Luca Castellin

Luca Gino Castellin (1981) is an associate professor of the History of Political Thought at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, where he teaches and conducts research into the history of political ideas and theories of international relations.
Following his undergraduate studies in political science, he pursued his academic career at the University of Milan, specialising in the history of international thought. He is involved in research centres and academic bodies at the Catholic University and is a member of the Italian Association for the History of Political Thought (AISPP).
His main publications include: Ascesa e declino delle civiltà. La teoria delle macro-trasformazioni politiche di Arnold J. Toynbee (2010), Il realista delle distanze. Reinhold Niebuhr e la politica internazionale (2014), Società e anarchia. La “English School” e il pensiero politico internazionale (2018) and Sotto un cielo vuoto. Il realismo politico nella storia del pensiero internazionale (2022); he has also co-edited Pensare lo Stato mondiale. Un’idea politica tra Otto e Novecento (2025).