Information and national security during international crises

Fabrizio Coticchia is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Genoa. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. His fields of research are Italian (and European) defense and foreign policy, party politics, military transformation and strategic narratives. His articles have appeared on International Relations, Government&Opposition, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Political Science Review, Journal of European Public Policy, and International Peacekeeping. His latest book: Reluctant Remilitarisation: Transforming Defence and the Armed Forces in Germany, Italy and Japan After the Cold War (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Simone Tholens is Associate Professor of International Relations at John Cabot University, and part-time Professor at the European University Institute/Robert Schuman Centre. Her main research interest are interventions, security assistance, bordering processes, and materiality of global war practices, as well as theories of contestation and practice. She has worked on these issues in the Middle East, Western Balkans and Southeast Asia. In her research, she combines critical approaches to security & conflict, with practice-based methodologies.