Jean-Pierre Darnis is associate professor at the Université Côte d’Azur (Nice) and manages their masters degree programme in “Languages and International Afairs France-Italy relations”. He coordinates the analysis program « La France, l'Italie et leurs Méditerranées » at CMMC research Unit. He is associate research fellow at FRS, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Paris) and adjunct professor at LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome).