Welcome to my personal page. I am a scholar trained in history and political philosophy. My work examines ideology, geopolitics, and culture, with a particular focus on how ideas shape worldviews and influence domestic and foreign policy. I study critiques of liberalism from both the right and the left, and I explore how culture informs our understanding of social order and political imagination.

For two decades, I have worked on Russia’s ideological landscape and its international outreach. My current research focuses on the rise of illiberal and postliberal ideologies in Europe and the United States, with special attention to lived ideologies—how political commitments are expressed through ways of life, everyday practices, consumption, cultural codes, moral intuitions, and social attachments.

I argue that politics today is not only strained by institutional fatigue, polarization, or democratic backsliding. It is also facing a deeper challenge: a crisis of imagination. The old scripts no longer persuade; new ones are still emerging. Traditional left–right distinctions blur, while new fault lines—especially around technology and the human condition—reshape political debate. If democracy is to be renewed, it requires moving beyond institutional tinkering and reclaiming political imagination itself. 

I am Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University in Rome. From 2011 to 2025, I was Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at The George Washington University. I direct the Illiberalism Studies Program, a transatlantic initiative based in Washington, D.C., and Paris at INALCO. I also write regularly on Substack.