Manlio Graziano

Manlio Graziano is an Italian scholar specializing in geopolitics and geopolitics of religions. He lives in Paris.
Life.
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 American Graduate School in Paris. He regularly publishes in "Limes", and he is the geopolitical columnist of "La Voce di New York". 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.
Academic career.
Besides Paris IV-La Sorbonne and the American Graduate School, 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 universities of Évry and Versailles, in the Parisian region. Previously, he worked 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 , and at the universities of Nanterre, Grenoble III, Tours, and Lyon II. He has given lectures and courses at the University of Turin, at the İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, at Hofstra University, at Stony Brook University, at Brooklyn College, at the University of Glasgow, at the KU Leuven, at the Stockholms universitet, at the University of Bath and at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome.