more-targeted-approach/
- Papale, Simone, “A major shift? Biden, Africa and (the stagnation of) the US security policy,” Security Praxis, 2022. https://www.securitypraxis.eu/usa-biden-security-policy-africa/
