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Elisa

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DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center and Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Research Areas:

Risk Analysis
Benin
Elections, governance and state evolution
Turkey / Middle East and Africa relations

Sub-Saharan Africa Center

Turkey/Middle East Program

Turkey 2050 Program

KAMPALA, UGANDA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2012. A look at life on the side streets of Kampala, Uganda

Governing the Urban Transition in Africa

A graduate from Sciences Po Bordeaux in African Studies, Elisa Domingues dos Santos specialized first in West Africa, particularly in governance issues in Benin, where she lived while working for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Cotonou and for which she co-produced an analysis of the Beninese trade union landscape.

With experience in project management in the development aid and advocacy sector, she joined Ifri from March 2021 to February 2023 as Project Officer for the Sub-Saharan Africa Center and the Turkey/Middle East Program then as an Associate Research Fellow from May 2023.

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Publications

Studies

Mevlana Museum, Whirling Sufi Dervish - Konya, Turkey, July 29, 2012

"A Capital City Will Always Be a Capital City”: Konya’s Rise Under the AKP’s Rule

27 March 2024

While the May 2023 parliamentary and presidential elections looked as a difficult test for the flagging Islamo-conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP), they eventually held on to power, demonstrating their remarkable foothold in the Turkish context. The party notably recorded one of its highest scores in Konya, confirming the massive and uninterrupted support of this two-million inhabitants central Anatolian city for Turkish political Islam.

Elisa DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS Jules LIAUD Dorothée SCHMID

Papers

Ottoman remains at Suakin, Sudan, July 2022

Sudan in Turkey’s African Geopolitics: A Sotto Voce Experience in a Coveted Region

15 November 2023

Since the launch of the Opening Plan to Africa in 2003, Turkey's African policy has spread to the whole of the African continent, where its involvement is distinguished by its scope and diversity.

Elisa DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS

Papers

Emmanuel Macron and Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paris (January 2020)

The French-Greek Partnership: Beyond the Eastern Mediterranean

23 February 2022

The bilateral defense agreement signed by France and Greece in September 2021 confirms the strategic turn of the relationship between the two countries. It was already unveiled in 2020 when Paris supported Athens to counter Turkish maritime operations that France and Greece considered very hostile.

Dorothée SCHMID Elisa DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS

Studies

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in 2018

Chinese Influences in Africa. 1. The Political and Diplomatic Tools of the "Great Developing Country"

17 November 2021

China and Africa have enjoyed a strong relationship since the wave of African independences in the 1960s. Nevertheless, relations between China and Africa have significantly expanded since the late 1990s and have been fueled by a growing discourse centered on a “win-win” partnership between China and Africa.

Jean-Pierre CABESTAN Elisa DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS Zhao Alexandre HUANG Philippe LE BILLON Thierry VIRCOULON

Editorials