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Mario Del Pero

Sono Professore di Storia Internazionale e di Storia degli Stati Uniti all’Institut d’études politiques/SciencesPo di Parigi

Mario Del Pero, Curriculum Vitae

Title: Professor of International History (Professeur des universités), Institut d’études politiques,  SciencesPo- Paris-;

Work Address: Centre d’Histoire – SciencesPo, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, Paris, 75007, France

http://chsp.sciences-po.fr/chercheur-permanent/del-pero

e-mail: mario.delpero@sciencespo.fr

Education

PhD in History, University of Milan, 1999

BA/MA in History, University of Bologna, 1995

Academic Positions

December 2023: Visiting Professor, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA), Abu Dhabi

January 2019 – September 2022: HEAD OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Directeur d’études doctorales) Center of History, SciencesPo (director of the Doctoral Program in History and the 2-Year Master of Research in History)

May 2022: VISITING PROFESSOR, LUISS University, Rome

January – June 2018: VISITING SCHOLAR, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

April-May 2016: VISITING PROFESSOR, LUISS University, Rome

February – March 2016: VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva

May 2015: VISITING FELLOW, Department of History, Northwestern University

Since September 2013: PROFESSOR (Professeur des universités) of International History, Institut d’études politiques (SciencesPo), Paris

September– December 2012: VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of History, Columbia University  

September – December 2012: VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of History, New York University

September–December 2011: VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of  History, Columbia University

Since 2010: ASSOCIATE of the Cold War Studies Programme at the Centre for International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDEAS) of the London School of Economics

2009 – 2012: ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Dickinson College, Bologna Center

January – May 2008: ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center

September – December 2007: KLUGE RESEARCH FELLOW, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC

From 2006 to 2013: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of U.S. History Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Forlì, Università di Bologna History

November 2005: VISITING PROFESSOR, Victoria University, Melbourne

September 2004 – January 2005: JEAN MONNET FELLOW, European University Institute, Florence

From 2003 to 2006: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of U.S.  History, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Forlì, Università di Bologna

February – June 2002: ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, of International History, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Forlì, Università di Bologna

September 2001 – May 2002: MELLON POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, New York.

January 2001 – June 2001: FULBRIGHT POST- DOCTORAL FELLOW, Department of History, Columbia University, New York

 September – December 2000: RESEARCH FELLOW, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Forlì, Università di Bologna

December 1997 – April 1998: FULBRIGHT VISITING FELLOW, Department of History, George Washington University.

Main Publications

(a)   Books

  1. Ten Texan Evangelicals in Rome. Micro-history, Religion and the Global Cold War (under contract with Cambridge University Press; date of publication: 2024).
  • Era Obama. Dalla speranza del cambiamento all’elezione di Trump [It Was Obama/The Obama Age. From the Hope for Change to the Election of Trump], Milan, Feltrinelli, 2017
  • Libertà e Impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il Mondo, 1776-2016 [Empire and Liberty. The United States and the World, 1776-2016], Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2017, 3rd ed. [updated and expanded version of the first edition published in 2008]
  • Spiare e Tradire. Dietro le Quinte della Guerra Fredda [Spying and Betraying. Behind the Scenes of the Cold War], Milan, Feltrinelli, 2011 (with Phillip Deery)
  • Democrazie. L’Europa meridionale e la fine delle dittature [Democracies. Southern Europe and the End of Dictatorships],Rome, Le Monnier, 2010 (with Víctor Gavín, Fernando Guirao and Antonio Varsori)
  • The Eccentric Realist. Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2009 [updated and expanded version of Henry Kissinger e l’ascesa dei neoconservatori. Alleradici della politica estera statunitense, published in Italian in 2006]
  • Henry Kissinger e l’ascesa dei neoconservatori. Alle radici della politica estera statunitense [Henry Kissinger and the Rise of the Neoconservative], Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2006
  • L’alleato scomodo. Gli Stati Uniti e la Democrazia Cristiana negli anni del centrismo, 1948-1955 [The Inconvenient Ally. The United States and Italian Christian Democracy in the Age of Centrism, 1948-1955], Rome, Carocci, 2001
  • La Guerra Fredda [The Cold War], Rome, Carocci, 2001
  1. LA CIA [The CIA], Florence, Giunti, 2001

