Andrea Teti is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Salerno, Italy, and Managing Editor of Middle East Critique. He has published extensively on EU-MENA relations, democratisation, authoritarianism, on the politics of Social Science, and on knowledge production on the Middle East. He is lead author of The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia (2018) and Democratization Against Democracy: How EU Policy Fails the Middle East (2020).