UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI URBINO

ISTITUTO STORICO-POLITICO

http://www.uniurb.it/scipol/istpol.htm

Professors: Massimiliano Guderzo, Franco Soglian, Mario Zucconi.

Researchers: Matteo Luigi Napolitano, Eleonora Guasconi.

Staff: Massimiliano Cricco.

Ph.D. candidates in History of International Relations: Fiorella Favino, Andrea Pierotti.

 

Teaching Staff

Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo
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Status: Full Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Urbino.

Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Florence, 1989); Ph.D. in History of International Relations (University of Florence, 1994). Prof. Guderzo has a long experience in students exchange programs (Florence-Budapest joint programme; joint "Tempus" and "Phare" programs coordinated by the Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato of the University of Florence together with the Universities of Ekaterinburg, Southampton e Augsburg (1993-98); and later with the Universities of London (King's College), Paris (Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Moscow's Mgimo (1996-2000); and together with the Univesrities of Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka, Mostar, Skoplje and Tirana (1999-2001). Prof. Guderzo has also contributed to the preparation of a joint Anglo-Italian-Egyptian "Meda" cooperation program currently submitted to the European Commission.

Publications

Areas of interest and research projects: History of the Cold War; History of British decolonization; Spain in the Second World War; US- Western European relations, in particular in the 1960s.


Prof. Franco Soglian
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Status: Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of Urbino

Personal Profile:
Laurea (University of Pavia, 1957); MA in International Relations (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 1961); staff member and research fellow of the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Milano, 1962-1985); free-lance writer and lecturer, contributor to a number of reviews; professor of History of Eastern Europe al the University of Urbino since 1995.

Publications:

Books:
- La rivoluzione russa (Milano, Dall'Oglio, 1968)
- L'ipotesi del tripolarismo. Stati Uniti, URSS e Cina (Bari, ISPI-Dedalo, 1976) (editor and co-author)
- La riunificazione della Germania, 1989-1990 (Roma, Carocci, 1999)

Essays:
- Fratture e crisi nel mondo comunista, in "Annuario di politica internazionale". 1967-1971" (Bari, ISPI-Dedalo, 1972), pp.141-174.
- Guerra fredda e distensione, in Scienze politiche 2 (Relazioni Internazionali), Enciclopedia Feltrinelli-Fischer (Milano, Feltrinelli, 1973), pp. 242-254.
- La politica americana e le origini dello scisma cino-sovietico (1955-1958), in "Comunit�", n. 172 (agosto 1974), pp. 71-165.
- Tito, in I personaggi della storia contemporanea (Milano, Marzorati,1974), pp. 1184-1215.
- Breznev, Podgornyj e la 'democrazia socialista', in "Comunit�", n. 178 (agosto 1977), pp. 95-128.
- Autogestione e non allineamento, in S. Bianchini (ed.), L'autogestione jugoslava (Milano, Franco Angeli, 1982), pp. 310-324.
- La crisi della distensione in retrospettiva, in "Relazioni Internazionali", n.1, anno 50� (giugno 1986).
- La 'socializzazione' della politica estera e i condizionamenti internazionali, in S. Bianchini (ed.), L'enigma jugoslavo. Le ragioni della crisi (Milano, Franco Angeli, 1989), pp. 179-188.
- L'integrazione europea e il blocco sovietico, in R. Rainero (ed.), Storia dell' integrazione europea (Roma, Marzorati-Editalia, 1997), pp. 525-560 (I Vol.), 573-615 (II Vol.).
- La crisi del socialismo reale in Europa e nel mondo, in Pontieri et al. (ed.), Storia universale. L'evoluzione del sistema internazionale verso un nuovo ordine. 1975-1994, Tomo XIII di aggiornamento del VI vol. (L'et� contemporanea) (Padova, Vallardi-Piccin, 1997), pp. 183-224.


Prof. Mario Zucconi
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Status: Professor of International Relations at the University of Urbino

Personal Profile:
Laurea; Harkness Fellowship at the Princeton University (1968); staff member and research fellow of the Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (Roma); Visiting scholar in the School of International Affairs of Columbia University; Senior Research Scholar in the University of Maryland at College Park; professor of International Relations at the Woodrow Wilson School - Princeton University (1987-88); professor of International Relations at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (1989-94); professor of International Relations at the University of Urbino since 1992.

