Olivia Glombitza is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and a fellow for the project ‘Reconfiguration of Transnational Actors & Elites in the MENA Region’ based at UAB. She holds a master’s degree in Media, Communication and Culture from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a master’s degree in Intercultural Competence and Conflict Management from the University of Verona. Her PhD dealt with symbolic politics at the intersection of domestic politics and foreign policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey.
She has led projects on the ongoing transformation of the Republic of Turkey and the role of ideational factors in foreign policy and peacebuilding in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, both supported by the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP). Her research is located at the intersection of domestic politics and foreign policy and her research interests include the history, contemporary politics and international relations of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf; the domestic and foreign policies of Iran, Turkey and Qatar; symbolic politics; relations of power; conceptualizations of ideology and identity; media representation; and narrative and discourse analysis.
Her research has been published by Iranian Studies, Third World Quarterly, The International Spectator, Turkish Studies, Global Discourse, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as well as Edinburgh University Press and IB Tauris.
Twitter: @OliviaGlombitza