Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Trieste
Federico Donelli, Ph.D. is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Trieste, Italy. His research areas include international politics and security studies of the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the foreign policy of various regional and extra-regional actors. He is currently working on the militarization of the Red Sea and the increasing global competition in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Small Wars & Insurgencies, and The International Spectator. He is also the author of Turkey in Africa. Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa, published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Red Sea politics: why Turkey is helping Somalia defend its waters
Feb 29, 2024 11:54 am UTC| Insights & Views
Somalia and Turkey recently announced that they would expand the terms of a defence agreement first signed on 8 February 2024 to include the maritime sector. This came as tensions rose between Somalia and landlocked...