Musu, Costanza
Dr. Costanza Musu is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Politics (Palgrave). She obtained her PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Subsequently she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Richmond University (London-UK). She has been a consultant for the Military Center for Strategic Studies – Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CeMiSS-CASD), the think tank of the Italian Ministry of Defence. She has published extensively on Western policies towards the Middle East. Her current research, supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant, focuses on the fight against the illicit trafficking of antiquities looted from conflict areas in the Middle East.
Research Interests: European Union foreign and security policy, EU policy towards the Middle East conflict, Transatlantic Relations in the field of security and defense EU-NATO relations, International security, and Conflict resolution
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Ottawa |
| Fields of Expertise: | Defence and Security EU Foreign Policy and External Relations International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| Research groups: | RG ECSA-C Foreign Policy and Security,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | c.musu@uottawa.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, Italian |
| Publications: | Musu, C. (2016) ‘European Union Policy towards the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. The Quicksands of Politics.’ Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 288 pp. First edition hardback 2010. Second edition paperback revised and updated 2016. Musu, C. (2012) ‘Europe, the Southern Neighbourhood and the Middle East. Struggling for coherence’, in ‘The Routledge Handbook of European Security’, by Sven Biscop & Richard Whitman (eds.) Routledge. Mediterranean Politics: review of the book ‘Lobbying in EU Foreign Policy-Making. The case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ by Benedetta Voltolini, Oxon and New York: Routledge 2016 Musu, C. and Leblond, P., (2017) ‘The EU and Canada: the “other” transatlantic relation. Published (in Spanish) in Politica Exterior, n. 179, Sept-Oct Musu, C. (2016) ‘Looted Cultural Assets and the Financing of Terrorism,’ Report commissioned by Global Affairs Canada. Musu, C. (2017) Canada and the Middle East. The foreign policy of a middle power” in Michael Hawes and Christopher Kirkey (eds.), Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World, Oxford University Press. Musu, C. (2012) ‘Canada and the MENA Region: The Foreign Policy of a Middle Power’, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Routledge, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 30–40 Musu, C. (2016) ‘Looted Cultural Assets and the Financing of Terrorism,’ Report commissioned by Global Affairs Canada. |
