Giuseppe AMATO Supreme Court Magistrate, presently State Prosecutor of Pinerolo; previously Deputy State Prosecutor ,District Anti-mafia of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Superior Council of the Magistracy   Enzo CALABRIA Director, in 2000, of the Service Division to contrast large criminality of the Central Direction of the Criminal Police. In 2001, he assumed the post of Director of the 2a Division of the Criminal Analysis Service (interforce) in the ambit of the same Central Direction. In 2007, he was promoted Senior Executive of the State Police., and directs the Service   Alain CHARBONNIER Permanent external correspondent of the magazine, he prefers to hide his identity behind a pseudonym   Alberto CISTERNA Judge: since 2002, he has been Substitute Prosecutor at the National Anti-Mafia Direction and Professor of Criminal Procedure in the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the University of Reggio Calabria   Emanuela C. DEL RE Expert in questions of geopolitics, security and the Balkans. Professor at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Editorial Advisor of the Limes Review. She is authoress of numerous essays and volumes, among which The Pan European Corridor N° 8. CeMiss 2002. She is President of EPOS The International Negotiating and Mediating Operational Agency)   Marco GIACONI Member of the International Security Research and Intelligence Agency (ISRIA) of Paris and Consulting Advisor of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) of Washington, is Member of the Institute of International Affairs (IAI) and Director of Research at the CEMISS   Emanuele MAROTTA Director General of the State Police and is the Head of the Research Centre on the Security of the Department of the State Police. He was Director of the School of Specialization for the Police Forces (2005-2008), Director of the International Relations Service for the Department (2001-2005, and Vice Director of Europol (1994-2001)   Antonio MARUCCIA Judge of the Supreme Court, he is presently Deputy State Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutor of Rome. He was Consultant to the Antimafia Parliamentary Commission and, in 2007, was nominated Special Parliamentary Commissioner of the Government for the management and destination of the confiscated assets from criminal organizations   Alfredo NUNZI Secretary of the Council of Administration of Europol from 2001. He wa san UNO Official, Programme for the prevention of the crime and the criminal justice (1991-1998), as well as Director of the International Superior Institute of Criminal Science (1998-2001)   Matteo PIZZIGALLO Scholar of Economic Diplomacy and Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Naples Federico II. Professor at the Aeronautics Academy of Pozzuoli and is author of monographs, essays and books, among which, ‘Co-operation and International Relations (‘Cooperazione e relazioni internationali’) ‘The Italian Diplomacy and the Arab Countries of the East Mediterranean’ (‘La Diplomazia Italiana e I Paesi Arabi dell’Oriente Mediterraneo’), Mediterranean Friendships and National Interests, (‘Amicizie mediterranee e interesse nazionale’), Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean (‘L’Italia e il Mediterraneo Orientale’), Publisher, Franco Angeli   Nicola PEDDE Professor in International Relations at the John Cabot University of Rome; he is Director of “Globe Research” and is author of publications, among which Geopolitics of the Energy, Publisher, Carocci and Iran 1979 – The Islamic Revolution, Gam, 2009   Ranieri RAZZANTE Professor of anti-recycling Legislation at the University of Reggio Calabria and of economy of the Intermediary Financers, at the University of Florence. He is also professor at the School of the Tributary Police of the Guardia di Finanza. He is President of the AIRA, (Italian Association Responsible for Anti-recycling). Chartered Accountant, Auditor, Lawyer in Rome. Presently, he is consultant of the Antimafia Parliamentary Commission   Pierpaolo RIVELLO He was Head Prosecutor at the Military Attorney’s Office of Turin and is, at present, President of the Military Court Surveillance at Rome. He has taught law and military criminal procedure at numerous universities. Author of publications in the principal Italian legal journals and has edited two volumes on military justice: “Sources and Problems for the History of Military Justice”, ( ‘Fonti e problemi per la storia della giustizia militare’) and “Military Justice in Republican Italy” (‘La giustizia militare nell’Italia repubblicana’, Publisher. Giappichelli   Luciano SCALETTARI Journalist and special correspondent of the weekly, Famiglia Christiana. He works, prevalently, on organized criminality, environmental subjects and African current affairs.   Antonio TETI In charge of Technological-Informatics support of the General Direction of the University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, where he also covers professorial assignment; he is Honorary President of the Italian Society of the Informatics and Technological Sciences (SISIT). He is Professional Member of the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery and of the New York Academy of Sciences