Andrea Calderaro, PhD, is a researcher at the Centre for Media Freedom and Media Pluralism at the European University Institute. His research focuses on ICTs and International Politics, with a particular focus on internet governance, cybersecurity and conflict transformations, digital rights and freedoms, and the role of EU in the global internet policy debate. His publications include the guest-editing of Policy & Internet special issue on Online Collective Action and Policy Chance (2013), and the inaugural issue of the International Journal of E-Politics, IJEP - E-Politics in a Global Context (2010).