MARCO LA BELLA è Assegnista di ricerca di “Scienza Politica” presso il DAPPSI (Dipartimento di Analisi dei Processi Politici Sociali ed Istituzionali) della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Catania sul programma di ricerca “L’istituto della difesa civica e le nuove forme di partecipazione nelle democrazie mature”.
Dottore di Ricerca in “Profili della Cittadinanza nella costruzione dell’Europa” presso la Facoltà di Scienze politiche dell’Università degli Studi di Catania con la tesi “Il Difensore civico nel dilemma tra efficienza e democrazia”.
E’ responsabile dell’Area Istituzionale, Government, Governance e Organizzazione dei Servizi del CeDoc (Centro di Documentazione sulle Organizzazioni Complesse e i Sistemi Locali) – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale dell’Università degli Studi di Catania.
I suoi interessi scientifici sono legati ai temi della Difesa Civica, con particolare riferimento alla figura dell’Ombudsman in chiave comparata; alla Governance, alle Politiche di Sviluppo Locale, ai Servizi Pubblici, alla Partecipazione e della Cittadinanza; alle Elezioni, al Comportamento Elettorale e all’e-Government nelle P.A..

Book Chapters
Il processo di implementazione, in L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, a cura di Renato D’Amico, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2008.
La qualità della democrazia e la difesa civica, in La cittadinanza europea, a cura di, Pietro Barcellona, Acireale-Roma, 2008.
La Procedura, in L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, a cura di Renato D’Amico, FrancoAngeli, 2007, 87-131.

Journal Articles
Il ruolo dell’Ombudsman in Italia e Francia: tra efficienza e democrazia, in Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione. Analisi delle istituzioni e delle politiche pubbliche, Milano, FrancoAngeli, n. 4, 2004, 49-88;
Le politiche “costitutive” in Sicilia: il caso della riforma del sistema elettorale per gli enti locali, parte I e II, in Nuove Autonomie, Palermo, Quattrosoli, nn. 4-5 2001, 573-602, e 6, 2002, 831-862.

ANTONIO LA SPINA is professor of Sociology at the University of Palermo. 1989-90: Jean Monnet fellow and research fellow, European University Institute. 1996-98: full professor of sociology of law, Univ. of Messina and head of the V. Tomeo Department of Political and Social Studies. 2000-01: director of the targeted project on Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), Department of Public Administration, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Rome.
He also worked on RIA for the OECD, the EU presidency, the EU Commission, the Formez, several Italian Regions. 2004-05: professor of sociology of law and security policies, Catholic University of Milan. 2000-2007: director of the School of Journalism, Univ. of Palermo. Former head of the Department of Social Sciences, Univ. Of Palermo.
Former national coordinator of the section of sociology of law, Italian Sociological Association. National coordinator of the research projects of national interest (Prin) “Dimensions of Development. Security, social policies, innovation” and “Legal culture and public policies in contemporary Italy”. Member of: Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Studi di Sociologia, Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Sociologia del diritto, Astrid, Svimez.

Books
with S. Cavatorto, Le autorità indipendenti, Bologna, Mulino, 2008.
editor, Fondazione Rocco Chinnici, I costi dell’illegalità. Mafia ed estorsioni in Sicilia, Bologna, Mulino, 2008.
with A. Febbrajo e M. Reiteri, eds., Cultura giuridica e politiche pubbliche in Italia, Milano, Giuffré, 2006.
Mafia, legalità debole e sviluppo del Mezzogiorno, Bologna, Mulino, 2005.
La politica per il Mezzogiorno, Bologna, Mulino, 2003.
with G. Majone, Lo Stato regolatore, Bologna, Mulino, 2000.
with M. Centorrino and G. Signorino, Il nodo gordiano. Criminalità mafiosa e sviluppo del Mezzogiorno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999.

Book Chapters
Le istituzioni della regolazione, in G. Capano (ed.), Non solo potere. Le altre facce della politica. Scritti in onore di Giorgio Freddi, Bologna, Mulino, 2008.
The Paradox of Effectiveness: Growth, Institutionalization and Evaluation of Anti-Mafia Policies in Italy, in C. Fijnaut and L. Paoli (eds.) Organised Crime in Europe, Dordrecht, Springer, 2004.

ORAZIO LANZA is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Catania.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Party Politics and Pressure Groups, Political Elites, Political Engineering, Local Politics.
CURRENT RESEARCH: Electoral System, Party System and Government in Spain (1978-2008).

Books
with G. Piazza and C. Vacante, Politiche e partecipazione. Sindaci, cittadini, gruppi, nel nuovo governo locale, Bonanno, Acireale-Roma, 2004.
with F. Raniolo, Una democrazia di successo? La Spagna dalla transizione democratica al governo Zapatero, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2006.

Book Chapters
with G. Piazza, Il ricambio dei parlamentari, in G. Pasquino (a cura di), Dall’Ulivo al governo Berlusconi. Le elezioni del maggio 2001 ed il sistema politico italiano. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2002, 239-273.
Spagna: un capo di governo autorevole in G. Pasquino (a cura di), Capi di governo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2005, 249- 279.
Spagna: sistema partitico o sistemi partitici in G. Pasquino e P. Grilli ( a cura di), Partiti e sistemi di partito nelle democrazie europee, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007, 117- 149.
Governabilità e sistema partitico in Spagna, in M.R. Maugeri e R. Palidda (a cura di), Studi in onore di Paolo Berretta, Giuffre, Milano, 2007.

Journal Articles
with K.A. Lavdas, The Disentanglement of Interest Politics: Business associability, the parties and policy in Italy and Greece, in European Journal of Political Research, 37, 2, 2000, 203-235.
with G. Piazza, I parlamentari di Forza Italia: un gruppo a sostegno di una leadership?, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXII, 3, dicembre 2002, 425-457.

GIOVAN FRANCESCO LANZARA ha conseguito la laurea in Ingegneria civile nell’Università di Pisa (1971) e il Master in City Planning and Urban Design a Harvard (1973). Dal 1994 è professore ordinario di Teoria dell’organizzazione e Scienza dell’amministrazione nell’Università di Bologna. Negli anni 1974-1975 ha iniziato la sua carriera come cooperante in servizio civile in Algeria, contribuendo alla nuova pianificazione regionale algerina. Ha poi lavorato come analista di sistemi presso il Centro Studi in Tecnologie Avanzate dell’Università di Bari, e nella stessa Università è stato Professore Associato di Economia e Organizzazione Aziendale e di Sociologia Economica. Ha insegnato nell’Università della Calabria, nell’Università di Aarhus, Danimarca, e nella Graduate School of Business Leadership di Monterrey, Messico. Visiting Scholar, Guest of the Institute, e Research Associate presso il Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981-1982 e 1986-1987); Visiting Scholar presso l’Istituto Universitario Europeo e la Stanford University (1994-1995). Membro del Consiglio Scientifico dell’Istituto per le Scienze e le Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR (1997-2002). Ha diretto progetti di ricerca e di alta formazione per organizzazioni private e istituzioni pubbliche, tra cui il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

Books
curatore e co-autore, Labirinti dell’innovazione. Tecnologia, organizzazione, apprendimento, Milano, Etaslibri, 1999.
co-autore e curatore, Progettazione di nuove tecnologie e qualità del lavoro, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 1984.
Capacità negativa. Competenza progettuale e modelli d’intervento nelle organizzazioni, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993.
co-autore, L’interpretazione della complessità. Metodo sistemico e scienze sociali, Napoli, Guida, 1981.

Journal Articles
coautore, Technology and the Courtroom. An Inquiry into Knowledge Making in Organizations, Journal of Management Studies, 2001.
Self-destructive Processes in Institution Building and Some Modest Countervailing Mechanisms, European Journal of Political Research, 1998.
co-autore, Formative Contexts and Information Technology: Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation in Organizations, Accounting, Management, and Information Technology, 1994.
Ephemeral Organizations in Extreme Environments: Emergence, Strategy, Extinction, Journal of Mangement Studies, 1983.

