Defunct Centro Studi Politici e Strategici Machiavelli (meaning "Machiavelli Centre for Political and Strategic Studies") is a right-wing think tank based in Italy, whose mission is to promote traditional values and conservative policies.
[1][2] The Machiavelli Centre publishes several articles and reports on its website, and organizes events and debates about political issues.
It has been founded by League MP Guglielmo Picchi; Daniele Scalea, lecturer at Niccolo Cusano University and former advisor to Picchi when he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018 - 2019);[3] and Dario Citati, at the time researcher in Political Geography at Sapienza University of Rome.
[13] According to The Huffington Post, "The Identitarian galaxy with its idea-makers [the Machiavelli Center] outside democratic decision-making venues has influenced the decisions of our government ... An unprecedented symbolic victory ... a masterpiece of metapolitics.
"[14] Communist newspaper Il Manifesto wrote that "The Machiavelli Center since the beginning of 2017 has been a real driving force behind the Lega identitarian theses ...