Orsini Alessandro

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Alessandro Orsini

Sociologist

Alessandro Orsini is Associate Professor of General Sociology and Sociology of terrorism and political violence in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University, where he founded and directed the Observatory on International Security (2016–2022). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for International Studies from 2011 to 2022. His books have been published by major American universities, and his articles have appeared in the most prestigious international scientific journals specializing in terrorism studies. He has been invited to conduct analyses on international security for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, Parliament, the General Command of the Port Authorities, and the Institute for Higher Defence Studies (IASD). He was a member of the “Scenari Futuri” committee of the Defence General Staff and a member of the Editorial Board of “Studies in Conflict and Terrorism” (2013–2026). He has been invited to present his research at Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Brookings Institution, Trinity College, Boston College, Northeastern University, New York University (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI), Vilnius University-Institute of International Relations, and the Centre Arabe de recherche et d’études Politiques in Tunis. His Anatomia delle Brigate rosse (Rubettino 2009), translated by Cornell University Press, was ranked by “Foreign Affairs” among the most important books published in the United States in 2011, and was translated into Arabic (Dar Alca, Baghdad 2019). For PaperFirst, he has written the bestsellers Ucraina. (2022); Ucraina/Palestina (2024); Casa Bianca-Italia (2025). He obtained the national academic qualification for Full Professor in 2020. In 2026, he was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival with the book “Disinformazione. La manipolazione dell’opinione pubblica nelle democrazie occidentali” (Ed. PaperFirst).