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Maria Luisa Fantappie is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Center, focusing her research on informal power in post-conflict and post-authoritarian settings. She holds an MPhil with distinction from Sciences Po Paris (2009) and a PhD from King’s College London in the Department of War Studies. Her recent publications include an analysis of the relationships between politicians and military officers in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, aiming to build conceptual understanding of how these relationships define political order in post-invasion contexts. Maria has extensive experience as a Senior Adviser at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and the International Crisis Group, where she conducted fieldwork across Iraq and the Middle East for over a decade. In 2018, she was seconded to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Strategic Adviser for the EU Mission involved in security sector reform in Baghdad. Currently, she serves as the Head of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa Program at the Instituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. Her expertise includes new-institutionalism, informal connections, political transitions, and historical sociology.
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