ANNA MARIA LAZZARINO DEL GROSSO is Professor of History of Political Thought, University of Genoa. President of the Associazione Italiana degli Storici delle dottrine politiche from 1998 to 2007 (actually honorary President). Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Genoa (1999-2002). Actually Coordinator of the Doctorate in Political Thought and Political Communication (Doctorate School in Political Sciences-University of Genoa), President of the Faculty Library. Visiting Professor, Université de Paris X .
She has published books, journal and collective book articles concerning medieval, modern and contemporary political thought, paying a particular attention to social ideologies and to their influence on the attempt to build political projects and political science.
Her recent interests focus on Risorgimento’s political actors and writers, as Mazzini and Garibaldi, and on the many-sided aspects of the communication problems in the history of political thought.

Books
Bodin e la critica della democrazia, Napoli, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2004.

Book Chapters
The World after the War. The “Panoramic” Sight of José Carlos Mariátegui, in F. Brizio Skov, Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War, Boca Raton, Bordighera Press, 2004, 200-214.
Il federalismo sconfitto: Francesco Ferrara e Giuseppe Ferrari, in Storia e percorsi del federalismo: l’eredità di Cattaneo, a cura di D. Preda e C. Rognoni Vercelli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, 2 voll., vol. I, 133-191.
Concordia (Harmonia), in F. Ingravalle, C. Malandrino, a cura di, Il lessico della ‘Politica’ di Althusius, Firenze, Olschki, 2005, 125-142.
Methodus (Methodice), ivi, 231-251.
Bodin, in R. Gherardi (coord.), Politica _i Statele. Probleme _i figuri ale gândirii occidentale, editie ingrijit_ de G. L. Stoica, Bucure_ti, Editura Mediterana 2000, 2006, 96-106.
El pensamiento politico en la época colombina, in J- Varela Marcos, M. Léon Guerriero (ed.) Cristóbal Colón, su tiempo y sus reflejos, J. ed., t. II, Valladolid, Gráficas Andrés Martín, 2006, 131-146.
O “aprendizado” de Garibaldi na America Latina: a “scuola delle palle” e a “escola moral”, in Os caminhos de Garibaldi na America, Porto Alegre, Laser Press Comunicação, 2007, 61-72.

Journal Articles
The Respublica Hebraeorum as Scientific Political Model in Jean Bodin’s ‘Methodus’, in Hebraic Political Studies, I, 2006, n. 5, 549-567.

guido Legnante. Born in 1971, married, a daughter and a son, he lives in Pavia.
He graduated in Political Sciences from the University of Pavia (1995) and got a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute of Fiesole (2002). He is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Pavia, where he teaches “Sociologia politica”, “Cittadini, elezioni, partiti”, “Marketing politico e media”.
He is member of the research group ITANES (Italian National Election Studies), of the Editorial board of the RISP (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica), of the Scientific committee of the SISE (Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali).
His research interests are related to some aspects of the electoral studies, namely: electoral behaviour (national and local), representation, political and electoral partiticipation, public opinion, political communication and electoral campaigns.

Books
Alla ricerca del consenso. Il “mercato elettorale” visto dai parlamentari italiani, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2004.
with G. Baldini, Città al voto. I sindaci e le elezioni comunali (1993-1998), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.

Book Chapters
Berlusconi, Prodi e l’agenda della campagna elettorale, in P. Feltrin, P. Natale, L. Ricolfi (eds.), Nel segreto dell’urna, Padova, Utet, 2007, 21-40.
Leader e temi in video, in P. Bellucci, P. Segatti (eds.), Dov’è la vittoria?, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, 35-47.
The Elections in the Cities: Yet Another Defeat for the Center-Right, in C. Guarnieri, J. Newell (eds.), Italian Politics 2005, Oxford, Berghan Books, 2005, 65-82.
Tra influenza e incapsulamento: cittadini, comunicazione e campagna elettorale, in M. Caciagli, P. Corbetta (eds.), Le ragioni dell’elettore, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, 233-273.

Journal Articles
Comunicazione, elettori allineati e una campagna di mobilitazione, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2006, n. 3, 431-453.
The Italian Local Elections of 2003: A National Campaign (and Consequences), A Local Vote, in South European Society & Politics, 2003, VIII, n. 3, 119-131.

