Political analyst, entrepreneur, editor of Licosia and founder of Stroncature. He holds a degree in Political Science, a PhD in Development Economics, and is a Research Fellow in Political Sociology; for 15 years he was Director of Research at the Military Centre for Strategic Studies. A Senior Fellow at the European Centre for International Affairs, he has taught Political and Economic Geography and Political Sociology at Luiss-Guido Carli. He is the author of Who’s in Charge in Beijing (Castelvecchi, 2008); The Great Transition (Rubbettino, 2011); From the Open Society to the Closed Society (Rubbettino, 2012); Bettino Craxi’s Liberal Socialism (Licosia, 2015); he is co-author of Kim’s Nuclear Weapon (Rubbettino, 2013); and, with Luciano Pellicani, The Pagan Roots of the American Constitution (Ariele, 2014). He has also edited From the Fordist Society to the Digital Society (Licosia, 2019) and Citizen’s Income: An Anthology (2015); and, with Giampietro Berti and Luciano Pellicani, The Defenders of the West (Licosia, 2016).