(b)      Volumes Edited

  1. Décentrer la Guerre Froide [Decentering the Cold War], monographic issue of the journal Monde(s), 18, 2/2020 (with Justine Faure)
  • Crisi, Trasformazioni, Continuità.Il Sistema Internazionale negli Anni Settanta [Crises, Transformation, Continuities. The International System in the 1970s], Soveria Monnelli, Rubbettino, 2012 (with Eugenia Baroncelli, Antonio Fiori and Arrigo Pallotti)
  • Studi gramsciani nel mondo: le relazioni internazionali [Gramscian Studies in the World: International Relations], Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010 (with Eugenia Baroncelli, Giancarlo Schirru, and Giuseppe Vacca)
  • Le Crisi Transatlantiche: Continuità a Trasformazioni [Transatlantic Crises: Continuity and Change], Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007 (with Federico Romero)
  • Monographic issue 1/2000 of the journal Novecento on “Il secolo americano” [The American Century] (with Marco Mariano)

(c)  Articles in Peer-Review Journals

  1. “Il mid-term del 2022: quale ‘voto bianco’ per la Destra?” [The 2022 Mid-Term: Which ‘White’ Vote for the Right?], Acoma, 24, Primavera-Estate 2023, pp.109-121
  • “Religione, politica estera e attività missionaria: importanza e limiti del global turn,” [Religion, foreign policy and missionary activity: on the importance and limits of the global turn], Il Mestiere di Storico, 1/2020, pp.21-36
  • “La guerre froide globale” [The Global Cold War], Monde(s), 18, 2/2020, pp.9-30 (with Justine Faure)
  • “I neoconservatori e l’eterna Guerra Fredda, ” [The Neoconservatives and the Eternal Cold War], Scienza e Politica, 61, 2019, pp.117-133
  • “Sovereignty, Democracy, and the Risk of Essentialism. Some Reflections on U.S.-Italian Relations During the Cold War,” Histoire@Politique, 38, Mai-Août 2019 (online journal; 7000 words)
  • “Interdependence and Antagonism,” (review of Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War : A World History) Diplomatic History,  4, 2019, pp-1-5
  • “Henry Kissinger’s Three Europes,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 1, 2019, pp.5-21
  1. “Verso una nuova storia internazionale?” [Towards a New International History?], (with Guido Formigoni), Ricerche di Storia Politica, Special Issue, October 2017, pp.25-32
  1. Commentary to “Sport Diplomacy Forum”, Diplomatic History, 5, November 2016, pp.885-8
  1. “We are all Harrisburg”: Three Mile Island and the Ultimate Indivisibility of the Atom”, RSA Journal, 26, 2015, pp.143-173
  1. “American History and European Identity” (with Tibor Frank, Martin Klimke, Helle Porsdam and Stephen Tuck), The American Historical Review, 3, June 2014, pp.780-790
  1. “Gli Stati Uniti e i dilemmi della modernizzazione” [The United States and the Dilemmas of Modernization], Ricerche di Storia Politica, 2, June 2014, pp. 187-196
  1. “Wilson e wilsonismo: storiografia, presentismo e contraddizioni” [Wilson and Wilsonianism: Historiography, Presentism and Contradictions], Ricerche di Storia Politica, 1, March 2013, pp.45-58. 
  1. “’Which Chile, Allende’? Henry Kissinger and the Portuguese Revolution”, Cold War History, 4, 2011, pp.625-657
  1. “A European Solution for a European Crisis. The International Implications of Portugal’s Revolution”, Journal of European Integration History, 15, 1, 2009, pp.15-34
  1. “Mourning in America”: la storiografia scopre Ronald Reagan [“Morning in America”: Historians Discover Ronald Reagan], Storica, 38, 2009, pp.9-32
  1. “gli Stati Uniti e De Gasperi” [The United States and De Gasperi], Quaderni Degasperiani per lo Storia dell’Italia Repubblicana, 1 2009, pp.31-48
  • “I limiti della distensione. Gli Stati Uniti e l’implosione del regime portoghese” [The Limits of Détente. The United States and the Implosion of the Portuguese Regime], Contemporanea, 4, Dicembre 2005, pp.621-650
  • “Present at the Destruction? George Bush, the Neoconservatives and the Traditions of U.S. Foreign Policy”, RSA Journal, 13, 2005, pp.81-106
  • “Il Contenimento nel sistema politico italiano” [Containment in the Italian Political System], Passato e Presente, n.62, maggio-agosto 2004, pp. 25-32.
  • “American Pressures and their Containment in Italy during the Ambassadorship of Clare Boothe Luce, 1953-1956”, Diplomatic History, n.3, June 2004, pp.407-439
  • “Containing Containment: Rethinking Italy’s Experience During the Cold War”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, n.4, October-December 2003, pp.532-555
  • “The United States and Psychological Warfare in Italy, 1948-1955”, Journal of American History, n.187, March 2001, pp.1304-1334
  • “Nuove fonti per lo studio della guerra fredda: il National Security Archive e il Cold War International History Project” [New Sources for the Study of the Cold War: the National Security Archive and the Cold War International History Project], Italia Contemporanea, December 1998.
  • “Gli Stati Uniti e la guerra psicologica in Italia, 1948-1956” [The United States and Psychological Warfare in Italy, 1948-1956], Studi Storici, October-December 1998.
  • “Anticomunismo d’assalto. Lettere di Indro Montanelli all’ambasciatrice Clare Boothe Luce” [Storming Communism: Letters of Indro Montanelli to Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce], Italia Contemporanea, No.212, September 1998.
  • “L’intelligence statunitense nel secondo dopoguerra. Evoluzione storiografica e prospettive di ricerca” [United States Intelligence during the Cold War], Passato e Presente, January 1997.
  • “Il ruolo delle covert operations nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra” [The Role of Covert Operations in United States Foreign Policy during the Cold War], Italia Contemporanea, December 1996.

