Michael Chiaruzzi

Michele is the director and founder of the Research Centre for International Relations (CRRI), where he led the San Marino research group of the Erasmus+ project Challenges to European Small States (2018-2021). The CRRI was the first San Marino institution to win a European grant. He has held the role of Rector's Delegate for International Affairs since 2021 and was appointed to the Board of Directors for two terms (2014-2017, 2020-2023). Professor of History of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Bologna, he is a Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the universities of London (London School of Economics and Political Science), Cambridge, Queensland, Brown University, Dickinson College, and Trento. He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from Bologna and was a fellow at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici, under the guidance of Angelo Panebianco and the direction of Luciano Canfora. He studies the complex of authors and themes within which Martin Wight fits, and has published two of Wight's works as previously unpublished. He has worked at the World Health Organization in Copenhagen and at the San Raffaele University in Milan and the LUISS University in Rome. He is a member of the editorial board of Rivista di Politica (Rubbettino) and of the editorial board of the Critica storica series (Il Mulino). A columnist for the Giornale di Brescia, he has published with various publishers, including Cambridge and Oxford University Press, Tirant Lo Blanch, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and in various journals, including History of European Ideas, Global Change, and International Politics. He won the 2019 ISA Topic Award from the Institute for Advanced Studies. He has a permanent photography exhibition in the Gaddi Pavilion in Forlì and a public artwork in the former Sant'Anna Chapel in San Marino. Ambassador to Ukraine, he is a 6th Dan in Taekwondo.

• Foreign Relations of the Republic, in S. Pivato, L. Gorgolini (eds.), History of San Marino. Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary Ages, Twentieth Century and Present Time (Rimini: Bookstones, 2026, pp. 105-119).
• Yearbook of San Marino Foreign Policy 1-2025 (San Marino: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2026).
• Why Ukraine Fights. Proceedings of a Panel Discussion at Dickinson College, edited with PM Pedone (Carlisle: Dickinson College, 2026).
• Political thought and international relations, co-editor A. Campi (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino editore, 2025)
• Why Ukraine is fighting, co-author S. Ventura (Milan: Linkiesta Books, 2025)
• A texture of the world (Milan: Mondadori, 2022)
• Diplomatic personae: Torquato Tasso on the Ambassador, in «History of European Ideas», vol. 48, no. 5, 2022, pp. 481-498.
• Treaties between the Republic of San Marino and the sister Republics, in State Archives, Cultural Institutes (edited by), Napoleon, the Republic, the Republics (1797-1805). Relations between San Marino, Bonaparte, and the sister Republics (San Marino: Aiep editore, 2022, pp. 15-25).
• Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics (London-New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Luck and irony in politics, edited by M. Chiaruzzi (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2014)
• international theory. The three traditions, edited by M. Chiaruzzi (Bologna: Il Ponte, 2011)
• Power politics in the age of Leviathan (Bologna: the Mill, 2008)