The choice to strengthen Italy's military is necessary if the country is to play a leading role in international politics. Factual reality has demolished the irenistic "end of history" view.

These were the words of Machiavelli Center President Daniele Scalea as he opened the first Machiavelli Defense Conference on July 13, 2022 at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

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Founder and President of Centro Studi Machiavelli. A graduate in History (University of Milan) and Ph.D. in Political Studies (Sapienza University), he teaches “History and Doctrine of Jihadism” at Marconi University and “Geopolitics of the Middle East” at Cusano University, where he has also taught on Islamic extremism in the past.

From 2018 to 2019, he served as Special Advisor on Immigration and Terrorism to Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Guglielmo Picchi; he later served as head of the technical secretariat of the President of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Central European Initiative (CEI).

Author of several books, including Immigration: the reasons of populists, which has also been translated into Hungarian.