Federico Donelli

Dr. Federico Donelli is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Trieste, Italy. His research fields have covered international politics and security of the Middle East and Africa, focusing on the foreign policy of the different regional and extra-regional players in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of multiple articles appearing in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Small Wars & Insurgencies, and The International Spectator. He is also author of Turkey in Africa. Turkey’s strategic involvement in sub-Saharan Africa (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Power Competition in the Red Sea. Testing the Post-Liberal International Order (Bloomsbury, 2025).

He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Istituto di Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) in Milan, Senior Scholar Associate at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Orion Policy Institute (OPI) in Washington D.C. He is a consultant on political and security issues to a variety of governments, private companies, and international organizations.