Raffaele Marchetti is Senior Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the School of Government at LUISS, Rome, Italy. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and his research interests concern global politics and transnational civil society. He also acts as an external expert for the European Commission and other public and private institutions on issues of governance, public policies, NGOs and security. In 2015, he produced one of the first MOOCs on IR for Iversity. In the past, he was rapporteur for the European Commission on Civil Society in Global Governance, and received the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award from the International Studies Association (ISA). Among his publications are Global Strategic Engagement: State and Non-state Actors in Global Governance (2016); Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs (edited, 2016); Contemporary Political Agency (co-edited with B. Maiguashca, 2013); Global Democracy (co-edited with D. Archibugi and M. Koenig-Archibugi, 2011); Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (co-edited with N. Tocci, 2011); Conflict Society and Peacebuilding (co-edited with N. Tocci, 2011); and Global Democracy: For and Against (2008).