LIVIO DI LONARDO

LIVIO DI LONARDO

Courses a.y. 2025/2026

Biographical note

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Affiliate at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2017. I study the causes and the consequences of the use of violence and the threat of violence in politics, both at the international and the national political stage. More specifically, I am interested in deterrence theory, foreign intervention, and the politics of counterterrorism. I am also interested in the functioning of democratic institutions, especially elections.


Research interests

Political economy, international relations, national security, terrorism and counterterrorism.


Selected Publications

Di Lonardo, Livio; Tyson, Scott A.
Constraining to deter
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Forthcoming

Colantone, Italo; Di Lonardo, Livio; Margalit, Yotam; Percoco, Marco
The political consequences of green policies: evidence from Italy
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2024

Di Lonardo, Livio; Tyson, Scott A.
Political instability and the failure of deterrence
THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2022

Di Lonardo, Livio; Dragu, Tiberiu
Counterterrorism policy in an uncertain world
JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2021

Di Lonardo, Livio; Sun, Jessica S.; Tyson, Scott A.
Autocratic stability in the shadow of foreign threats
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2020