Publications:

Books:
- (Ed.) The Effects of Economic Sanctions: The Case of Serbia (Milano, Angeli, 2001).
- MarioZucconi, Richard Ullman (Eds.), Western Europe and the Crisis of US-Soviet Relations (New York, Praeger, 1987).
- Il conflitto arabo-israeliano e il sistema internazionale del secondo dopoguerra (Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 1987).

Essays:
- Chapter "Italy", in Brian Hocking (ed.), The Reform of EU Foreign Ministries (London, Macmillan, in progress).
- Chapter "The 'external factor': The Macedonian state's security deficit and the role of the international community", in Crisis in Macedonia, Ethnobarometer, CESPI Working Paper 6 (Rome, 2002).
- Chapter " 'Protectorates' in the Balkans: Defining the present status and looking at the future of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo", in Stefano Bianchini (ed.), From the Adriatic to the Caucasus. The dynamics of (de)stabilization (Ravenna, Longo, 2001).
- Chapters "Italy" and "Reconciliation of Western Security Institutions", in M. Brenner (ed.), NATO and Collective Security (New York, St. Martin's, 1999).
- "NATO in the Mediterranean", in S.J. Blank, Mediterranean Security Into the Coming Millennium (US Army War College, Carlisle, Penn, 1999).
- "The Kurdish Question and Migration in Turkey", Working Paper, CCS and CEMES Etnobarometer Project (Rome, May 1999).
- "The West and the Balkan Conflict", in S. Bianchini and R.C. Nation (eds.), The Yugoslav Conflict and Its Implications for International Relations (Ravenna, Longo, 1998).
- "The European Union in the Former Yugoslavia", in A. Chayes and A.H. Chayes, Preventing Conflict in the Post-Communist World: Mobilizing International and Regional Organizations (Washington, Brookings Institution, 1996).
- "The Former Yugoslavia: Lessons of War and Diplomacy", in SIPRI Yearbook 1995 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996).
- "Extended Peacekeeping", in Future International Peace Operations (US Congress, OTA, Washington, D.C., 1995).
- "The United States and Western Europe", in L.C. Brown, Centerstage: American Diplomacy Since World Two (New York, Holmes and Meier, 1990).


Dr. Matteo Luigi Napolitano
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Status: Researcher in History of International Relations

Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Urbino, 1984); post-graduate course in Contemporary History , (University of Urbino, 1986); Ph.D. in History of International relations (University of Rome, 1994). A researcher at the University of Urbino since 1997, Dr. Napolitano cooperates with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and with a number of scholarly journals. In 2001 he has been Gastdozent of the Lehrstuhl f�r internationale Politik of the Ruhr Universit�t di Bochum.

Publications

Areas of interest: The Vatican Diplomacy during the Cold War period.


Status: Researcher in History of International Relations

Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Florence, 1990); Ph.D. in History of International Relations (University of Florence, 1995), Post-Doctoral Fellowship (University of Florence) 1997, Grant (University of Urbino), 2000.

Publications

Areas of Interest: Psychological Warfare during the Cold War; US-Western Europe relations in the 70s; the Role of Water in the International System.


Staff

Dr. Massimiliano Cricco
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Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Perugia, 1994); Research Stage at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (I.A.I.), Rome, 1996-1997; Ph.D. in History of International Relations (University of Florence, 2000); Post-Doctoral Fellowship (University of Urbino), 2001-03.

Publications

Areas of Interest: Libya from the origins of its independence to the Yom Kippur War (1948-1973); The Italian Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean (1967-1973).


Ph.D. Candidates

Fiorella Favino
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Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Urbino); Ph.D. Candidate in History of International Relations (University of Florence);

Ph.D. Dissertation: "G7 summits and the politics of financial crises: the case of Mexico 1994".

Areas of Interest: G7/G8 summits, transatlantic relations, international political dimension of financial crises, Latin-American economic and political development ...



Andrea Pierotti
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Personal profile:
Laurea (University of Urbino, 2001); Ph.D. Candidate in History of International Relations (University of Florence, 2002-2005).

Ph.D. Dissertation:
“New dimensions of American National Security in a post-Cold War era: Transatlantic Partnership between technological competition and European politico-military autonomy”.

Areas of Interest:
The transatlantic defense market, the evolution of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).


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