Francesco Cavatorta

PUBLICATON(S)

Direction d’ouvrages collectifs

• Cavatorta, F., O’Malley, Eoin et Baturo, Alex (dirs.), Handbook on Opposition Politics, London, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025 (sous presse).
• Cavatorta, F. et Merone, Fabio, Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia: A Gramscian Analysis, London, I.B. Tauris, 2025 (sous presse).
• Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca et Cavatorta, Francesco (dirs.), Personalism and Personalistic Regimes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Resta, Valeria (dirs.), Handbook on Elections in the Middle East and North Africa, London, Routledge, 2023.
• Durac, Vincent et Cavatorta, Francesco (dirs.), Politics and Governance in the Middle East, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2022.
• Topak, Ozgun, Mekouar, Merouan et Cavatorta, Francesco (dirs.), New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, Storm, Lise et Resta, Valeria (dirs.), Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, 2020.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et El Issawi, Fatima (dirs.), The Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity, Gingko Press/University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Clark, Janine (dirs.), The methodological and ethical challenges of doing research in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Storm, Lise (dirs.), Political Parties in the Arab world, Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, Abbott, Pamela et Teti, Andrea, The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: Social, Political and Economic Transformations, Palgrave, 2018.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Merone, Fabio (dirs.), Salafism after the Arab Awakening. Contending with people’s power, Hurst & Co., 2017.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Durac, Vincent, Politics and Governance in the Middle East, Palgrave, 2015.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Ozzano, Luca (dirs.), Religiously oriented parties and democratization, London, Routledge, 2014.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Aarts, Paul (dirs.), Civil society activism in Syria and Iran, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 2013.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, State-society relations under authoritarian constraints, London, Routledge, 2012.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Durac, Vincent, Civil Society and Democratisation in the Arab world: the Dynamics of Activism, London, Routledge, 2010.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Durac, Vincent (dirs.), The foreign policies of the EU and the US in North Africa. Converging or diverging dynamics?, London, Routledge, 2009.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition. Democracy betrayed?, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Volpi, Frédéric (dirs.), Forgetting Democratization? Recasting power and authority in a plural Muslim world, London, Routledge, 2007.

Chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs

• Cavatorta, F., Merone, F., Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia: A Gramscian Analysis, Bloomsbury, 2025. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/rethinking-islamic-politics-in-tunisia-9780755656417/
• Cavatorta, Francesco, « The functions of parties in the MENA: the state perspective. From irrelevance to punching bag? », in Storm, Lise (dir.), Political Parties of the Global South, de Gruyter/Brill, 2025 (sous presse).
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Turlione, Paride, « Different roots, same trajectory? Socialist and Islamist parties in comparative perspective », in Mostafa, Ebtisam (dir.), Revisiting the Study of Political Islam: One Decade after the 2011 MENA Uprisings, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2025 (sous presse).
• Resta, Valeria et Cavatorta, Francesco, « Political parties in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia », in Joffé, George (dir.), Handbook of the Modern Maghrib, London, Routledge, 2023, pp. 515-528.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, « The 2011 uprisings: causes and consequences », in Joffé, George (dir.), Handbook of the Modern Maghrib, London, Routledge, 2023.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Bonci, Alessandra, « The Maghreb Region: Waithood, the myth of youth bulges and the reality of frustrated aspirations », in Goerres, Achim et Vanhuysse, Peter (dirs.), Global Political Demography: the politics of population change, Palgrave, 2021.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Marzo, Pietro, « An exceptional context for a debate on international relations? Toward a synthetic approach to the study of the MENA’s international politics », in Hinnebusch, Raymond et Gani, Jasmine (dirs.), The Routledge Handbook to the Middle East and North African State and States System, London, Routledge, 2019.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, « Overcoming Exceptionalism – Party Politics and Voting Behavior in the Middle East and North Africa », in Sadiki, Larbi (dir.), Handbook of Middle East Politics: Interdisciplinary Inscriptions, London, Routledge, 2019.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Turcotte, Pierre-Michel, « The European Union and Syria: from constructive engagement to marginalization and back? », in Hinnebusch, Raymond et Saouli, Adham (dirs.), The War for Syria, London, Routledge, 2019.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Marzo, Pietro, « The demise of the Arab Strongman? », in Akbardazeh, Shahram (dir.), Handbook of the International Relations of the Middle East, London, Routledge, 2019.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Bonci, Alessandra, « The politics of presidential term limits in Tunisia », in Baturo, Alex et Elgie, Robert (dirs.), The Politics of Presidential Term Limits, Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Merone, Fabio, « Islamist parties and transformation in Tunisia and Morocco », in Abi-Mershad, Osama (dir.), Social Currents in North Africa, Hurst, 2018.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, « The Plurality of Tunisian Islamism: between Muslim democrats and Salafism », in Rivetti, Paola et Kraetzschmar, Hendrik (dirs.), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Rivetti, Paola, « Algeria », in Øverland, Indra (dir.), Public Brainpower: Civil society and natural resources management, Palgrave, 2018.

