The EU must seize on the strategic opportunity presented by the coronavirus pandemic to take the initiative away from Russia and Turkey in Libya.
Stefano Marcuzzi is no longer with Carnegie Europe.
Stefano Marcuzzi was a visiting researcher at Carnegie Europe, where he focuses on EU-NATO cooperation, in particular on the Mediterranean and Libya. His broader research interests include international security and defense cooperation and EU-NATO responses to cyber and hybrid threats.
Stefano is also a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University College in Dublin and an analyst at the NATO Defense College Foundation in Rome. He is a member of the Globalising and Localising the Great War Group (GLGW); the Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG); the British Commission for Military History; the Changing Character of War Programme (CCW); and, since 2016, an external fellow at Boston University.
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