Over the past seven years, we have had the privilege of serving as Editors of The International Spectator, the peer-reviewed journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, founded by Altiero Spinelli in 1966. During this period, we chose to guide the journal's activities according to principles of integrity, quality, diversity and sustainability, as outlined in the editorial published in 2023. Through these seven years, the journal has experienced a significant increase in readership (from...

Reviewed Book: Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: between Justice and Sovereignty. Duke Press (2025) – Delia Duong Wendel Book review by Beatrice Morani Delia [ Duong Ba Wendel’s Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2025) offers an original and visceral analysis of what she conceptualises as trauma heritage , understood as the spatialization of traumatic past events. Employing Rwanda’s genocide memorial landscape as a case study, the volume is a...

Reviewed Book: Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa. Lynne Rienner Publishers (2025) – Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg and Hicham Alaoui Book review by Antonia Ricciardiello Authored by political scientists Guilain Denoeux (Colby College), Robert Springborg (Simon Fraser University and Istituto Affari Internazionali) and Hicham Alaoui (University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University), Making Aid Work: Dueling with...