Angelita Licciano è dottoranda di ricerca in Scienza Politica presso il Dipartimento di Studi Politici e Sociali dell’Università di Pavia, con una tesi su I discorsi del Presidente della Repubblica in Italia (1946-2005) (Supervisore: Prof. Fedel).
Si è laureata in Scienze politiche a Pavia nel 2004 con una tesi su I discorsi programmatici del Presidente del Consiglio nella Seconda Repubblica (Relatore: Prof. Fedel). Attualmente è cultore della materia per i corsi politologici presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Pavia. Si interessa di comunicazione politica, analisi del linguaggio politico e teoria del discorso.

Andrea Lippi is Assistant Professor in Political science at the University of Florence.
He is EC member of the Società Italiana di Scienza politica since 2007 and member of the scientific committee of the CIRES since 2007.
Until the academic year 2007-08 he has been teacher in Scienza dell’amministrazione and Analisi delle politiche pubbliche (policy analysis) at The Faculty of Political sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, University of Florence, where he will teach Scienza politica and Analisi e valutazione delle politiche pubbliche (policy analysis and evaluation) in 2008-2009. He also taught at the University of Trento and, recently, in master programs at the Universities of Urbino, Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma Tre, Istituto di Scienze Umane (SUM), and Seminario di studi parlamentari “S.Tosi”. He is member of editorial board of the Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione.
His recent research interests focus on policy evaluation, local governance and institutional performance. He is currently working on governance and networking among local authorities, public utilities and local political élites at Research Unit on Local Governance at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Florence.

Books
with Massimo Morisi, Ciencia de l’administracion, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2008.
with Giulio Citroni and Nicola Giannelli, Chi governa l’acqua? Studio sulla governance locale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2008.
La valutazione delle politiche pubbliche, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
with Massimo Morisi, Scienza dell’amministrazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

Book Chapters
Partenariato e rappresentanza nelle regioni del centro nord, in Fargion, V.; Morlino, L.; Profeti, S. (eds.): Europeizzazione e rappresentanza territoriale: il caso italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006.
Gli Enti locali, in Capano, G.; Gualmini, E. (eds), La pubblica amministrazione in Italia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006.

Journal Articles
with Emidio Diodato, Politiche di internazionalizzazione e arene della rappresentanza. Una comparazione tra Lombardia e Toscana, in Rivista italiana di scienza politica, n.2, 2007.
with Giulio Citroni, Nicola Giannelli and Stefania Profeti, Qui gouverne les services publics locaux? Des configurations variables entre secteurs public et privé dans le cas du service public de l’eau en Italie, in Politique et management publique, n.3, 2007.
with Giulio Citroni, Nicola Giannelli and Stefania Profeti, Adapting Public – Private governance to the local context. The case of water and sanitation services in Italy, in Public Management Review, n.2, 2008.

Renata Lizzi is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna at Forlì. She teaches Theories of European Integration, Institutions and Policies of the EU at the Faculty of Political Science “Roberto Ruffilli”. She is managing editor of the “Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche”, member of the Scientific Committee of “Punto Europa” a centre for information and documentation on the EU; she has been involved in a research project on European Governance of the research centre of URGE – Research Unit on European Governance, Collegio Carlo Alberto of Moncalieri (TO).
Her main research interests are within the field of policy studies (public policies and policy making, European policies, European governance, Europeanization). She has published two books on environmental and agricultural policies, and book chapters and journal articles on EU studies’ subjects.
She has been involved in the research activities of “Centro di Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche” a research unit of Department of Political Science.

Books
La politica agricola, Bologna Il Mulino, 2002.

Book Chapters
Italy and Agricultural Policy, in S. Fabbrini and S. Piattoni (editors), Italy in the European Union, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefiled, 2008, 25-50.
Le sfide empiriche alle teorie dell’integrazione europea:allargamento, approfondimento e costituzionalizzazione, in M Ferrera e M. Giuliani (a cura di), Governance europea e politiche pubbliche, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Le politiche ambientali. “Old regulation” e “New regulation” e la definizione dei problemi fra strutture esperte e policy network, in G. Capano (a cura di), Non solo potere: le altre facce della politica Saggi in onore di Giorgio Freddi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, 145-174.
Prefazione, in F. Pigliacelli, Una nuova frontiera per l’Europa. Storia della cooperazione spaziale europea (1958-2005), Bologna, CLUEB, 2006, 7-11.

