Trump 2.0 at One Year – Implications for the US and EU/Italy

Shefali Razdan Duggal

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Shefali Razdan Duggal was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands on September 20, 2022, and presented her credentials to His Majesty King Willem-Alexander on October 19, 2022. She is the first person of color to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Shefali is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for American Progress (International Policy Advisory Council), Council of American Ambassadors, Foreign Policy for America, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG), Women’s Foreign Policy Network, Meridian International Center, Leadership and Character Council at Wake Forest University, Focused Ultrasound Council and a Board Member of the Netherlands America Foundation.

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Stefano Costalli

FULL PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

Stefano Costalli graduated with honors in Political Science with an international focus from the University of Florence and received a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He also received a PhD from the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca. Prior to joining the DSPS at the University of Florence, he worked at the Department of Political Science at the Catholic University of Milan and the Department of Government at the University of Essex, where he is still a Research Fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP) and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Oxford. His research interests include civil wars, political violence, peacekeeping, democratization processes, ethnic conflicts, long-term consequences of armed conflict and authoritarianism, political realism, and quantitative methods for political research. His studies have been published in international scientific journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, Journal of Peace Research, Political Geography, World Politics. He has been Associate Editor (2018-2022) and is still a member of the Editorial Board of Political Geography https://www.journals.elsevier.com/political-geography. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Conflict Management and Peace Science https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cmp

Roberto D'Alimonte

POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR, LUISS-GUIDO CARLI ROME, AND NYU FLORENCE

Roberto D’Alimonte is professor of political science at Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome where he has also been chair of the department of political sciences. He is also adjunct professor in the Florence campus of New York University. Until 2010 he has taught for over 30 years at the University of Florence. Professor D’Alimonte has been Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard and taught as visiting professor in the political science department at Yale. In the Fall of 1989 he gave his first course in the political science department at Stanford University in Palo Alto and has continued to teach there as a visiting professor for a number of years. At Stanford he has also given courses on Europe in the MBA program at the Graduate School of Business and he has been for many years a speaker in the Stanford Business School’s Executive Program. His most recent research interests have to do with political and electoral change in Western democracies, particularly Italy. In 2005 he founded the Italian Center for Electoral Studies and has been its director until March 2019. Well-known as a political journalist, Professor D’Alimonte covers political events for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s major financial newspaper. He is often sought out by international media for commentary on current Italian and European affairs. His quotes have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times, New Yorker, Le Monde, Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg, Reuters. He has collaborated with former Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on electoral reform

Giorgia Giovannetti

University of Florence and NYU Florence

Giorgia Giovannetti is Vice President for international Relationships and professor of International Economics at the University of Firenze, visiting Fellow at the European University Institute and NYU, Florence, member of the “Consiglio di Reggenza” of the Bank of Italy. She is the principal investigator in Florence for the European Alliance EUniWell (Universities for wellbeing) and member of the board of the Foundation for Higher Education with Africa. She acted as Scientific Director for the European Report on Development (2008-2010), as director of the research center of the Italian Trade Institute (2005-2007), and advisor for multiple Italian and European institutions. A PhD from Cambridge University, she was fellow of Trinity College- Cambridge. She works on international trade, development economics, and European Economy. She has published in top field Journals and has been very active in policy round tables in Italy and Europe.

Silvia Menegazzi

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, LUISS GUIDO CARLI

Silvia Menegazzi teaches International Relations and Asian Studies. Since 2022, she has been responsible for the international research project Transatlantic and European Dialogue on China, conducted in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the Leiden Asia Centre. Since 2023, she also serves as the Academic Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 project.
Between 2021 and 2023, she was an EAVI Fellow at the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University). Dr. Menegazzi has held research and teaching positions at Luiss Guido Carli, CERI–Sciences Po, Roma Tre University, the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), and the University of Warwick (PAIS). She is the co-author of China’s Blueprint for Global Leadership: GSI, GDI, GCI and Xi Jinping’s Vision for the International Order (Palgrave, 2025) and the author of Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China (Palgrave, 2018). Her work has also appeared in East Asia Forum, China Brief, AsiaMaior, and ChinaFile
Her primary research interests include International Relations and global governance, EU–Asia relations, China’s foreign policy, and the role of think tanks and non-governmental actors in contemporary Asia, with a regional focus on China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula.