Edoardo Baldaro is FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the REPI (Recherches et Etudes de Politique Internationale) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and he has previously worked at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence and his main research interests are critical security studies, critical regionalist studies, international interventions, and African politics and security.