(d) In Non Peer Review Journals

  1. “Il legame americano” [The American Connection], Aspenia, 100, April 2023, pp.176-18
  2. “Gli Stati Uniti e la guerra in Ucraina” [The United States and the War in Ukraine], Rivista di Politica, 2, 2022
  3. “La mitologica working class di Trump” [Trump’s Mythological Working Class], Aspenia, 91, March 2021, pp.235-244
  4. “La politica estera dell’amministrazione Biden” [The Foreign Policy of the Biden Administration], Italianieuropei, 6.2020
  5. “Fragilità della democrazia” [The Fragility of Democracy], Aspenia, 90, December 2020, pp.118-126
  6. “I nove di Little Rock e la questione razziale negli Stati Uniti” [The Little Rock Nine and the Racial Question in the United States], Italianieuropei, 4, 2017, pp.1-7
  7. “Prove di Politica Estera” [Foreign Policy Rehearsals], Il Mulino, 5, 2016, pp.763-770
  8. “Quanto è fragile l’egemonia statunitense?” [How Fragile is American Hegemony?], Italianieuropei, 7, 2011, pp. 101-111.
  9. “Alla ricerca del primato (in parte) perduto: la politica estera di Barack Obama” [Searching the (Partially) Lost Primacy: the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama”, ISPI. Quaderni di Relazioni Internazionali, n.11. Novembre 2009, pp.18-29.
  10. “Il Mondo di Obama” [Obama’s World], Il Mulino, 1, 2009, pp.88-97
  11. “L’America che cambia e le presidenziali 2008” [A Changing America and the 2008 Presidential Elections], Italianieuropei, settembre/ottobre 2008, pp.8-15
  12. “Le Primarie Repubblicane” [The Republican Primaries], Italianieuropei, novembre/dicembre 2007, pp.103-112.
  13. “La storia della guerra fredda on-line: Il Cold War International History Project, il National Security Archivee l’Harvard Project on Cold War Studies” [The On-line History of the Cold War: the Cold War International History Project, the National Security Archive and the l’Harvard Project on Cold War Studies], “Contemporanea”, 10, Gennaio 2007, pp.161-167.
  14. “La politica estera di Kerry, tra interventismo liberal e cautele neo-realiste” [Kerry’s Foreign Policy, Between Liberal Interventionism and Neo-Realist Cautiousness], Acoma. Rivista di Studi Nordamericani, 28, Inverno 2004, pp.44-57
  15. “America-Europa: un alleato scomodo per un continente vecchio?” [“America and Europe: an Inconvenient Ally for an Old Continent?”], Working Paper, Fondazione Ruffilli, Guardaldi Editore, October 2003, pp.1-16.
  16. “John F. Kennedy: oltre il mito” [John F. Kennedy: Beyond the Myth], Millenovecento. Mensile di Storia Contemporanea, May 2003
  17. “11 settembre e “scontri di civiltà”: i vecchi paradigmi geopolitici nell’era della post-territorialità in Samuel Huntington” [September 11 and the “Clash of Civilizations”: Old Geopolitical Paradigms and the Age of Post-territoriality in Samuel Huntington”], Acoma. Rivista di Studi Nordamericani, Winter 2002, pp.72-80.
  18. “Ma l ’unilateralismo di Bush è davvero superato?” [Has the Unilateralism of the Bush Administration Really Disappeared?], Italianieuropei, February 2002, pp. 136-145.
  19. “Le ragioni di una guerra: gli Usa” [The Rationale for the War: the US] (with Federico Romero), Europa/Europe,  September 1999.
  20. “Tra domino e Vietnam. Clinton e le lezioni della storia” [Between Domino and Vietnam. Clinton and the Lessons of History], Novecento, September 1999.