Journal Articles
Europeizzazione e politiche agricole: un esercizio utile per ripartire dai fondamentali, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 3, 2006, 5-39.
Presentazione al numero monografico L’allargamento ad Est dell’Unione Europea, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n. 2-3, 2003, 5-10.

Lidia Lo Schiavo has a PhD in Political Science and she has recently passed the entry exam to become Researcher for the University of Messina. She has recently been awarded a grant to develop her PhD dissertation for publication by the Italian National Research Council (CNR). In 2006-2007 she taught “Political Science and Policy Analysis” in the Faculty of Political Science, University of Messina.
She was part of two groups working on national research projects, the first dealing with Deliberative Democracy (Miur-Cofin 2002-2004), the second on Mafia and Politics in the Italian political system (Miur-Cofin 2004-2006). In 2003 she received a research project grant from the National Research Program for “Young Researchers” relating to “Democratic governance as a paradigm for public policies in EU policy-making”.
She spoke at the “Sixth Pan-European International Research Conference- Making Sense of a Pluralist World”, ECPR, University of Turin, 12-15 September 2007. She has taken part in conferences and seminars, in Italy and abroad. A member of IPSA and of “Regimen” (Research Network on International Governance). Her main research interests are State Theory and Governance Theory, International and European Studies focusing particularly on Institutional Change.

Books
Lo Stato all’ordine del giorno?, Roma, Aracne, 2007.

Book Chapters
Democrazia partecipativa e questione migratoria: spunti da un dibattito in corso, in A. Anastasi (eds), Immigrazioni internazionali e democrazia partecipativa, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005, 139-148.
Analisi di rete: matrici e prospettive teoriche, in A. Anastasi (eds) Network, regolazione, risorse di potere e politica locale, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2007.

Journal Articles
Identità e società civile internazionale, Teoria Politica, XXII, n. 2, 2006, 29-62.
Unione Europea: si riparte dalle dichiarazioni, Segno, XXXIII, n. 285-286, 2007, 83-92.
Book review, N. Onuf, The Republican Legacy in International Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, in Foedus, 16, 2006, 100-113.

Andrea Locatelli is post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bologna. He also takes part in the research activities of the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI) at Università Cattolica (Milan)
He holds an MA in Economics and International Relations from ASERI, and a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Florence.
Among his teaching activities, he served as a scholar-in-residence at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada); visiting lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary); visiting professor at the Legon Center for International Affairs (Accra, Ghana); visiting lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia).
His main research interests lie in the field of International Relations Theory and Strategic Studies.

Books
L’Europa sicura. Le politiche di sicurezza dell’Unione Europea, co-edited with Serena Giusti, Egea, Milano, 2008.

Journal Articles
The Technology Gap in Transatlantic Relations: A Cause of Tension or a Tool of Cooperation?, in Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2007, 133-154.
co-edited with Vittorio E. Parsi and Serena Giusti, Esiste ancora la comunità transatlantica? Europa e Stati Uniti tra crisi e distensione, Vita&Pensiero, Milano, 2006.
Le implicazioni politiche del technology gap sulle relazioni tra Stati Uniti ed Europa, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, V, 1, 2005, 127-153.

Francesca Longo is Professor of Political Science, University of Catania, and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Catania. She is Jean Monnet Professor in “European Union Public Policy”, Member of the Academic Board of the Doctoral Programm on Political Science – Comparative and European Politics University of Siena; member of the executive committe of the ECPR Standing Group on Organise Crime and coordinator of the SISP Standing group on European Union. Her international activities include the coordination of theInternational Research group on European Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus: the role of the EU, The US and Russia, financing by INTAS; the membership of the International Research group on Organisational Changes within the Police and Prosecution Services of the EU Member States as a Consequence of the fight against the Organised Crime : The Intersection between national and EU policies, coordinated by the European Institut of Publc Affairs, Maastricht, and financing by the Falcone Programm (1998/TFJHA-); the membership of the International Research group on Trasparency and Accountability of Police and Security Forces, Services and Agencies: A comparative Study coordinated by the Centre for European Security studies, Groningen.
Her recent interests focus on the internal and external securoty of the European Union, the relation between European Union and the Southern Caucasus and the politological theorethical analysis on the European Union.

