Lucio Levi is professor of political science and comparative politics at the University of Torino in Italy, and a member of the board of directors of the Centre for Studies on Federalism (Torino) and editor of The Federalist Debate. He is an active member of the World Federalist Movement and the Union of European Federalists. He has authored books on federalism, European integration and international organizations, among which are L'internationalisme ne suffit pas: Internationalisme marxiste et fédéralisme, (1984; all-French text) and Altiero Spinelli and Federalism in Europe and the World (1990; all-English text).