(e)   In edited volumes 

  1. Gli Stati Uniti e la Guerra in Ucraina [The United States and the War in Ukraine], in Alessandro Catalano, Marcello Flores and Niccolò Pianciolla (eds.), Guerra Globale. Il Conflitto Russo-Ucraino e l’Ordine Internationale [Global War. The Russian-Ukrainian War and the International Order], Milan, RCS Media Group, 2023, pp.27-42.
  2. Transatlantic Relations in Brooke L. Blower and Andrew Preston (eds.), The Cambridge History of American and the World, III: 1900-1945, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp.174-195
  3. From Trump’s Europhobia to Biden’s Atlanticism: the EU and the US in Alessandro Colombo e Paolo Magri (eds.), The World and the Pandemic: Europe’s Hour, Milan, LediPublishing, 2021, pp.109-118.
  • “’Dollari, armi e parole’. I limiti e le contraddizioni dell’egemonia statunitense” [“Dollars, arms and words. The limits and contradiction of U.S. hegemony], in Mauro Cerruti and Guido Formigoni (eds.), (S)confinamenti. Esperienze e Rappresentazioni della Globalizzazione [(S)confinamenti. Experiences and Representations of Globalization], Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020, pp.47-66.
  • The Crisis of the US-Chinese Centered Globalization in Mario Del Pero and Paolo Magri(eds.), ISPI Report: Four Years With Trump. The US and the World, Ledizioni LediPublishing, Milan, 2020, pp.113-132
  • Stati Uniti e Cina: un conflitto inevitabile? [The United States and China: an Inevitable Conflict?], in Alessandro Colombo e Paolo Magri (eds.), Lavori in corso: la fine di un mondo [Works in Progress: the End of a World], Milan, LediPublishing, 2020, pp.146-157.
  • The Cold War and the Portuguese Revolution: Three Paradigms of an Exemplary Case-Study in Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Effie G. H. Pedaliu (eds.), The Greek Junta and the International System. A Case Study of Southern European Dicatorships, 1967 – 1974, London, Routledge, 2020
  • Is there a Trump Doctrine?  in Giuseppe Franco Ferrari (ed.), The American Presidency Under Trump: the First Two Years, The Hague, Eleven Publisher, 2020, pp.215-231
  • Détente and the Global Sixties, Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young and Joanna Waley-Cohen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties Between Protest and Nation-Building, New York/London, 2018, pp.277-288
  • Histoire et analyse de la politique étrangère (History and the Analysis of Foreign Policy) in Christian Lequesne et Hugo Meijer (ed.), La politique étrangère. Approches disciplonaires (Foreign Policy. DisciplinaryApproaches), Montreal, La Presse Universitaire de Montreal, 2018, pp.181-209
  • Was there an Obama Doctrine ? Some Preliminary Reflections on the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama in Giuseppe Franco Ferrari (ed.), The American Presidency after Barack Obama, The Hague, Eleven Publisher, 2018, pp.149-164
  • The United States, Italy and the Cold War: Interpreting and Periodising a Contradictory and Complicated Relationship (with Federico Romero) in Antonio Varsori & Benedetto Zaccaria (eds.), Italy in the International System from Détente to the End of the Cold War. The Underrated Ally, London, PalgraveMacMillan, 2017, pp.15-34
  • La Guerra Fredda [The Cold War] (with Michele Di Donato) in Gustavo Corni (ed), Storia d’Europa e del Mediterraneo. Dal Medioevo all’Età della Globalizzazione. VI.: l’Età Contemporanea. Vol. XV: Stati, Nazioni, Politica [History of Europe and the Mediterranean. From the Middle Ages to the Age of Globalization. VI: The Contemporary Age. Vol. XV: States, Nations, Politics], Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2017, pp.529-558
  • The End of the Cold War in the Classroom in Matthew Masur (ed.), Understanding and Teaching the Cold War, Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, pp. 84-99
  • Italy and the Atlantic Alliance in Erik Jones and Gianfranco Pasquino (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp.685-697
  • Incompatible Universalisms: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Beginning of the Cold War, in Craig Daigle and Artemy M. Kalinovsky (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, London, Routledge, 2014, pp.3-16
