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Benedetta Berti is Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO. She is also Associate Researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Berti is an Eisenhower Global Fellow and a TED Senior Fellow, and in the past decade has held research and teaching positions at West Point, The Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University, among others. Berti is the author of four books, including Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her work and research has appeared in many publications, including Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the Wall Street Journal The New York Times; as well as in Civil Wars, Democratization, Government & Opposition, Mediterranean Politics, the Middle East Journal, Parameters, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence. She holds a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Bologna, and a MA and PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School (Tufts University).