Alessandro Orsini

Alessandro Orsini is an Italian sociologist and scholar of terrorism who is an associate professor at LUISS University. He is the author of several works, most notably L'eretico della sinistra (2004), Anatomy of the Red Brigades (2009), and Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia (2017), attracting both praise and criticism. In the 2020s, he attracted controversy for his views over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the broader Russo-Ukrainian war.