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Giuseppe Sacco (born August 1, 1938) is the editor-in-chief of The European Journal of International Affairs[1]. He graduated in Political Science at the University of Naples in 1961 and after undertaking his Diplôme at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales at the University of Paris - La Sorbonne, in 1966 he obtained the Fulbright scholarship at the Columbia University.

Academic career

From 1980 till 2010 Sacco has been full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, where he taught International Relations, World Economic Systems and Development Sociology. Previously (1970-1980) he was full professor of Industrial Economics and Policy at the University of Florence, and from 1981 to 1985 at the University of Calabria. From 1989 to 2000, he taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Oxford, University of San Francisco, University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, and the Federal University of Pernambuco. In addition, early in his career, he was visiting scientist at "Resources for the Future" of the Brookings Institution and at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sacco has been in charge of numerous research projects. For example, in 2006 he has in charge of the Research program of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research of Italy[2], in 1992 he was the director of the research project on "Immigration and Security Problems in Western Europe" for the Italian Military Centre for Strategic Studies; in 1991 director of the "Feasibility Study on Solar Energy Production in the Sahara Region" in Algiers; in 1989 director of economic and social studies "The Moscow Techno-park Project" at the Russian Academy of Sciences; in 1984 he was head of a mission for three feasibility studies in Malaysia for the Istituto nazionale per il Commercio Estero (ICE; National Institute for Foreign Trade)(furnishings, prefabricated building components, advanced technologies for food conservation); and in 1981 and 1982 director of the ICE feasibility study on the setting up of a fish-farming plant on Lake Habbaniya (Iraq).

International experience

From 1976 to 1980, Sacco was division director at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development[3] and was in charge of long term forecasting about the evolution of world manufacturing in the framework of the North-South Inter-Futures Project, also known as the "WA" (harmony) project. In addition, Sacco worked for the European Commission and as Italian representative at several international conferences and organizations concerning the protection of the environment, such as the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972)[4] and the International Maritime Organization. Sacco has assisted as international consultant to several national institutions, international organisations, and multinational corporations in over 40 countries. He has consulted for the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Agency for the Development of Kazakhstan, Enel, the Nigerian Salt Refining Co., Lavalin, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the African Development Bank, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Asian Development Bank, and Masterfood Int.

Publications

Sacco wrote and contributed to several international revues, such as: New Society, Preuves, Commentary[5], Internationale Politik, Commentaire[6][7][8][9], The Washington Quarterly, Politica Exterior, Politique Etrangère, Outre-Terre[10] and Limes. In addition, Sacco is (co-)author of:

  • Critica del Nuovo Secolo, Luiss University Press, Rome, 2005. ISBN:978-88-88877-87-7[11]
  • Que se vayan: l’America Latina nel sistema mondiale, Sankara, Rome, 2002 ISBN: 889005722X
  • La Polis Internet, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2000 ISBN: 8846421973
  • L’Invasione scalza: movimenti migratori e sicurezza nazionale, Franco Angeli, Milan, 1997 ISBN: 8820499991
  • Meno vincoli per l’impresa(Asian EPZs, and Europe), Euroforum, Brussels, 1989 ISBN: 882045601X
  • La Cooperazione Industriale con I PVS, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
  • Industria e Potere Mondiale, Franco Angeli, Milan, 1980 ISBN: 8820418584
  • Il Nuovo Medio Evo, Bompiani, Milan, 1972 (with Umberto Eco, Francesco Alberoni and Furio Colombo) OCLC Number: 883973
  • Il Mezzogiorno nella Politica Scientifica, Etas Kompass, Milan, 1969 OCLC Number: 9794131

References

  1. ^ cited by Raṇabīra Samāddāra, in The politics of dialogue: living under the geopolitical histories of war and peace, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004 ISBN: 0754636060
  2. ^ Research program- State structure, territorial decentralization of powers and constitutional change: from UK devolution to the regionalization process in Italy and some other EU unitary states
  3. ^ Giuseppe Sacco and Malkin Daniel, INTERFUTURES: The OECD Research Project, Futures, Vol. 9, No. 3, June 1977,pp. 255-259
  4. ^ Marco Ancora, I protagonisti - Intervista a Giuseppe Sacco: John Ruskin, da Ghandi fino a Obama, Retreived 2009-08-22
  5. ^ Saving Europe from Itself, Commentary, September 1991
  6. ^ L’Europe à la cour du Dauphin, Commentaire, N° 125, Printemps 2009
  7. ^ Italie: fin ou retour du XXe siècle?, Commentaire, N° 122, Eté 2008
  8. ^ Italie:affrontement partisan et consensus national, Commentaire, Volume 29 / N° 115, Autumn 2006
  9. ^ Appel aux armes?, Commentaire, N° 66, Summer 1994
  10. ^ Italia addio:démographie et immigration, Outre-Terre, 2006/4, (n.17).ISSN 1951-624X -DOI 10.3917/oute.017.0113
  11. ^ Il Cannochiale, Rubriche - Critica del nuovo secolo(in Italian). Retrieved 2006-06-09
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