Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Turin. A former Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, he has served as the founding Editor of
OrizzonteCina, an academic journal published by Il Mulino. His main research interests are China’s domestic politics and foreign policy, and the internationalisation of China’s philanthropy. Prof. Andornino’s latest Open Access publications are "Italy’s exit from the Belt and Road Initiative: Europeanization or US leverage?” (2025, with S. Dossi and A. Caffarena),
Contemporary Italian Politics (DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2025.2543651) and “China’s pursuit of international status through negotiated deference: an empirical analysis of Italy’s parliamentary attitude” (2022),
Italian Political Science Review (DOI:
doi:10.1017/ipo.2022.12).