Carlo Tognato is Director of the Initiative on Multipolarity and International Transition (I-MInT) at the Global Center for Peace Innovation and Visiting Professor of World Politics at the Department of Regional Studies at the UN-Mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica. Before joining UPEACE, he was Research Fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota; Senior Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University; and Director of the Center for Social Studies at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá), where he also held the position of Associate Professor of Sociology. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and a B.A./M.A. in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan. His current research explores civil degradation in Western liberal democracies and its implications for the international liberal order, as well as for the prospects of hegemonic transition and the emergence and consolidation of a multipolar world order.
