Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, an Italian international relations think tank. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, where she focuses on the implications of the war in Ukraine for European integration. Between 2015 and 2022, she was an advisor to the EU’s foreign policy chief and vice president of the European commission