Mona Saleh, M.A.

ResearcherMona Saleh, M.A.

Room: LS 118b
Phone: +49 (0)203-379-3974
E-Mail: mona.saleh[at]uni-due.de

▶ Research Focus
▶ Selected Publications
► Research Projects
► Transfer Activities
▶ Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

  • International and Regional Organizations (particularly the African Union & the League of Arab States)
  • Regime Complexity & Institutional Overlap
  • Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation in the Middle East.

Coutries and Regions

  • Middle East
  • North Africa

Publications

▶ Saleh, Mona 2023: Legitimation by Differentiation: How Do International Organizations Claim Legitimacy in Complexity? Working Paper. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4476116

▶ Attia, Hana / Saleh, Mona 2021: The Political Deadlock on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, GIGA Focus Africa, No. 4.

▶ Saleh, Mona / Finaud, Marc / Robinson, Tony 2021: Is There a New Chance for Arms Control in the Middle East, Arms Control Today.

▶ Saleh, Mona / Finaud, Marc / Robinson, Tony 2021: The Middle East: Is There Light at the End of the Long Corridor, Pressenza.

▶ Saleh, Mona 2018: A New Egyptian Track II Approach to the WMD/DVs Free Zone in the Middle East/Gulf, Policy Forum issued by the Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East (APOME) and Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSO).

▶ Saleh, Mona 2015: Constitution-making in Transition: A Comparative Study of the 2012 Egyptian and 2014 Tunisian constitutions, (Master’s Thesis), AUC Knowledge Fountain.

Research Projects

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► African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)

Transfer Activities

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Online, Blog and Media Contributions 

Saleh, Mona/Worrall, James 2023: Converging Interests, Diverging Realities: Arab League–EU Cooperation. GIGA Focus Middle East, 6. https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/converging-interests-diverging-realities-arab-league-eu-cooperation

Curriculum Vitae

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Since 01/2020
Doctoral Research Fellow at the GIGA Insititute of Middle East Studies and the University of Lüneburg

01/2020-06/2022
Research Fellow in the project "The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap" (Prof. Tobias Lenz), University of Lüneburg

09/2019-12/2019
Mediterranean Dialogue (MED) Fellow at NATO Defense College (NDC) Rome, Italy

11/2018-02/2019
Research Fellow in the project "The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap", University of Göttingen

07/2016-08/2018
Reporter-researcher at the Cairo Review of Global Affiars in Cairo, Egypt

04/2014-09/2015
Research Assistant at the Global Affairs Program des Department of Public Policy and Administration, American University in Cairo, Egypt

10/2013-02/2014
Research Assistant at the Religion and Peacemaking Program, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC, USA

10/2011-11/2011
Visiting Fellow at Roger Williams Universtiy in Bristol, USA 

Education:

2016-2018
M.A. International Relations and Political Sciences - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland

09/2012-02/2015
M.A. of Global Affairs - School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt