Mario Savina
Associate Junior Researcher
Current Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome, Osmed (S.Pio V)
Mario Savina is a researcher and analyst. He is a PhD candidate in “History and Culture of Europe” at the Sapienza University of Rome where he works on the expulsion of Italians from Libya in 1970 by Gaddafi compared with the exit of the Italians from Tunisia a few years earlier.
He is an associate of the Observatory on the Mediterranean of the Institute of political studies “San Pio V” and, moreover, he collaborates with the Association of Italians Repatriated from Libya (AIRL) and with the Centro Studi Geopolitica. Savina holds a Second level Master in Policies and Management in the Middle East and North Africa from LUISS School of Government in Rome, and another in Geopolitics and Global Security from Sapienza. Previously, he holds a master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development and a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages.
He is the author of several articles and analyses concerning topics of his interest.
Areas of expertise: Political, economic and security dynamics in Libya, Tunisia and Algeria; migration in the central Mediterranean; North Africa-Europe relations; Islamism; democratic transition; human rights.
Selected bibliography:
- Libia Oggi, in Atlante Geopolitico del Mediterraneo 2023, Bordeaux edizioni, Rome 2023
- Tunisia Oggi, in Atlante Geopolitico del Mediterraneo 2023, Bordeaux edizioni, Rome 2023
- ZEE e Gas nel Mediterraneo: l’intesa turco-libica, in OSMED, Paper 3 -2022
- L’influenza turca in Libia: implicazioni politiche, economiche e strategiche, in La proiezione esterna della Turchia di Erdogan for OPI, Approfondimento 196, October 2022
- La Costituzione e il ruolo dell’Islam in Libia dall’indipendenza alla caduta di Moammar Gheddafi: origini e prospettive, in Stato. Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, ISSN 1971-8543, Fascicolo n. 18 October 2022
- L’Egitto alla prova degli Accordi di Abramo. Perplessità interne e opportunità regionali, in P. Baldelli, E. Tosti Di Stefano (a cura di), Dalla competizione all’integrazione nel Medio Oriente-Nord Africa. L’impatto degli Accordi di Abramo sugli equilibri regionali, Nuova Cultura, Rome 2022
- L’Algeria tra sviluppo militare e politica estera equilibrata, in Rivista Marittima, Ministero della Marina, Rome, April 2022
- La politica filoaraba di Aldo Moro tra Gheddafi e i profughi italiani (1969–1972), in D. Lombardi, Profughi, Aracne, Rome, 2020