Marco Cesa holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Florence as well as a MA and a PhD in the same field from the University of Colorado and Boston University, respectively. He has been Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute; and Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He has taught at the Universities of Trieste, Pavia, Pisa; the Catholic University, Milan; the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; and the Diplomatische Akademie, Vienna. He is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University.