Sergio Fabbrini is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Dean of the Political Science Department at Luiss University in Rome, where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He is also Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School, Harvard University (Spring Semester 2020). He co-founded and served as Director of the Luiss School of Government (2009-2018) and of the Trento University School of International Studies (2006-2009). He was the Editor of the “Italian Journal of Political Science” (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica) in the period 2004-2009 (the first editor after Giovanni Sartori who founded the journal in 1971 and directed it till 2003).
He was Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley. He was Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College, Oxford University, in the Spring Semester 2006. He was Jean Monnet Chair Professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, in the Fall Semester 2001 and Visiting Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute in Florence, in 2004. He was Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 1987-1988.
For his editorials for the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore, he was awarded the “Altiero Spinelli Prize 2017”, he won the 2011 “Capalbio Prize for Europe”, the 2009 “Filippo Burzio Prize for the Political Sciences” and the 2006 Amalfi European Prize for the Social Sciences. He was the Editor of the 9-volumes series on “The Institutions of Contemporary Democracies” for the Italian publisher G. Laterza. He published seventeen books, two co-authored books and twenty edited or co-edited books or journals’ special issues, and hundreds of scientific articles and essays in seven languages in the most important peer-reviewed international journals (among them, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Integration, International Political Science Review, Global Policy, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, European Politics and Society, European Journal of American Culture, International Spectator, Jourmal of Transatlantic Studies).
His publications in English include: Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order, (with Raffaele Marchetti, eds.) London, Routledge, 2016. Which European Union? Europe After the Euro Crisis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015; Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010 (second and revised edition); America and Its Critics: Vices and Virtues of the Democratic Hyperpower, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2008; Italy in the European Union. Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity (with Simona Piattoni, eds.), Lanham, Md, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007; The United States Contested. American Unilateralism and European Dissent (ed.), London, Routledge, 2006; Federalism and Democracy in the European Union and the United States. Exploring Post-National Governance (ed.), London, Routledge, 2005; Italy Between Europeanization and Domestic Politics (with V. Della Sala, eds), New York, N.Y. Oxford, Berghahn, 2004.
