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Gabriele Natalizia

Assistant Professor in Political science at Link Campus University of Rome, where he teaches Political Science and Diplomacy and is member of the Research Center “Link Lab”. He obtained his PhD degree in “History and Formation of Political Processes in the Contemporary Age” at Sapienza University of Rome, where he is Adjunct professor of International politics and member of the Research Center “Cooperation with Eurasia, Mediterranean area and Sub-Saharan Africa (CEMAS)”. He is Adjunct professor of International Organization for the Master of the Istituto Superiore di Stato Maggiore Interforze (ISSMI) of Centro Alti Studi della Difesa of the Italian Ministry of Defense. He is coordinator of the website Geopolitica.info (www.geopolitica.info). His field of research includes Post-soviet studies, international relations theory and processes of democratization.

He is research member of Prin 2015 “Media e terrorismi. L’impatto della comunicazione e delle reti digitali sull’insicurezza percepita”, coordinated by Prof. Mario Morcellini (“Sapienza” University of Rome). He participated to the following research groups: 1) “Consequences of Democratization” of the project “The economic, social and political consequences of democratic reforms. A quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis (COD)” (7th Framework Programme of the EU) and coordinated by Prof. Giovanni Carbone (University of Milan); 2) Prin 2009 “Sistemi elettorali, partiti e personale politico in Italia. 1987-2008”, coordinated by Prof. Oreste Massari (“Sapienza” University of Rome); 3) Prin 2007 “Imperi e nazioni in Europa dal XVIII al XX secolo”, coordinated by Prof. Antonello Folco Biagini (“Sapienza” University of Rome).

He is fellow member of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP), of the Standing Group of International Relations of the Italian Society of Political Science, of the Standing Group of Presidential Politics of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and of Italian Association of Studies on Central Asia and Caucasus.

He was Adjunct professor of History of International Development at Sapienza University of Rome (2010-2014), of Political Sociology at Unicusano University (2009-2013) and of Geopolitics at the University of International Studies of Rome (2006-2009). He was Visiting professor at Villanueva Centro Universitario-Universidad Complutense Madrid (2017), Universitat de Barcelona (2016), the ADA University of Baku (2015), at the Baku State University (2012) and at the State Archives of Albania (2009).

Among his publications: Il Caucaso meridionale. Processi politici e attori di un’area strategica (Aracne, 2016), Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries (con A. Cassani & F. Luppi, European Journal of Political Research, 2016), The Great War within the Neorealist Theory of International Relations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), Sovranità sfidata e ambiente internazionale: Le transizioni non democratiche nel Caucaso (1991- 2003) (Il Politico, 2014), Rileggere Ferrero nella prospettiva delle Relazioni internazionali (Aracne, 2013), Azerbaigian. Una lunga storia (Passigli, 2012), La politica del Giappone tra shock internazionali e comunicazione di potenza, (Nuova Cultura, 2012).

Paulo Duarte

Paulo Duarte holds a PhD and a Masters in Political and Social Sciences, awarded by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is an expert in China’s One Belt One Road, on China, World Politics, and specifically Central Asia, where he carried out an extensive on-the-ground doctoral research (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a scholarship awarded from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is the author of more than 40 articles published in peer-review journals. Columnist at Revista Sociedade Militar. Author of Metamorfoses no Poder: rumo à hegemonia do dragão? with preface and presentation by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, current President of the Portuguese Republic. Author of Duarte, Paulo (2017). Pax Sinica. Lisboa: Chiado Editora [presented on June 20, 2017 by Former Minister of Education and of Finance of Portugal, Excellency Prof. Dr. Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins]. Guest researcher at the National Chengchi University (Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies), in Taiwan. Member of China’s Observatory in Portugal and is Editor-in-Chief of ELA Journal (IAPSS publication). Member of the Foundation Friends of the New Silk Road, Portugal. Recent publications include: Duarte, Paulo (2017). A Faixa e Rota Chinesa: a convergência entre Terra e Mar. Lisboa: Instituto Internacional de Macau; Duarte, Paulo (2017).La Nouvelle Route de la Soie chinoise et l’Asie Centrale: vers une (re)configuration de l’intégration régionale et globale - Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium.

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Filipa Gomes

Has a degree in ‘International Relations’ at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (2009), and a master's degree in ‘Territorial Management - Environment and Natural Resources’ at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the thesis "International Environmental Relations: the Conferences of Parties of the 'Rio Conventions' as practical examples of Environmental Multilateralism" (June 2012). In the same year, has begun a PhD in ‘Public Policy’ at ISCTE, having completed the teaching component (or Advanced Studies Certificate) in June of 2013, and initiated a research project on implementation of european policies in Portugal, with a special focus on environmental policies.

Between 2015 and 2017, makes training in Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS software), where she works while technique in waste planning and management in a company of the sector.

Today, she is a PhD student in ‘International Relations: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics’, following the development of the thesis on the implementation of european (environmental) policies in Portugal.

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