Matteo Mondani is a Research Intern at Topchubashov Center from Italy. He is a third-year bachelor student of Internatational and Diplomatic Sciences (SID) at Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, taking place at Forlì’s campus. His research interests include diplomacy, Italian foreign policy towards Middle East and South Caucasus, energetic infrastructural development and international relations in Central Asia, with a focus on security perspective and commercial issues of the Caspian Sea.