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1 Curriculum Vitae Niccolò Petrelli Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street Stanford California, USA Academic Position Post-Doctoral Fellow Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Research Project: Counterinsurgency: A Reassessment (September 2013-August 2015). Mentor: Prof. David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Political Science. Education PhD: Political Science, Department of International Studies Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy, Dissertation Title: Strategic Culture, Adaptation and War: Israeli Counter-insurgency and Struggle against Hamas Supervisors: Prof. Leopoldo Nuti - Full professor of History of International Relations, University of Roma Tre; Prof. Dima Adamsky, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlyia. Master of Arts: International Relations, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Thesis title: October 1973: the Yom Kippur War. Supervisor: Prof. Leopoldo Nuti Summa cum Laude

edu Academic Position Post-Doctoral Fellow Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Research Project:

2 Bachelor of Arts: Political Sciences, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Awards and Fellowships 9 Months Research scholarship at the University of Haifa, jointly awarded for the years 2008 by the Italian and the Israeli foreign Ministries (Declined). Publications, Presentations and Abstracts Peer-reviewed publications: Conceptual Innovations and Counterinsurgency: The Israel Defense Forces in the al-aqsa Intifada, WARning (Forthcoming - May 2015). Deterring Insurgents: Culture, Adaptation and the Evolution of Israeli Counterinsurgency, Journal of Strategic Studies, 36/5 (October 2013). The Missing Dimension: IDF Special Operations Forces and Strategy in the Second Lebanon War, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 23/1 (2012). Presentations: Battlefield Lessons and Doctrinal Innovations: The French Army and the Doctrine de Guerre Révolutionnaire, Paper to be presented at the 28 th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Perugia, September 11-13, Counterinsurgency: A Conceptual Reassessment, CISAC Social Science Seminar, Stanford University, October 31, 2013.

Publications, Presentations and Abstracts Peer-reviewed publications: Conceptual Innovations and Counterinsurgency: The Israel Defense Forces in the al-aqsa Intifada, WARning (Forthcoming - May 2015).

3 Counterinsurgency: An Operational Reassessment, Paper presented at the 27 th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Florence, September 14-15, Strategic Culture and Theories of Victory: Israel and Apartheid South Africa in Comparative Perspective, Sapienza University of Rome, July, 1, Deterrence and Coercion in Counterterrorism: Israel s Targeted Killings against Hamas, University of Trento, March, 23, Hearts and Minds or Coercion? Civilians in Modern Counter-Insurgency Operations, Seminar Human Rights and Armed Conflicts, University of Roma Tre, October- December Adaptation in War and Emulation of Military Practices: The US Army, the Israel Defense Forces Counterinsurgency Experience and the Rise of the Iraqi Insurgency , Paper presented at the 26 th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Roma Tre, September 13-15, The Evolution of Israeli Counterinsurgency, , Second Cadet/Graduate Conference Terrorism, Insurgency and Asymmetric Conflict, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, March 26-27, Constructivist Approaches to Security Studies, Strategic Culture and the Israeli Approach to Counterinsurgency, Seminar International History and International Relations Theory, University of Roma Tre, March-May, The Rise of the Concept of Counterinsurgency in the US Foreign Policy, Seminar The Cold War and Its Impact, University of Roma Tre, May-June 2010.

Deterrence and Coercion in Counterterrorism: Israel s Targeted Killings against Hamas, University of Trento, March, 23, 2013. Hearts and Minds or Coercion?

4 Book Reviews: David Kilcullen, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of Urban Guerrilla, To be Published on H-Net Benny Morris, 1948: a History of the First Arab-Israeli War (London, 2008) on Mondo Contemporaneo, no.2 (2008). David Grossman, With the Eyes of the Enemy (Milano, 2007), on Mondo Contemporaneo, no. 3 (2008). Academic Translations: Translation of Minute of the Meeting between Fanfani and Khruscev (Moscow 1962), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February Nir Arielli, Fascist Italy Foreign Policy towards Palestinian Arabs, , Mondo Contemporaneo, no.2 (2006). Research Experience Visiting Scholar, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) Herzliya, Israel, October 31, March, 31, Visiting Scholar at the ICT. Internal research project on structure and aim of Hamas. Research on Israeli Counterterrorism. Research Fellow, Military Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defense, Roma, Served in the Italian Army with the rank of soldier as military research fellow at the Military Center for Strategic Studies (Ce.Mi.S.S.) conducting researches on the following topics: Counterinsurgency and Asymmetric Conflict; Private Military Companies; Development, Underdevelopment and Armed Conflict; Resource Geography and Conflicts.

Academic Translations: Translation of Minute of the Meeting between Fanfani and Khruscev (Moscow 1962), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February 2011.

5 Teaching Experience 2012 Lecturer: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (seminar), Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, Spring/Summer The seminar aimed to provide an overview of the political and military aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from the aftermath of the 1967 War. Lecturer/Teaching Assistant: Culture and Politics of the Contemporary Islam, Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, Fall/Winter Lecturer for the course third subsection: Structure and ideology of Al-Qaeda Lecturer: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (seminar), Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, Fall/Winter The seminar aimed to provide an overview of the political and military aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from the aftermath of the 1967 War. Teaching Assistant: Culture and Politics of the Contemporary Islam, Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, Fall/Winter the course aimed at providing an overview of the main features of contemporary Islamic political thought, focusing particularly on phenomena related to radical Islam, such as Al-Qaeda the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Teaching Assistant: History and Institutions of Asian and African Countries, Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre Spring/Summer the Course aimed at providing an overview of the 20 th century history of the African and Middle Eastern Countries, with a particular focus on the transition from colonial rule to independence.

Lecturer/Teaching Assistant: Culture and Politics of the Contemporary Islam, Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, Fall/Winter 2010-2011.

6 Research Interests Strategy; Military Theory and Strategic Thought; Civil Wars; Counterinsurgency; Strategic Culture; Constructivist approaches to security studies. Other Nuclear Proliferation International History Project Boot Camp 2013 alumnus (Allumiere, Italy, June 26, 2013-July, 6, 2013) Fieldwork Israel and West Bank: May 2011; October-December 2011; January- March Language Skills Italian (mother tongue) English (Excellent) French (Excellent) Hebrew (Basic)

Other Nuclear Proliferation International History Project Boot Camp 2013 alumnus (Allumiere, Italy, June 26,

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