Valentine Lomellini (Ph.D in Political Systems and Institutional Change) is Associate Professor in History of International Relations. She is Deputy-Director of the MA in “European and Global Studies” and is also the Scientific Coordinator of the Spring School IPSE – International Politics&Security, based on a network of 20 Universities (from Georgetown to Stanford). She was awarded the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic and the Simone Veil Award. She is the author of more than 70 scientific publications on international volumes and reviews. She gave papers in more than 80 conferences in several Italian Universities, and in Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Denmark.