  • American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History (with Hans Krabbendam, Pauline Peretz, and Helle Porsdam) in Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, and Cécile Vidal (eds.), Historians Across Borders. Writing American History in a Global Age, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, University of California Press, 2014, pp.118-140
  • Gli Stati Uniti, la Guerra Fredda e i Magnacucchi [The United States, the Cold War and the “Magnacucchi”] in Stefano Bianchini (ed.), Valdo Magnani e l’antistalinismo comunista [Valdo Magnani and the Communist Anti-Stalinism], Milano, Unicopli, 2013, pp.167-183
  • The United States and the Crises in Southern Europe, in Guia Migani and Antonio Varsori (eds.), Europe in the International Arena During the 1970s, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2011, pp.301-316. 
  • La politica estera prima e dopo l’11 settembre [US Foreign Policy before and after 9/11] in Raffaella Baritono and Elisabetta Vezzosi (eds.), Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l’11 settembre [Beyond the American Century? The United States before and After 9/11], Rome, Carocci, 2011, pp.107-120
  • When the High Seas Finally Reached Italian Shores: Italy’s Inclusion in the Atlantic Communitas, in Marco Mariano (ed.), Defining the Atlantic Community. Culture, Intellectuals, and Policies in the Mid-Twentieth Century, London, Routledge, 2010, pp.161-173
  • La Politica Estera di Obama a un anno dall’elezione [Obama’s Foreign Policy One Year After His Election] in Elena Acuti and Debora Spini (eds.), A un anno dal sogno. Politica e comunicazione dell’amministrazione Obama, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2010, pp.11-32
  • Introduzione: Gramsci e le relazioni internazionali [Introduction: Gramsci and International Relations] in Eugenia Baroncelli, Mario Del Pero, Giancarlo Schirru, and Giuseppe Vacca (eds.), Studi gramsciani nel mondo: le relazioni internazionali [Gramscian Studies in the World: International Relations], Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, pp.15-30.
  • Gli Usa e l’America Latina durante le due amministrazioni Bush [The United States and Latin America during the two Bush Administrations] in Gabriella Chiaramonti (ed.), Tra innovazione e continuità. L’America Latina nel nuovo millennio [Between Innovation and Continuity: Latin America in the New Millennium], CLEUP, Padua, 2009, pp.141-157.
  • A New Foreign Policy for the United States?  in Erik Jones e Salvatore Vassallo (eds.), The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. A Story in Four Acts, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, pp.195-212
  • Le relazioni internazionali e la crisi del bipolarismo [International Relations and the Crisis of Bipolarism] in Alberto De Bernardi, Valerio Romitelli e Chiara Cretella (a cura di), Gli anni Settanta. Tra crisi mondiale e movimenti collettivi [The Seventies. Between the World Crisis and the New Collective Movements], Bologna, Archetipolibri, 2009, pp.55-65
  • Gli Stati Uniti e l’anomalia italiana [The United States and the Italian Anomaly] in Piero Craveri e Antonio Versori (ed.), L’Italia nella costruzione europea: un bilancio storico, 1957-2007 [Italy and the Construction of Europe, a Historical Appraisal, 1957 – 2007], Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009, pp.419-430
  • The Limits of Détente. The United States and the Crisis of the Portuguese Regime in Wilfried Loth and Georges-Henri Soutou (eds.), The Making of Détente. Eastern and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-1975, London, Routledge, 2008, pp.221-240.
  • “Europeanizing” U.S. Foreign Policy: Henry Kissinger and the Domestic Attack to Détente in Maurizio Vaudagna (ed.), The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth Century Perspectives, Otto Editore, Turin, 2007, pp.187-214
  • I limiti della distensione. Gli Stati Uniti e l’implosione del regime portoghese [The Limits of Détente. The United States and the Implosion of the Portuguese Regime], in Antonio Varsori (ed.), Alle Origini del Presente. L’Europa occidentale nella crisi degli Anni Settanta [At the Origins of the Present. Western Europe in the Crisis of the 1970s], Milano, Franco Angeli, 2007, pp.39-66
  • Neocon(traddizioni). Bush, l’Iraq e la fine del Consenso [Neocon(tradictions). Bush, Iraq and the End of Consensus] in Marcella Emiliani (ed.), Iraq: radiografia del conflitto Quattro anni dopo [Iraq: An In-Depth Analysys of the Conflict After Four Years], Bologna, Clueb, 2007, pp.33-50. 
