Ettore Greco has been the deputy director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) of Rome since 1997 and the managing editor of the IAI’s English language review the International Spectator since 1998. He has taught graduate and post-graduate courses on EU -related issues at the universities of Bologna and Parma. His research activities focus on the EU’s constitutional reform and its international role, transatlantic relations, and security problems in the Balkan area.