Raffaele Peralta

Raffaele Peralta is a second-year Master’s student in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Padua, Italy, with a focus on history and international politics.

He was born in Sardinia in 2002 and, after completing his classical high school education in Cagliari, moved to Trento to begin a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies, focusing on international organisations and politics. During the 2023–2024 academic year, he participated in the Erasmus programme at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He completed his bachelor’s degree with a thesis on populism and the case of Podemos in Spain. During his master’s studies, he completed a curricular internship at the Italian Council of the European Movement (CIME), where he currently volunteers. For CIME, he edited the column and podcast “Disintegrazione,” in which he analysed the relationship between populism and Euroscepticism in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Poland. He is currently on an Erasmus exchange at the University of Granada in Spain, where he is writing his master’s thesis on the impact of populism on international relations.

He speaks Italian and Sardinian (native languages), as well as Spanish and English. His main research interests include populism in Western countries, the impact of populism on international relations and politics, the democratic crisis, and European and Latin American affairs.