Professor of the History of Treaties and International Politics at the University of Bari (Italy), Vice-President of the Italian Atlantic Committee, President of the Mediterranean Center for Geopolitical and Strategic Studies, Member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute (Vienna), Advisor for International Relations to the President of the Center for Higher Defense Studies, member of the Expert Council of Master’s program “Diplomacy of the Russian Federation and Foreign States” at St. Petersburg University, member of the International Advisory Council of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Selection Committee for NATO Fellowships, founder and first Secretary General of the De Gasperi Foundation. Among his books: “The Roosevelt Administration and Collective Security,” “Reflections on the Third Postwar Period.”