Riccardo Redaelli teaches Geopolitics at the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore of Milan. His interests are focused on Middle East. From 2005 to 2010, he was scientific manager for the Foreign Affair Ministery project on Iraq asisstance, “Engaging Iraq’s Science and Technology Community Priorities: Redirection and Retraining of Iraqi Scholars and Scientists“. He also cooperated with italian governement on Libya and is Director of Middle East Security Program of Landau Network.