Article(s)

• Cavatorta, F. et Szmolka, Inmaculada, « Authoritarian Resilience in MENA Countries in the Era of Autocratization: a comparative area study of authoritarian deepening », Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediteraneos, Vol. 37, 2024, pp. 214-250.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Cavdar, Gamze, « Research Symposium: Left-Wing Politics in the Middle East and North Africa », APSA-MENA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2023, pp. 55-105.
• Cavatorta, F. et Kraetzschmar, Hendrik, « Multiparty Coalition Governments in the Arab World: An Introduction », Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023, pp. 255-263.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Kraetzschmar, Hendrik, « Multiparty cabinets and coalition governance in the Arab Middle East and North Africa », Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023, pp. 320-344.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Amghar, Samir, « Salafism in the contemporary age: Wiktorowicz revisited », Contemporary Islam, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023, pp. 195-204.
• Cavatorta, F. et Clark, J., « Political and social mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa after the 2011 uprisings », Globalizations, 2022, pp. 1-14.
• Francesco Cavatorta et Nidhal Mekki, « How can we agree on anything in this environment? Tunisian media, transition and elite compromises: a view from Parliament », International Journal of Press/Politics, 26 (4), 2021, pp. 822-841.
• Paola Rivetti et Francesco Cavatorta, « Revolution and counter-revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. A Global perspective on regional politics and knowledge production », Partecipazione e Conflitto, 14 (2), 2021, pp. 511-529.
• Francesco Cavatorta et Stefano Torelli, « From victim to hangman? Ennahda, Salafism and the Tunisian Transition », Religions, 12 (2), 2021.
• Francesco Cavatorta, « Lessons from political transitions in the Arab world: A citizens’ perspective », Orient, 61 (2), 2021, pp. 7-15.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Resta, Valeria, « Beyond quietism: party institutionalization, Salafism and the economy », Politics & Religion, 2020.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Amghar, Samir, « Islamism, Islamist parties and economic policy-making in the neo-liberal age », Politics & Religion, 2020.
• Cavatorta, Francesco, Teti, Andrea et Abbott, Pamela, « Do Arabs really want democracy? Evidence from four countries », Democratization, Vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 645-665.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Tahchi, Belgacem, « La politique économique de la résilience autoritaire en Algérie: l’énigme de la diversification économique », Etudes Internationales, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2019, pp. 7-38.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Hill, Jon, « Dimensions of security in the Maghreb », Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 55, no. 2, 2019, pp. 177-181.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Wegner, Eva, « Revisiting the Islamist-Secular divide: Parties and Voters in the Arab World », International Political Science Review, vol. 40, no. 4, 2019, pp. 558-575.
• Cavatorta, Francesco et Zardo, Federica, « Friends will be friends? External-domestic interactions in EU-Tunisia and EU-Morocco security cooperation after the uprisings », International Politics, Vol. 56, no. 5, 2019, pp. 678-696.

PROJET(S) DE RECHERCHE

Chercheur(se) principal(e) :

• Cavatorta, F., « The values and attitudes of members of Islamist parties in Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia », CRSH, 2020-2023.
• Cavatorta, F., « The role of transnational advocacy networks in Tunisian transition to democracy », MITACS Inc., Bourse de recherche Mitacs Globalink, 2017.
• Cavatorta, F., « Épreuves d’État et épreuves de la Police en Tunisie », MITACS Inc., Bourse de recherche Mitacs Globalink, 2016.
• Cavatorta, F., « Institut québécois des hautes études internationales (HEI) », Institutionnel – BDR, Institut d’études supérieures, 2014-2020.
• Cavatorta, F., « Examine political parties in Tunisia (La modération des partis politiques islamistes) », 2014.
• Cavatorta, F., « Examine the rise of Salafism in the wake of the Arab Awakening (Le Salafisme dans le monde arabe après le printemps arabe) », Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2013-2014.

Co-chercheur(se) :

• Cavatorta, F., « To examine social and political transformations in the Arab world following the Arab Spring (Transformations politiques et sociales dans le monde arabe) », European Union – FP 7, 2013-2016.
• Cavatorta, F., « Two-day conference on geo-strategic developments in the Middle East and Africa », Conseil de recherche en science humaine, avec Prof. Marie Brossier, 2014.

COMMUNICATION(S)

Conférences

• Cavatorta, F., « Coalition governments in the Arab World », St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, February 2024.
• Cavatorta, F., « Salafism: contending with people’s power », Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, February 2024.
• Cavatorta, F., « Revolution and counter-revolution in the Middle East and North Africa », Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, February 2022, via Zoom.
• Cavatorta, F., « Political Parties : dynamics of offer and demand on the Arab electoral market », Durham University, UK, juin 2021, via Zoom.
• Cavatorta, F., « The success of the Tunisian transition to democracy? », Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University, 3 avril 2021, via Zoom.
• Cavatorta, F., « Twenty years of reforms in Morocco : a view from below », Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, USA, novembre 2019.
• Cavatorta, F., « How do we agree on anything in this environment? The Tunisian media landscape and the transition to democracy. A view from Parliament », King’s College London, septembre 2019, via Zoom.
• Cavatorta, F., « Beyond elections : Tunisian democracy seven years on », Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, USA, novembre 2018.
• Cavatorta, F., « Revisiting political parties and voters in the Arab world », University of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark, septembre 2018.
• Cavatorta, F., « Can the last one out please switch the lights off? Survey data and migration in the Arab world », Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, septembre 2018.