  • L’Ultima delle crisi transatlantiche: l’inizio di una nuova era? [The Last Transatlantic Crisis: the Beginning of a New Era?] in Mario Del Pero and Federico Romero (eds.), Le Crisi Transatlantiche: Continuità a Trasformazioni [Transatlantic Crises: Continuity and Change], Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007, pp.111-132.
  • “Gli Stati Uniti e il dilemma italiano” [The United States and the Italian Dilemma] in Pier Luigi Ballini, Sandro Guerrieri e Antonio Versori (eds.), Le istituzioni repubblicane dal centrismo al centro-sinistra (1953-1968) [The Republican Institutions from Centrism to the Center-Left (1953-1968)], Roma, Carocci, 2006, pp.212-226.
  • “L’Italia e gli Stati Uniti: un legame rinnovato?” [Italy and the United States: a Renewed Connection?] in Federico Romero and Antonio Varsori (eds.), Nazione, Interdipendenza, Integrazione. Le relazioni internazionali dell’Italia (1917-1989) [Nation, Interdependence, Integration. Italy’s Foreign Relations (1917-1989], Roma, Carocci, 2006, pp.301-315
  • “The Historical and Ideological Roots of the Neoconservative Persuasion” in Sergio Fabbrini (ed.), The United States Contested. American Unilateralism and European Discontent, London, Routledge, 2006, pp.33-53 [a longer version appeared as “‘A Balance of Power that Favors Freedom’. The Historical and Ideological Roots of the Neo-Conservative Persuasion”, European University Institute Working Paper, 2005/22]
  • “Gli Usa e la cultura politica dei partiti italiani” [The US and the Political Culture of the Italian parties] in Giorgio Petracchi (a cura di), Uomini e nazioni. Cultura e politica estera nell’Italia del Novecento [Men and Nations. Culture and Foreign Policy in Twentieth Century Italy], Udine, Gaspari, 2005, pp.181-200
  • “1898. La guerra ispano-americana e l’impero statunitense” [1898. The Spanish-American War and the U.S. Empire] in Paolo Pombeni (ed.), Cesure e tornanti della storia contemporanea [Turning Points of Contemporary History], Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, pp.85-92.
  • “L’Italia e la comunità atlantica” [Italy and the Atlantic Community], in Ugo De Siervo, Sandro Guerrieri e Antonio Varsori (eds.), La prima legislatura repubblicana [The First Republican Legislature], Roma, Carocci, 2004, pp. 207-219
  • “I neoconservatori e l’Europa in prospettiva storica” [The Neoconservatives and Europe in Historical Perspective], in Giuseppe Vacca (ed.), L’unità dell’Europa, Rapporto 2004 sull’integrazione europea [The Unity of Europe. 2004 Report on European Integration], Bari, Dedalo, 2004, pp. 87-120
  • “L’antifascismo nella politica estera statunitense” [Anti-fascism in U.S. Foreign Policy] in Alberto De Bernardi e Paolo Ferrari (a cura di), L’antifascismo nella costruzione dell’identità europea [Anti-fascism and the Construction of a European Identity], Roma, Carocci, 2004, pp.197-207.
  • “The Role of Covert Operations in US Cold War Foreign Policy” in Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitmann and Michael Wala (eds.), Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, London, Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 68-82
  • “La Politica Estera e di Sicurezza dell’Unione” [The EU Foreign and Security Policy] in Giuseppe Vacca (ed.), L’Unità dell’Europa. Rapporto 2003 sull’integrazione europea [The Unity of Europe. 2003 Report on European Integration], Bari, Dedalo, 2003, pp.239-250.
  • “American Pressures and Italian Responses during the early Cold War” in Massimo Bacigalupo (ed.), The United States and the Mediterranean, Turin, Otto Editore, 2003, 599-609.
  • “La politica estera dell’amministrazione Bush dopo l’11 settembre” [The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration after September 11], in Salvatore Scaglione (ed.), Annuario della Pace [Peace Yearbook], Trieste, Asterios, 2002, pp. 19-28.
  • “Dall’unilateralismo al trauma delle Twin Towers. La politica estera dell’amministrazione Bush” [From Unilateralism to the Trauma of the Twin Towers. The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration] in Salvatore Scaglione (ed.), Annuario della Pace [Peace Yearbook], Trieste, Asterios, 2001, pp. 71-84.
  • “Il ruolo dell’intelligence nella storia” [The Role of Intelligence in History], in G.Fiori e L.Calcerano (Eds.), Una Storia di Spie [A Story of Spies], Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1997.

