Professor of International Relations.
Education: B.A. University of Florence; M.A. University of
Colorado; Ph.D. Boston University.
Grants and Fellowships: Fulbright Fellowship (1982-83); Boston
University Presidential Fellow (1985-86); Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche Fellow (1986-88); Ford Fellow, Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University (1987-88); Jean Monnet
Fellow, European University Institute (1989-90); NATO Fellow
(1990-91); Fulbright Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University (1993); Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Turin (1994); NATO Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University (1997).
Author: L'equilibrio di potenza. Analisi storica e teorica
del concetto,(1987); Defining Security. The Case of
Southern Europe and the Superpowers in the Mediterranean,
(1989); Le ragioni della forza. Tucidide e la teoria
delle relazioni internazionali, (1994) -- Spanish transl. Alianza editorial, 2023; Politica e economia
internazionale. Introduzione alle teorie di International Political
Economy (1996); Le relazioni internazionali (ed., 2004);
Alleati ma rivali. Teoria delle alleanze e politica
estera settecentesca (2007) -- English transl. Allies yet
Rivals, Stanford University Press, 2010; Machiavelli on
International Relations (ed., 2014); Debating Foreign Policy in the Renaissance: Speeches on War and Peace by Francesco Guicciardini (ed., 2017); and several articles on
the theory of international relations and current issues of
international politics.
Other Teaching Positions: Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins
University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, and Paris School of
International Affairs.
Senior Fellow at The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy.