Editorial Committee

Giuseppe Sacco is Professor of International Relations and World Economic Systems at the Free University of Rome since 1980. Previously (1970-1980) he has been Professor at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 2000, Professor Sacco taught in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. He has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, California-Los Angeles, Princeton Universities, and at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brasil) and also he has been Visiting Scientist at “Resources for the Future” of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For four years, (1976-80) he has been Director of Division in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris (OECD). He has also served the European Commission and as well as he has been a consultant for international Institutions and MNCs in over 40 countries.

Josef Janning is Director of the Bertelsmann Group for Policy Research, Center for Applied Policy Research (C·A·P), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. Since 2001, he is Head of the International Relations Program, Bertelsmann Stiftung and since 2000, Guest Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China. During 1987-1994 he has been Deputy Director, Research Group Europe and Lecturer in International Relations at Johannes Gutenberg, University of Mainz. Previously (1982-1985), he taught Political Science in the University of Bonn, the university’s Akademisches Auslandsamt, Germany. Professor Janning is member and chairman of various study groups on European affairs, East-West and Mediterranean issues, security policies and transatlantic relations and advisor to the German government on European Affairs.

Alfonso Giordano is Associated Scientist at the Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Free University of Brussels, in the Research group on "European Union, neo-regionalism, globalisation and international order". He is also Adjunct Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Free University of Rome. He worked as scientific expert in the Staff of the Counsellor for External Relations of the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union and served at the Council of the European Union. He has been National expert of the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union in the Research group on “Options for the Greater Middle East" coordinated by the Institute for Security Studies of the European Union, Paris.