Andrea Gilli recently obtained his PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence. His dissertation investigates armaments cooperation in Europe. In the past he has been, among others, Visiting Fellow at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in New York, at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris and at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the SAIS/Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. In 2013, he co-led the EUISS Task Force on European Military Capabilities. He recently published an article in Security Studies on the diffusion of military innovations and suicide terrorism.