Dr. Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu is an Alumni Research Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), University of Tunis, and a Research Assistant at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. His research focuses on security, development, and migration policies in postcolonial settings. He has published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, L’Année du Maghreb, and Surveillance & Society. His first monograph, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context: Security, Democracy, and Religion in Tunisia, is forthcoming with Routledge.