(f)       Miscellaneous

  • Author of the entries The United States, Barack Obama, and The International System for the encyclopedia “Treccani – aggiornamento XXI Secolo”, Rome 2015
  • author of the entry The Crisis of the International Organisms  for the encyclopedia “Treccani – aggiornamento XXI Secolo”, Rome 2010
  • author of the entry United States for the Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Cold War, London, 2008
  • author of the entries NATO, United Nations and International Politics for the encyclopedia “Treccani– aggiornamento XXI Secolo”, Rome 2007
  • editorialist for the daily newspapers “Il Messagero” (Rome) and “Il Mattino” (Naples) [from 2008 to 2017]; il “Giornale di Brescia” [from 2009 to today]; the “Aaargaeur Zeitung” [From 2000 to 2014] and for the online platforms of the ISPI-Institute and the Italian National Encyclopedia “Atlante Treccani”
  • Commentator for the Italian public radio (RAI), the Italian public TV (RAI) The Swiss Public Radio (RSI), the national radio networks “Radio Popolare” and “Radio 24”, and the TV news channel “Sky News”. Interviews with BBC World Service, National Public Radio (NPR), Euronews and France 24.
  • Opinion Pieces for the “Washington Post,” “Le Monde,” “The Politico,” “Le Figaro,” “The Guardian,” “The Hill,” and the “Los Angeles Review of Books”
  • Personal blog: https://wordpress.com/view/united-states-world.com
  • Blind Reviewer for: Journals: Diplomatic History, Histoire&Politique, International History Review, Review of International Studies, Cold War History, Strategic Studies, Journal of American Studies, Contemporary European History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Ventesimo Secolo, Contemporanea, Meridiana, Ricerche di Storia Politica, Modern American History; Presses: Columbia University Press; Cornell University Press; The University of North Carolina Press; Palgrave; Routledge; The University of Kentucky Press.
  • Reviews for: Passato e Presente, Ricerche di Storia Politica, Il Mestiere di Storico, The British Scholar, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, The Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, International History Review, Cold War History, H-Diplo, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Cold War Studies, The Washington Post, The Mekong Review, Il Sole 24 Ore

             e) Long Reviews (more than 2,000 words)

  1. Gary Bass, The Blood Telegram. Kissinger, Nixon and a Forgotten Genocide (New York, Knopf, 2013), « H-Net », June 2015
  2. Daniel Sargent, A Superpower Transformed. The Remaking of American Foreign relations in the 1970s (New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016), « H-Net », January 2016
  3. Niall Ferguson, Kissinger. Volume I, 1923-1968 : the Idealist (New York, Penguin Press, 2015), « H-Net », September 2016
  4.  Susan Pedersen, The Guardians : the League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015), « Il Mestiere di Storico », 1, 2017
  5. A.G. Hopkins, American Empire : A Global History (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018), « H-Net », April 2019
  6. Fredrik Logevall.  JFK: Coming of the American Century, 1917-1956 (New York, Random House, 2020), « H-Net », May 2021

Languages: Fluent in Italian, English and French; read only: German, Portuguese and Spanish

Awards, Fellowships

2020: SAB Grants SciencesPo, Project “From Human Rights to Sovereignty Bindingness: a Historical Test Case” (with Paul-André Rosental) (55,000 euro)

2018: Winner of the Literary Award “Città di Grottammare” (for the book “Era Obama”)

2018: SciencesPo-Colmex Grant for the Project “The Origins of NAFTA” (PI with Vanni Pettinà) ($16,000)

