Women in the Mediterranean

Leila Simona Talani is Professor of International Political Economy in the department of European and International Studies, King's College London, UK, since 2014. In 2017 she was awarded a visiting Professorship at the Kennedy School of Government of the University of Harvard, USA. She was also appointed as Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy by the European Commission in 2012.Serena Giusti is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, where she coordinates the Research Group on Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. She is a Senior Research Fellow, Eastern Europe and Russia Programme, at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan, Italy. She is member of the OSCE Reflection Group on European Security - Challenges at the Societal Level and of Women in International Security-Italy. She has extensively published (articles and volumes) on the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union (EU), on European security and defence policy, on the EU's neighbourhood policy.