Radwa Saad is a PhD candidate at Cornell University. Her research focuses include civil-military relations, Afro-Arab relations as well as regional integration processes and security alliances in Africa. Her current research explores how state societal relations and archetypes of citizenship are (re)negotiated through military conscription practices in North Africa. Her research is supported by the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Einaudi Center for International Studies and the African Leadership Centre.