Books
editor, Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus, the Role of the EU, the US and Russia, Wien, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007.
Unione Europea e Scienza Politica: teorie a confronto, Milano Giuffrè, 2005.
editor, The EU and the fight against organised crime: towards a common police and judicial approach, Milano, Giuffrè, 2002.

Book Chapters
L’Area di Libertà, Sicurezza e Giustizia nella Prospettiva Politologica, in Rafaraci T. (ed.), L’Area di Libertà, Sicurezza e Giustizia: alla Ricerca di un equilibrio fra Priorità Repressive ed Esigenze di Garanzia, Milano, Giuffrè, 2007, 69-87.
Il Ruolo della Politica Europea di difesa e di sicurezza comune, in A. Colombo (a cura di), L’Occidente Diviso. La Politica e le Armi, Milano, Egea Bocconi Editore 2004, 69-101.
TALY, in D. Greenwood and S. Huisman, Transparency and Accountability of polices Forces, Security Services and intelligence Agencies, Centre for European Security Strategy, Netherlands, 2004, 74-89″The export of fight against organised crime policy model and the EU’s international actorness, in Prince, S. and Knodt, M (eds.), Understanding the EU’s International Presence, London, Routledge, 2003,158- 172.

Journal Articles
New Governance and Multiple Identities, in Pace e diritti Umani/Peace Human Rights, Vol IV, n.1 2007, 51-67.
Il Ritorno della “Grande Théorie” nello Studio dell’Unione Europea, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Vol. XXXVII, n. 2, 2007.

Maximiliano Lorenzi received his undergraduate degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Padova, his M.A. in European Studies from the University of Siena and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Firenze in 2005.
He has been visiting fellow at the European Centre for Public Affairs in Brussels and has been intern for an Italian MEP at the European Parliament.
He taught Politics of the European Union at the University of Firenze from 2005-07 and also classes on non-state actors in global politics, and government and business at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute. Currently he teaches Politics of the European Union in different American programmes in Firenze (Cultural Experiences Abroad, Lorenzo de’ Medici and California State University).
His research interests include interest representation and lobbying in the European Union, public affairs consultancy as a political actor, and quality of democracy.

Dr Lorenzi has presented at many conferences in Italy and abroad and has published an article on “Power: a radical view” by Steven Lukes.

Sonia Lucarelli is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna at Forlì and Director of Research at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War in Florence. She is member of the Board of the Network of Excellence GARNET. She has been Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Pisa, Siena and Bologna.
Lucarelli studied Political Science at the University of Florence (Laurea, 1991) and at European University Institute (PhD 1998). She has worked at the Institute for International Affairs in Rome as Research Assistant on a Volkswagen Stiftung-financed project on conflict prevention (1995-7). Later she worked at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War on a project financed by the Regione Toscana (1998-2000). This research grant was followed by a NATO-EACP Research grant (2000-2) and a Post-doc Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute (2001-2) both dealing with the construction of a democratic security community in Europe.
In terms of research, through the years Lucarelli has worked in four main research areas, European security (with a particular focus on the role of the European Union); International Relations Theory; International Relations in Italy; EU’s foreign policy and, more recently, the external image of the EU.

Books
with F. Cerutti eds, The Search for a European identity. Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union, Routledge, 2008.
with I. Manners eds, Values and Principles in European Foreign Policy, Routledge, 2006.
with C. Radaelli eds, Mobilising Politics and Society? The EU Convention’s Impact on Southern Europe, Routledge 2005.
editor, La Polis europea. L’Unione europea oltre l’Euro, Asterios, 2003.
Europe and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. A Political Failure in Search of a Scholarly Explanation, Kluwer Law International, 2000.

Journal Articles
Beyond Self Perception: The Others’ View of the European Union, Special issue European Foreign Affairs Review, 3/2007.
Values, Identity and Ideational Shocks in the Transatlantic Rift, Journal of International Relations and Development, 9(3), 2006, 304-334.
with R. Menotti, No-Constructivists Land. IR Theory in Italy in the 1990s, Journal of International Relations and Development, 5(2), 2002, 114-142.
Unione Europea, NATO e la costruzione di comunità di sicurezza democratiche in Europa Centro-orientale, Teoria Politica, n. 2/2002, 87-120.