Nathalie Tocci is a Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome. She received her PhD in International Relations at the LSE. She was a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels from 1999 to 2003. There she worked on EU-Turkey relations, the Cyprus conflict, the conflicts of the South Caucasus and the Middle East. Her current research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Her recent publications include:  Nathalie Tocci (ed.), Conditionality, impact and prejudice in EU-Turkey relations : IAI-TEPAV report, Istituto affari internazionali, Rome 2007 (IAI Quaderni. English series ; 9)   The EU and Conflict Resolution: Promoting Peace in the Backyard, Routledge, London 2007   Towards Accession Negotiations: Turkey's Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges Ahead, with A.Evin, EUI, Florence, 2005   EU Accession Dynamics and Conflict Resolution: Catalyzing Peace or Consolidating Partition in Cyprus?, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004   Europeanization and Conflict Resolution: Case Studies from the Divided Periphery, with B. Coppieters et al., Academic Press, Gent, 2004.