Dr. Tobias Schumacher is a German political scientist and an expert on Euro-Mediterranean affairs, foreign policy and Middle Eastern Politics. After having studied Political Science, Sociology and Business Administration at the Universities of Freiburg, Basel, Edinburgh and Mainz, Schumacher received his M.A. and Ph.D in 1998 and 2002 respectively from the University of Mainz. Schumacher held research and teaching positions at the University of Mainz, the Florence-based European University Institute, the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission (EuroMeSCo) and the Lisbon University Institute. He was awarded numerous scholarships and was a Jean Monnet Fellow and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, where he also worked as Research Fellow and Scientific Coordinator of its Mediterranean Programme. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) in Portugal. He is the author of more than 80 books, book chapters and articles in academic journals and a regular media contributor. Since May 2010, he is the co-editor of the IPRIS Maghreb Review published by the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS) in Lisbon.