Eugenio Cusumano

Visiting Scholar, Fulbright-Schuman Program

Dr. Cusumano holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute and a MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna and the London School of Economics.  His research interests focus on the different ways states generate and employ military power, their political, cultural, and bureaucratic determinants and their strategic consequences.  His dissertation focused on the use of private military and security services in the US and the UK.  More generally, he is interested in democratic control over the use of force, civil-military relations and security sector reform, environmental and energy security, and the external relations of the European Union.  In the academic year 2011-2012, he was a guest lecturer at the University of Maastricht, where he taught a course on EU external economic policies.

Dr. Cusumano will teach a graduate class on civil-military relations in the winter quarter.