International interventions: interdisciplinary approaches and transversal lines of inquiry | Team

Monica Fagioli is an anthropologist and special needs teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research (USA), and her research has studied the techno-politics of intervention in Somaliland/Somalia, focusing on the role of the Somali diaspora in rebuilding the state in Somaliland. Her PhD research received funding from the Fulbright Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the European-South Africa International Development Fellowship. She is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively titled "Mobilizing the Somali diaspora: state-building, tecno-politics and development intervention ".

Debora V. Malito is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University (PRC). She completed her PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan and held research positions at the European University Institute and University of Cape Town. Her work surround questions of sovereignty and inequality in international politics. Her work on contemporary interventionism investigates how the politics of intervention in Libya and Somalia shapes sovereignty and orders transformations, with a focus on issues of political partisanship, exclusionary reconciliation projects, and instrumentality of moral justifications. Her interests engage also issues of knowledge formation, looking at the role of governance and development indicators in the reordering of states and political orders. Her publications have appeared in journals such as International Peacekeeping, Politikon and Third World Quarterly; she is the author of Destabilising Interventions in Somalia (Routledge 2020) and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance (2018) with G. Umbach and N. Bhuta.

Weiyi Zhang graduated in 2021 from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University with a BA in International Relations. She is currently working as Research Assistant for the project “International intervention: interdisciplinary approaches and transversal lines of enquiry”.Previously, she has assisted with other projects in the department of IR such as the political economy of central banking and market-based finance in China; CIA-MI6 covert action in communist Albania, and China’s global development and strategy and development finance in East Africa.  

Zhiyue Tang is a Research Assistant responsible for the web contents and visual materials of the project “International intervention: interdisciplinary approaches and transversal lines of enquiry”.  She also works as a Student E-learning Coordinator, aiming to improve user experience of university’s online learning platform. She earned the University Academic Award in the 2019-2020 academic year. Currently she is a third-year industrial design student at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University.