Curriculum Vitae
Professional Profile
Professor of geopolitics at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, and the Sorbonne, and founder and director of the Nicholas Spykman International Center for Geopolitical Analysis. Author of more than twenty books published in six languages, including titles with Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan; his work has been reviewed in The New Yorker and The Economist. Regular contributor to Corriere della Sera, Limes, Gnosis, Appunti, and International Affairs Forum.
Research Areas
Geopolitics · International Relations · Geopolitics of Religion · Political History · National Identity · Borders · Global Political Change
Current Appointments
Founder and Director — Nicholas Spykman International Center for Geopolitical Analysis
Professor of Geopolitics and Geopolitics of Religions — Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po (2020–present)
Instructor, Geopolitics — Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne, Formation continue (2009–present)
Instructor, Geopolitics of Religions — Geneva Institute of Geopolitical Studies (2012–present)
Geopolitical Columnist — Appunti; contributor to Corriere della Sera, Gnosis, Limes, and International Affairs Forum
Selected Earlier Teaching
Università di Torino, Visiting Scientist Program (2021)
HEC Paris, Geopolitics (2016–2018)
American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Paris (2010–2018)
SKEMA Business School — Paris, Sophia Antipolis, Lille, and Suzhou (2012–2015)
Seminars at the Universities of Turin, Bologna, Rome La Sapienza, and Milano-Bicocca (2015–present)
Selected Invited Lectures
United Nations Correspondents Association, New York (2015)
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome (2015)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2018) · University of Glasgow (2018) · Hofstra University (2019) · Stony Brook University (2010–2019) · Brooklyn College, CUNY (2010) · University of Bath (2008)
Education
Ph.D., Italian Politics and History — Université Stendhal, Grenoble III (2004)
Teaching Qualification in Italian and History — French Conseil national des Universités (2005)
Master’s Degree, French Language and Modern Literature — University of Turin (1982)