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By looking at the variegated effects of the recent sequence of crises on the institutional, political and economic settings of both countries with a view to evaluate the nature and evolution of relations between Germany and Italy at a very volatile historical juncture, the volume seeks to provide interpretative tools to analyze the challenges to come.

1. Rossella Borri is research assistant at the Laps (Laboratory for Political and Social Analyses) at the University of Siena. She has extensively published on far-right parties and sovereignism in Europe and in a comparative perspective.
2. Lukas Brenner is a political scientist and lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. His research focuses on the study of populist phenomena, with a particular interest in explaining the rise of populism in the current century and the development of populist radical right parties in Europe.
3. Alice Cavalieri is a research fellow at the University of Trieste. Her main research interests concern public budgeting and policy changes in European countries. Her first book, Italian Budgeting Policy (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming in 2023.
4. Riccardo Emilio Chesta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Institute for Advanced Studies in Florence. His research interests are in social theory, sociology of expertise, social movements and political sociology. He has published The Contentious Politics of Expertise (Routledge, 2020) and together with Donatella Della Porta and Lorenzo Cini Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age (BUP, 2022).
5. Nikolaus Freimuth is Student of History at Goethe-University Frankfurt and also studied at Paris Sorbonne IV and Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna. He currently writes his master's thesis on the history of free radio in the 1970s and 1980s in a transnational and intermedial perspective.
6. Johannes Karremans is Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI). His research interests are in the fields of budgetary politics and welfare re-calibration. His research has appeared in several international journals.
7. Linda Krzikalla is graduate student in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the University of Siena, student assistant Intern at CIRCaP Lab on Sovereignist Parties.
8. Alexander Mathewes is a MA student of political science at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, where he also worked as a student assistant for the chair in qualitative empirical research methods. He previously studied and worked as a student assistant at the Philipps-University Marburg. His main interests are social scientific methodology and political theory with a comparative perspective.
9. Francesco Nicoli is assistant professor at the Politcnico Institute of Turin, and Gent University; he is also fellow at the department of economics of the University of Amsterdam and at the thinktank Bruegel. His research focuses on the role of fundamental socioeconomic crises in shaping processes of integration at European and international level.
10. Ton Notermans is Lecturer of Political Economy at the Tallinn University of Technology. He has taught at the Universities of Trento (Italy), Innsbruck (Austria), Pusan National University (Korea), and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. He has published with Cambridge University Press, Berghahn Books and in the Journal of European Integration, Politics &Society, West European Politics and German Politics.
11. Simona Piattoni is Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento, Italy, and Adjunct Researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies of the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests and fields of publication are clientelism, regional development policy, multi-level governance, European democracy and comparative political economy.
12. Ann-Kathrin Reinl is a FWO postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. Her research mainly focuses on transnational solidarity preferences within the EU. In addition to that, she is interested in studying support for EU membership, attitudes towards democracy, green issues and sovereignty claims both at the party and citizen level.
13. Mohamed Salhi is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. His main research interests include Right-Wing Populism and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). His ongoing PhD dissertation investigates the narratives of Far-Right populist parties in the time of (constructed) crises.
14. Nils Sartorius is a research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt. In his research he works on the (de-)construction of County Images, Italo-German Relations, and Radical Right Populists in Europe.
15. Michelangelo Vercesi is Researcher in Comparative Politics at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of the NOVA University Lisbon and Privatdozent at the Center for the Study of Democracy of the Leuphana University Lüneburg. His main research interests are comparative government, political elites and leadership, and party politics.
16. Luca Verzichelli is Professor of Political Science and Global Comparative Politics at the University of Siena. His main research interests are in the fields of comparative political institutions and political élites in Europe.
17. Claudius Wagemann is Professor of Political Science Methods at Goethe-University Frankfurt and also collaborates with the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (EUI) Florence. His main research interests are comparative methods, mainly Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy-sets, the application of political science methods, and various forms of political organizations.
18. Tiziano Zgaga is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He also serves as research manager for Luiss University within the Horizon 2020 project "EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy" (2019-2023). His main research interests include European Union fiscal policymaking and implementation as well as comparative fiscal federalism.