Michele Comelli is a senior researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), where he focuses on the institutional reform of the EU and European foreign and security policy, particularly vis-à-vis its Eastern and Southern neighbours. He holds an MA in International and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Gorizia-Trieste (Italy) and one in European Political Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is also a PhD candidate in EU Law at the University of Udine (Italy). In 2006, he was a visiting fellow at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin, and at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Stockholm, working on a project on the European Neighbourhood Policy within the framework of European Foreign and Security Policy Studies.
His publications include: 
"Il tramonto del trattato costituzionale, la conferenza intergovernativa e il Trattato di Lisbona" [=The Abandonment of the Constitutional Treaty, The Intergovernmental Conference and the Lisbon Treaty], in A. Colombo e N. Ronzitti (ed..), L’Italia e la politica internazionale, ed. 2008, Bologna, Il Mulino, July 2008 'Trattato di riforma e politica estera e di sicurezza europea: che cosa cambia?' [=The Reform Treaty and the EU’s foreign and security policy], International Affairs Office of the Senate of the Italian Republic, October 2007 (with E. Greco and N. Tocci), 'From Boundary to Borderland: Transforming the Meaning of Borders in Europe through the European Neighbourhood Policy', European Foreign Affairs Review, issue 2/2007, pp.203-218 'L'Unione Europea: Allargamento e politica estera' [=The European Union: Enlargement and Foreign Policy], in A. Colombo and N. Ronzitti (eds.), L’Italia e la politica internazionale, ed. 2006, Bologna, Il Mulino with E. Greco, (eds.), Integrazione europea ed opinione pubblica italiana [=European Integration and Italian Public Opinion], Quaderno IAI no. 25, May 2006 ‘The Challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy’, in The International Spectator, Vol. 39., no. 3, July-September 2004, pp. 97-110.
