Roberto Roccu joined the Department of European & International Studies at King’s College in September 2012. He holds a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before moving to the UK, he completed a BA in Political Science at the University of Sassari and an MA in International Studies at the University of Bologna-Forlì. He is a native speaker of Italian and Sardinian, is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and has a steadily improving command of Modern Standard Arabic (and is aiming for fluency there too).

Roberto’s research is located in the tradition of critical International Political Economy (IPE), with a regional focus on the Middle East and the Mediterranean. His work looks at this region as an integral part of the global political economy, thus seeking to bridge IPE literature, which too often sees the Middle East through the lens of oil, and the literature on the political economy of the Middle East, historically dominated by the area studies community and not infrequently neglecting the global entanglements that have significantly transformed the region, especially over the past half century.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25