Personal profile:
Graduated summa cum laude
in Political Sciences at the University of Florence with a European
Integration History thesis on Regions and the European integration
process. The case of Emilia-Romagna. Dr. Romano got her PhD from
the same University, where she is currently scientific collaborator
and teaching assistant in International History and American History
with Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo.
Her doctoral project dealt with the West and the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe and analysed the complex, multidimensional
topic of Western preparation within the European Political Cooperation
and NATO, the coordination between the two level, and détente
policy in the period 1969-1975. The project was supervised by
Prof. Antonio Varsori and coordinated by Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo.
The results of this research have been presented in several international
conferences in Europe, as well as in Moscow and Washington ("Russia
and the European Union: Past and Present", International
Scientific Conference organized by the Institute of General History
of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Delegation of the European
Commission in Russia. Moscow, 23-25 March 2007. "U.S.-Soviet
Relations in the Era of Détente, 1969-1976". Conference.
U.S. Department of State. Washington, DC, October 22-23, 2007).
Her research fields of interest include: European Political Cooperation;
Euro-Atlantic relations in the Seventies and Eighties; détente;
CSCE; relations between the EC-Nine and the Soviet bloc.
Dr. Romano has extensive experience of research in several European
and American archives. She speaks fluent English and French, and
is currently learning German.
Her current research project deals with the relations between
the EC-Nine and the Soviet bloc after the Helsinki CSCE. It is
part of PRIN (National Interest Project of Scientific Research)
2007-08: "Europe, the superpowers and the rise and fall of
detente, 1969-1981", coordinated by Prof. Antonio Varsori
(University of Padua).
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"L'Italia alla Conferenza
di Helsinki 1972-75: tra cooperazione politica europea e interessi
nazionali" in Annali della Fondazione Ugo La Malfa,
Volume XIX, 2004.
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"Behind closed doors.
Contacts between EEC and CMEA in the early 70s", in Meneguzzi
Rostagni C. (Ed.), The Helsinki Process. A Historical Reappraisal,
Padova, CEDAM 2005.
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"Alleanza Atlantica
e CSCE (1969-75): prove tecniche di un "polo europeo",
in Ventunesimo Secolo, n.9 Anno V - Marzo 2006, Rubbettino.
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"La CEE di fronte
alla Conferenza di Helsinki", in Varsori A. (Ed.), Alle
origini del presente. L'Europa occidentale nella crisi degli
anni '70, Milano, Franco Angeli 2007.
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"The Nine and the
Conference of Helsinki: a challenging game with the Soviets",
in Van der Harst, J. (ed.), Beyond the customs union: the
European Community's quest for completion, deepening and enlargement,
1969-1975, Bruxelles, Bruylant 2007.
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"Western Europe's
self-assertion towards the superpowers: the CSCE chance and
its aftermaths", in Bossuat, G. and Deighton A., (Eds.),
"Les Communautés européennes, acteurs de
la sécurité mondiale. Bilan de 50 ans de relations
extérieures / " The EC/EU : a world security actor
? " An assessment after 50 years of the external actions
of the EC/EU", Paris, Editions Soleb 2007.
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"A single European
voice can speak louder to the world. Rationales, ways and means
of the EPC in the CSCE experience" in Rasmussen M., Knudsen
A., Poulsen J. (Eds.), The Road to a United Europe - Interpretations
of the Process of European Integration, Bruxelles, PIE-Peter
Lang (Forthcoming, Autumn 2007).
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From Détente in
Europe to European Détente. How the West (European states)
shaped the Helsinki Final Act, Brussels, PIE-Peter Lang (forthcoming
in 2008).
Areas of Interest:
- Nato & Transatlantic Studies
- Europe
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