Ilaria Cozzaglio is a researcher at the "Normative Orders" center at Goethe Universität Frankfurt. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (2018) and was a visiting Ph.D. student at University College London (2016). Her research concerns political realism as a theoretical method to address issues such as legitimacy, political progress, and populism, and has been published in several international journals, including European Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Theory and Practice, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Constellations.