Personal profile:

PhD; University of Florence, Italy (2007)
Field: International History
Dissertation title: Ambivalent Times. Détente, Cold War and the Making of American Global Power, 1969-1980

Italian University Degree (110/110 "cum laude") in Political Science with a specialization in International
History and Politics; University of Urbino, Italy (2003)
Dissertation (in International History) title: The Nixon Administration and Détente: a Different Form of Containment?

At present

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship University of Tampere /Academy of Finland
Member of the Finland Distinguished Professor Program (FiDiPro), financed by the Academy of Finland
and directed by Prof. Marjatta Hietala and Prof. Jussi Hanhimaki
Research project title: "Community and Conflict: Transatlantic Relations in the Long Twentieth Century"

Continued collaboration with the Universities of Urbino and Florence, Italy

Publications:

"L'allineamento del non allineamento: le superpotenze e le "aree grigie" (with Maurizio Cremasco) in Il Terzo Mondo Addio. La Conferenza afro-asiatica di Bandung in una prospettiva storica (edited by Gianpaolo Calchi Novati and Lia Quartapelle), Roma, Carocci Editore, 2007.

"Da Kennan a Nixon: significati e strategia della 'grande distensione' tra Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica" in Letture Urbinati di Politica e Storia, Urbino, 2005.

"La 'special relationship' tra Stati Uniti e America Latina e la sua 'fundamentally repugnant philosophy" in La guerra fredda in America Latina (forthcoming).

In progress: revision of the manuscript - Ambivalent Times. Détente, Cold War and the Rethinking of American Global Power, 1969-1980 (to be completed in 2008).

Areas of Interest:

- North & South America
- NATO & Transatlantic Studies

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