Role
Full Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Centro Alti Studi Difesa - Scuola Superiore Universitaria, Rome. Professor of Political Violence and Terrorism and of Sustainability and Civil Society at the OSCE Academy Bishkek. Since 2024, she has been Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Since 2027, she has been co-editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Messina, she obtained a PhD in International Relations from the University of Catania in 2004. Since 2016, she has been an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Catania, where she has served as President of the Master's Degree Program in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations (GLOPEM) and vice-coordinator of the Doctorate in Political Science.
She is Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) for the 2024-2027 term and Chair of the ECPR Working Group on Academic Freedom. She was a member of the Governing Council of the International Studies Association (2019-2021), Secretary of the Italian Society of Political Science (2018-2021), Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (2019-2021), and President of the European Peace Research Association (2017-2022).
His research focuses on terrorism, organized crime , and international conflict management , investigating the influence of non-state actors on global politics: from the positive potential of civil society and NGOs to the negative potential of criminal organizations and terrorist groups. His research has been supported by programs such as Fulbright, DAAD, and Marie Curie; he is Principal Investigator of the UNICT unit of the MORDOR project (Erasmus+) and a member of the COST action GLITSS.