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Biography
Dr. Luíza Cerioli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel. She focuses on International Relations of the Middle East and foreign policy of the Global South. At the project, she researches the possibilities of transnational cross-comparison of extractivist countries in Latin America and the Middle East, focusing on the development plans of Venezuela, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Algeria. She has a PhD in Political Science from the Centre for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS) at the University of Marburg. She holds an International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy Master from the University of Brasília (UnB), and her alma mater is the University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Short
Biography
Dr. Luíza Cerioli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel. She focuses on International Relations of the Middle East and foreign policy of the Global South. At the project, she researches the possibilities of transnational cross-comparison of extractivist countries in Latin America and the Middle East, focusing on the development plans of Venezuela, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Algeria. She has a Phd in Political Science from the Centre for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS) at the University of Marburg. She holds an International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy Master from the University of Brasília (UnB), and her alma mater is the University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Research Interests
- IR theories and Global IR
- Middle Eastern geopolitics
- South-South relations
- Uneven Global Development
- Neoclassical Realism
Regional focus
- Persian Gulf
- Maghreb
- Latin America
Recent Publications (selection)
- Cerioli, L. (2024), The Persian Gulf Triangle: the relationship between Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ACCESS BOOK
- Cerioli, L. and Warnecke-Berger, H. (forthcoming). Extractivism and International Relations. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cerioli, L. (forthcoming). Neoclassical Realism as a path for growing collaboration across Middle East’s International Relations and Area Studies. In: E. Wastnigde, F. Belcastro (Eds.) International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Cerioli, L.; Carvalho Pinto, V. (2017). Novas dinâmicas de segurança no Golfo Pérsico. a ascensão da Arábia Saudita e dos Emirados Árabes Unidos. In L. Moita, L.M. Pinto (Eds.): Espaços Económicos e Espaços de Segurança (pp. 365–385). Lisboa: Observare.
- Cerioli, L. (2018). Saudi Arabia’s National Roles Conceptions After the Arab Uprisings: The image transformation from Western whist partner to proactive regional leader. In D. Khatib, M. Maziad (Eds.), The Arab Gulf States and the West (pp. 181-202). London: Routledge.
- Cerioli, L. (2024). Neoclassical Realism, Global International Relations, and the unheard echoes of Realist practices from the South. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, O, (0), 1-18. ACCESS ARTICLE
- Heibach J. and Cerioli, L. (2024). Saudi Arabia’s ambivalent stance on the Russia-Ukraine war: balancing regime stability and equal sovereignty. Contemporary Security Policy, 1-14. ACCESS ARTICLE
- Cerioli, L. (2024). Searching for a substitute: Algeria and Venezuela as energy security alternatives for Europe? Extractivism Policy Briefs, 01, 1-15 ACCESS ARTICLE
- Cerioli, L. (2023). Saudi Arabian strategy reassessment since 2003: The emergence of a regional leadership via Neoclassical Realist lenses. International Area Studies Review, 0(0). ACCESS ARTICLE
- Cerioli, L. (2023). Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government. Extractivism Policy Briefs, 04, 1-16. ACCESS ARTICLE
- Barasuol, F.; Cerioli, L.; Kalil, M. (2022). The Global South and its Perspectives: Expanding the Frontier of International Relations. Revista Monções (21), 11, 27–50. ACCESS ARTICLE
- Cerioli, L. (2019). Driving in the middle of the road: Paradoxes of women’s role under the new Saudi Arabian Nationalism. Ex aequo (40), 49–64. ACCESS ARTICLE
- Cerioli, L. (2018). Roles and International Behaviour: Saudi–Iranian Rivalry in Bahrain’s and Yemen’s Arab Spring. Contexto Internacional 40 (2), 295–317.