Antonio Fiori is Associate Professor of Asian History and Institutions at the University of Bologna (Italy) and President of the Asia Institute. He is also Adjunct Professor at Korea University in Seoul and UPES in Dehradun (India). He has been a visiting scholar at United International College (Zhuhai, PRC), the East-West Centre (Honolulu, USA) and the Kyujanggak Centre for Korean Studies (Seoul National University, Korea). His main areas of interest are inter-Korean relations and the foreign policy of the two Koreas and the People’s Republic of China. His most recent publications include: The Korean Paradox: Domestic Political Divide and Foreign Policy in South Korea (Routledge, 2019), The Routledge Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations (Routledge, 2022), Asia. Storia, istituzioni e relazioni internazionali (Le Monnier, 2022).