Profile

Debora V. Malito joined XJTLU in 2018 as Assistant Professor. 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 intersects critical approaches in the study of sovereignty and international intervention. Current research projects concern: the unmaking of political orders through interventionist projects and the political economy of measuring governance.

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 2019) and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance (2018) with G. Umbach and N. Bhuta.

She welcome PhD applications in the following areas:

- International Intervention and Sovereignty
- Africa-China relations
- Global Governance and Development
- New modes and Metrics of Governance