Role
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Palermo.
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Palermo (1995), she earned an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Milan (2001). She is a member of the Italian Society of Political Science, the International Studies Association, the European International Studies Association, and the Transatlantic Studies Association. She was awarded a Fulbright-Schuman grant (research on International Security, Multilateral Intervention, and the Question of Legitimacy: The Role of Cooperation Between the US and the EU) and a visiting scholar at Columbia University ( Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Institute on Western Europe) and Georgetown University (USA).
He has participated in several national and international research groups, including those on the role of the United States in the international system, Italian foreign policy, the impact of the economic crisis on the de-Europeanization of Southern European foreign policy, and American bases in Europe. He has lectured on security and global change at the Institute for Advanced Defense Studies of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies as part of the IASD Study Sessions (2017, 2018, and 2019).
He currently teaches Political Science and International Relations at the University of Palermo, and coordinates (with Vittorio Parsi) the Standing Group on International Relations of the Italian Society of Political Science.
His research has focused on four main areas: security and its articulations, analyzing the concept and dimensions (military and non-military) of security and their evolution, internal-external links, policies and instruments, actors (especially the US and EU), and key institutions (especially multilateral institutions and pluralistic security communities); multilateralism, analyzing its evolution (with particular attention to its role within the American hegemonic order and its relationship with the United States), its institutions (especially the Security Council), and related policies; Italian foreign and security policy, analyzing changes in its Europeanization and in relation to the United States (with attention to both the American hegemonic order and US bases in Italy), Russia, and China; and the relationship between states' coalitional behavior and changes in the organization of the international political system. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and a referee for numerous international scientific journals.