2017: Critics’ Choice Award, Literary Award “Milano International” (for the book “Era Obama”)

2017: Winner of the Literary Award “Città di Como” (for the book “Era Obama”)

2017: Winner of the Literary Award “Premio Letterario Internazionale Montefiore” (for the book “Era Obama”)

2016: SciencesPo-Princeton Grant for the project “Narratives of the Global” (Principal Investigator along with three other PIs: Karoline Postel-Vinay, Jeremy Adelman and John Ikenberry) ($80,000)

2016: SAB Grants SciencesPo, Seed Money for Research on “Micro-History, Religion and US Foreign Policy During the Early Cold War” ($20,000)

2016: Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri ($ 1,300)

2016: Moody Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas ($1,300)

2016: 1-month Visiting Professorship, Department of International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva ($ 12,000)

2015: 1-month Visiting Scholarship, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University ($ 4,000)

2011: 4-month stipendiary fellowship from the Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tamiment Library, New York University ($12,000)

2009: Finalist SISSCO Prize, awarded by the Italian Society of Contemporary Historians to the best book of contemporary history published in 2009

2007: John W. Kluge Research Fellowship, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC ($ 16,800)

2005: Visiting Professorship, Victoria University Melbourne ($1,000)

2004: Jean Monnet research fellowship, European University Institute, Florence. ($15,000)

2002: Internationalization of Research Prize, Università di Bologna ($2,500)

2002: Finalist Acqui Storia Prize awarded by the city of Acqui Terme to the best book on 19th and 20th century history published in 2001.

2002: Finalist SISSCO Prize, awarded by the Italian Society of Contemporary Historians to the best book of contemporary history published in 2001 

2002: Travel Grant, Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan. ($1,500)

2001: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, New York. ($40,000)

2000: Fulbright research fellowship, Department of History, Columbia University, New York ($15,000)

2000-: Two-year research fellowship from the Facoltà di Scienze Politiche di Forlì, Università di Bologna. ($50,000)

2000: David Thelen Prize of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best article of American History written in a foreign language ($1,000)

1997: Alberto Aquarone Prize to the best Italian honors thesis (“tesi di laurea”) in American history presented in 1995-1997. ($6,000)

1997-1999: Three-year scholarship from the Italian Government for the Doctorate Program

Other Activities

National Coordinator for the ERC domain SH6_6 (“Modern and Contemporary History”) of the “Research Projects of National Relevance” (Progetti di Ricerca d’Interesse Nazionale, PRIN) financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), 2016-17, 2018-19

Evaluator for the European Science Foundation

Evaluator for the Research Council of Norway

Member of the Committee of the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur, HCERES), 2017 in charge of evaluating the inter-university research consortium « Mondes Américains » (American Worlds)

Evaluator for the Austrian Science Fund, 2016-17

Evaluator for the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Call of the Leibniz Association, Berlin, Germany, 2017

External advisor for the Project “Contestations of the Liberal Scripts”, German Excellence Strategy Project involving the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Centre for East European and International Studies, the German Institute for Economic Research, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, the Hertie School of Governance, and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 2019 – 2022

Senior Associate Research Fellow, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Program in History, Scuola Normale, Pisa

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan

2012-2014: Member of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

2022-2024: Member of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Committee of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

2023: Member of the SISSCO (Italian Society for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History) Committee awarding the prize for the best article published by an Italian historian in 2022

Membership

Organization of American Historians (OAH)

Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

American Historical Association (AHA)

Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO).

Associazione Italiana di Studi Nordamericani (AISNA)

Editorial Board of the journal “Ricerche di Storia Politica” 2005-2016

Membership Committee of SHAFR, 2010-2013

Editorial Board “Diplomatic History”, 2012-14 and 2021-23

Member and Chair committee “Bernath Prize”, SHAFR, 2011-14

Member and Chair committee “Ferrell Prize”, SHAFR, 2022-24

Editorial Board of the journal “Studi Storici”, 2016-

Editorial Board of the “Annali della Fondazione Einaudi”, 2016-2022

Steering Committee of the School of International Studies, University of Trento

Courses Taught

(a) Undergraduate

XX Century International History

XX-XXI Century Global History

History of Transatlantic Relations

Cold War History

Modern US History

The US and the World Since 1898

(b) Graduate

US Diplomatic History

Historiography of International Relations

Post-1989 US Foreign Policy

The US and the World