Manlio Graziano

Manlio Graziano is an Italian scholar specializing in geopolitics and geopolitics of religions. He lives in Paris. Graziano graduated with first-class honors in French literature from the University of Turin, the city in which he then taught for several years. After moving to France, he obtained his doctorate in Italian studies from the University Stendhal-Grenoble III, defending a thesis about Italian political identity. Thanks to the French geopolitician Michel Korinman and to Lucio Caracciolo, editor of the Italian geopolitical journal Limes, he entered the world of geopolitical studies, in which he specializes in geopolitics of religions. He teaches at the Paris Institute of International Affairs, Sciences Po, at the Sorbonne and at the College of Europe. He regularly publishes in Limes, and he has also collaborated with the journals Modern Italy, Geopolitical Affairs, International Affairs Forum, Heartland, Outre-Terre, as well as with the Corriere della Sera and Il Sole 24 Ore. The American edition of his book on Italian political identity, The Failure of Italian Nationhood, was reviewed by The New Yorker and The Economist. In June 2015 he was invited by the UN Correspondents Association to discuss his thesis about the geopolitics of religion at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. In 2021 he published Mondo birbetta!, a literary entertainment. Besides Paris IV-La Sorbonne and the College of Europe, Graziano teaches at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC), and at the Geneva Institute of Geopolitics. He also gives lectures at the Bicocca University (Milan) and at the universities of Évry and Versailles, in the Parisian region. Previously, he worked at the American Graduate School in Paris, at the four campuses of the Skema Business School (Paris, Sophia Antipolis, Lille, Suzhou), at the École supérieure de traduction et relations internationales (ESTRI) in Lyon, at la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, and at the universities of Nanterre, Grenoble III, Tours, and Lyon II.