Gabriele Natalizia (1980) is a non resident senior fellow at the Europe Center of the Atlantic Council (Washington, D.C.). He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Security and International Politics and is a member of the Ph.D. program in Political Studies. 

Since 2015, Natalizia has collaborated with the Center for Higher Defense Studies of the Italian Ministry of Defense, and since 2021, with both the Observatory of International Politics of the Italian Parliament and the Analysis, Planning, Statistics, and Documentation Unit of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also serves as Director of the Center for International Relations Studies Geopolitica.info. He has recently been selected for the 2025 Taiwan Fellowship Program and appointed as an Associate at the European Union Centre at National Taiwan University.

His research interests include transatlantic relations, NATO, and Italian foreign policy.

Among his publications: The Structural Roots of Italy’s Expanding Foreign Military Deployments. Contemporary Italian Politics (with M. Mazziotti di Celso, Contemporary Italian Politics); Il Gioco delle Grandi Potenze. La Competizione nel Mediterraneo (“The Great Power Game: Competition in the Mediterranean”) (eds., with P. Baldelli, R. Ferrara, LUISS University Press, 2024); The Return of Prometheus. Dominant Powers and the Management of Careful Revisionists. (with L. Termine, 2023, Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica); La NATO Verso il 2030. Continuità e Discontinuità nelle Relazioni Transatlantiche dopo il Nuovo Concetto Strategico (“NATO Toward 2030: Continuities and Discontinuities in Transatlantic Relations after the New Strategic Concept”) (eds., with L. Termine, il Mulino, 2023).