Dr Stefano Marcuzzi is Assistant Professor in History of International Relations at the Centre for Higher Defence Studies (CASD), Rome.
He obtained his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford in 2016. Thereafter, Marcuzzi was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, Florence, in 2016-2018, and a Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) of the University College Dublin (UCD), in 2018-2021.
Additionally, Marcuzzi was a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels, in 2018-2019, and collaborates with a number of think tanks and research groups, including: Libya Analysis LLC (New York-London), the Atlantic Council (Washington), the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Bonn), ISPI (Milan), the European Security and Defense College (Brussels), and the NATO Defense College (Rome). He is also an External Fellow at Boston University (BU).
His research interests include the working of coalitions and alliances in crisis and conflict (particularly EU and NATO crisis management), the changing character of war, and Mediterranean security.
He has published extensively on these topics; among his main works stand four monographies: Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War. Defending and Forging Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Le guerre di Libia. Un secolo di conquiste e rivoluzioni, co-authored with Gastone Breccia (Il Mulino, 2021), The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict. Anatomy of a Failure (Routledge, 2022), and his latest book, L’Europa e la NATO alla fine della Guerra fredda. Il crollo dell’ordine bipolare e il dilemma della sicurezza collettiva (Il Mulino, 2025).
