Biographical note

Raffaele Marchetti is Senior Assistant Professor of International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome. His research interests lie in global politics and governance, transnational civil society, political risk and democracy. His recent publications include Partnership in International Policy Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in Global and European Affairs (Palgrave, 2016, ed.); La politica della globalizzazione (Mondadori, 2014); Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013, co-ed. With B. Maiguashca); Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2011, co-ed. With D. Archibugi and M. Koenig-Archibugi); Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (United Nations University Press, 2011, co-ed. With N. Tocci); Conflict Society and Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2011, co-ed. With N. Tocci); Manuale di politica internazionale (UBE, 2010, co-authored with F. Mazzei and F. Petito); and Global Democracy: For and Against. Ethical Theory, Institutional Design and Social Struggles (Routledge, 2008). 　 Sergio Fabbrini is Director of the School of Government and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair. He was the Editor of the Italian Journal of Political Science from 2003 to 2009. He is Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Among his recent publications in English are Which European Union? Europe After the Euro Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar (Oxford University Press, 2010 (second updated edition); America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower (Polity Press, 2008).