Interview with Dr. Ruth Hanau Santini

Episode 43

Interview with Dr. Ruth Hanau Santini on her recently published book: Limited Statehood in Post-revolutionary Tunisia. Citizenship, Economy and Security


Dr. Ruth Hanau Santini is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale." She earned her Master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS in London in 2002, and her Ph.D. from Università Federico II in Naples in 2008. She was Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution from January to December 2011 and she has been working and carrying out research at l'Orientale since 2012.  Dr. Ruth Hanau Santini has led as Principal Investigator two research projects on changing state-society relations in Maghreb after the Arab Uprisings: EUSPRING and STREETPOL.

This episode was recorded on 4 April 2018 at the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT). In this podcast, Dr. Meriem Guetat, CEMAT Assistant Director, interviews Dr. Hanau Santini, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Università Orientale in Naples, Italy, about her new book entitled Limited Statehood in Post-revolutionary Tunisia. Citizenship, Economy and Security (Palgrave, 2018).



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We thank Emna Ben Issa and Bassem Zribi from the Institut Supérieur de Musique à Tunis for their interpretation of Bani Watani for the introduction and conclusion of this podcast.

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Suggested Readings


Hanau Santini, Ruth. 2018. Limited Statehood in Post-revolutionary Tunisia. Citizenship, Economy and Security. London: Palgrave.

Hanau Santini, Ruth. 2017. "A New Regional Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa: Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited." The International Spectator. 52(4): 92-111.

Hanau Santini, Ruth and Abel Polese (Eds). Forthcoming. Hybrid Governance in the Middle East and Africa. London: Routledge.

Hanau Santini, Ruth and Simone Tholens. 2018. "Security assistance in a post-interventionist era: the impact on limited statehood in Tunisia and Lebanon." Small Wars and Insurgencies. 29(3): 481-514.

Hanau Santini, Ruth and Francesco N. Moro. 2017. "Between hierarchy and heterarchy: Post Arab uprisings' civil-military relations and the Arab state." Mediterranean Politics: 1-20.