Preface to Solutions and Failures

This book is the outcome of a collaborative research project financed by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto, which has awarded a generous two-year grant in 2012, and the Foundation for World Wide Cooperation, founded by Romano Prodi. The project was coordinated by the University of Bologna and the Research Project on International Politics and Conflict Resolution of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento and involved two further research units at Columbia University and the University of California at Irvine. Trento provides an ideal environment to study international politics, given the presence of the university, its location on the Italian border and in the heart of Europe, and its history within the multinational Habsburg Empire.