Lorenzo Ornaghi is Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Since November 2002 he has been the Rector of this University.
He has also taught at the University of Teramo and at the University of Lugano. Since 1996 he has been Director of the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI).
He is the editor of “Vita e Pensiero”. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of various other journals and reviews.
He has written both books and essays published in Italian and international reviews. His main interests focus on the State and its transformations, the representation and organization of interests, and political language. In recent years he has turned his attention also to the study of European political and institutional integration, as well as the analysis of the Italian political system and its élites.

Books
con S. Cotellessa, Interesse, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.
a cura di, La nuova età delle costituzioni. Da una concezione nazionale di democrazia a una prospettiva europea e internazionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.
con Vittorio E. Parsi, Lo sguardo corto. Critica della classe dirigente italiana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001.
a cura di, Globalizzazione: nuove ricchezze e nuove povertà, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2001.

Book Chapters
Il ruolo internazionale dello Stato, in Dal sistema bipolare all’età globale. Manuale di relazioni internazionali, a cura di G. John Ikenberry e Vittorio E. Parsi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001.
Eguaglianza, in Enciclopedia del Novecento. Supplemento III, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004.
Un’esperienza al bivio: la cultura politica dell’Occidente, in Quale Occidente, Occidente perché, a cura di T. Bonazzi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005.

Luca Ozzano is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin. He has collaborated with the Faculties of Political Science of the Universities of Eastern Piedmont and Perugia. He has been visiting fellow at the CERI, in Paris (France).
His main focus of research is the role played by religion in politics and in international relations. His doctoral thesis (discussed in February 2006 at the University of Turin) assessed the weight of religious fundamentalist movements in some contemporary democracies. He is currently working on a book about the religious factor in Turkey’s recent foreign policy.
All his published works can be downloaded at the web page www.geocities.com/lucaozzano. He is also developing the website www.religione-politica.it.

Books:
Fondamentalismo e democrazia. La destra religiosa alla conquista della sfera pubblica in India, Israele e Turchia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009
Chapters in books:
“Islam e democrazia: Problemi, opportunità e modelli di sviluppo”, in V. Coralluzzo (ed.), Democrazie tra terrorismo e guerra; Guerini, Milano 2008
Articles in journals:
“Il dibattito internazionale sulla compatibilità fra Islam e Democrazia: alcune tesi a favore”, Teoria Politica n. 3/2004
“La Christian Right e Israele”, Biblioteca della Libertà, n. 181/2005
“Fondamentalismo islamico”, Meridiana n. 52/2005
“Una prospettiva politologica sul fondamentalismo religioso”, Teoria Politica n. 2/2007
“Le relazioni fra Turchia ed Europa ad un punto critico”, Diritto e libertà n. 13/2007
“Fra europeismo e neo-ottomanismo: La politica estera della Turchia durante il governo dell’AKP (2002-2007)”, forthcoming in Biblioteca della libert�
Working Papers:
Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy (1991-2001): a Decision-Making Analysis, Dep. of Political Studies, University of Turin, 2004