Marina Calculli
Guest Researcher
- Name
- Dr. M. Calculli
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.calculli@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3585-5549
Marina Calculli is Lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. From 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2025, she will be on leave from Leiden to take up a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris.
Research
My research sits at the intersection of International Relations, History, Law and Political Theory. I concentrate on Middle East security, political violence, and the role of religious and secular ideas in world politics.
In my previous projects, I have explored instances of cooperation and rivalry between states and Islamist actors in the contemporary international system, with a focus on the legitimacy of the state, the rise and role of non-state armed groups and the moral justification of political violence.
My current project investigates how states negotiate their secular and religious visions within the United Nations and beyond.
Teaching and Research Interests
Sovereignty beyond the West; Political Violence; Non-state armed groups; Secularism and Religion in World Politics.
Grants and Awards
- 2022-2025, European Commission, Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship.
- 2020, Leiden University Fund. Research traineeship Programme.
- 2018, Italian Ministry of Education. Italian National Scientific Qualification [Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale] for the role of Associate Professor of Political Science.
- 2016-17, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Senior Common Room Membership.
- 2015-2016, Fulbright Commission. Fulbright research scholarship (1 December 2015-31 July 2017).
- 2014-2017, American Political Science Association. APSA-MENA Fellowship.
Guest Researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Calculli M. (2023), Mirroring (de-)securitization: from stigmatisation to rehabilitation of Syria in the Arab region. Lancaster: Richardson Institute.
- Calculli M. (2021) How Civil Wars Turn into Quagmires . Review of: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (2020), Quagmire in civil war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. International Spectator 56(3): 162-164.
- Calculli M. (2021), Self-determination: the story of the liberal appropriation of a socialist principle. In: Fassi E. & Parsi V.E. (Eds.), The Liberal World Order and Beyond no. 64. Milan : Vita&Pensiero. 137-149.
- Calculli M. (2020), Reconceiving the struggle betweent non-state armed organizations, the state and 'the international' in the Middle East. In: Sadiki L. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics. London: Routledge. 419-431.
- Calculli M. (14 April 2020), Life vs Profit: the real ‘war’ in times of coronavirus. Open Democracy.
- Calculli M. (2020), Between the battleground and the ballot box: armed political parties in the Middle East. In: Cavatorta F., Storm L. & Resta V. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Routledge. 356-368.
- Calculli M. (2020), Self-Determination at All Costs: Explaining the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah Axis, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi 54(2): 95-118.
- Calculli M. (2019), Middle East Security: The politics of violence after the 2003 Iraq War. In: Fawcett L. (Ed.), International Relations of the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Calculli M. (2018), Come uno Stato. Hizbullah e la mimesi strategica. Milan: Il Mulino.
- Calculli M. (2018), Mirage of Retrenchment: Obama and the Syrian Conflict. In: Dian M., Clementi M. & Pisciotta B. (Eds.), US Foreign Policy in a Challenging World. Building Order on Shifting Foundations. New York: Springer. 279-296.
- Calculli M. (2017), Hezbollah's Lebanese Strategy in the Syrian Conflict. Fiesole: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
- Calculli M. (20 June 2017), The invisible violence of 'soft power': a critique of Joseph Nye. il Manifesto.
- Calculli M. (2017), The liberation of Mosul in the Middle Eastern Balance of Power: LediPublishing.
- Calculli M. (15 April 2017), The Murder Of Giulio Regeni and The Perils Of Supporting Dictators.
- Calculli M. & Strazzari F. (2017), Terrore sovrano. Stato e jihad nell'era post-liberale. Bologna: Il Mulino.
- Calculli M. (2016), (Il)legitimate violence and the State: understanding the liaison between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces. .
- Calculli M. & Hamadi S. (Eds.) (2016), Esilio Siriano. Migrazioni e Responsabilità Politiche. Milano: Guerini e Associati.
- Calculli M. (2016), Middle East Security: Conflict and securitization of identities. In: Fawcett L. (Ed.), International Relations of the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 218-235.
- Calculli M. (2015), Sub-regions and security in the Middle East: 'hierarchical interdependence' in Gulf-Levant relations. In: Monier E.S. (Ed.), Narratives of Regional Threat: (in)security, (in)stability and the Middle East. London: Palgrave McMillan. 41-58.
- Calculli M. (2014), National prerogatives in multilateral peacekeeping: Italy in Lebanese perception and Rome’s role within UNIFIL II, Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée : 201-214.
- Calculli M. & Legrenzi M. (2013), Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East: Options and Challenges: International Peace Institute.
- Calculli M. (2013), Societal Fragmentation and Military Systems in the Arab World: Syria's Civil-Military Relations in the Wake of the Arab Uprising of 2011, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche = The Italian Journal of Public Policy 1: 101-130.