Gabriele Abbondanza (PhD, USyd) is Marie Curie Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Associate Researcher at the University of Sydney (USYD) and Associate Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). He specialises in Australian and Italian foreign policy, irregular migration, great and middle power theory, and the Indo‑Pacific. He has published widely on these subjects and currently teaches a number of university courses related to international relations, international security and migration studies. He frequently contributes to media, public and institutional debates concerning his fields of expertise. For a full list of publications, media appearances, and institutional engagement please visit www.gabrieleabbondanza.com.