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Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute
Villa Pagliaiuola
Via delle Palazzine 17
I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
Italy

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Present position :

  Jean Monnet Fellow 2009/2010 at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute - Fiesole (FI).
  Contract Professor of History of North America at the Faculty of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, University of Florence, Italy (Module 2 : “US foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century”).

PhD :
  Subject : « The West and the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Détente, NATO coordination and European Political Cooperation »
  Advisor : Prof. Antonio Varsori
  Research Center : University of Florence, Department of Studies on the State
  Defense : 3 April 2006

Research area :
  European Political Cooperation (EPC)
  EC/EU external relations
  Transatlantic relations in the Seventies and Eighties
  Détente in Europe : the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
  EC-Soviet bloc relations ; EEC-CMEA relations.

Selected publications :
  “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, pp.107-122.

  “Alleanza Atlantica e CSCE (1969-75) : prove tecniche di un “polo europeo”, in Ventunesimo Secolo, n.9 Anno V - Marzo 2006, Rubbettino, pp. 79-114.

  “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, pp. 115-143.

  “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 deepening, widening and completion, 1969-1975, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2007, pp. 83-104.

  “Western Europe’s self-assertion towards the superpowers : the CSCE chance and its aftermaths”, in Deighton, A. and Bossuat, G., (Eds.), The EC/EU : a world security actor ?, Paris, Soleb 2007, pp. 152-169.

  From Détente in Europe to European Détente. How the West (European states) shaped the Helsinki Final Act, Brussels, PIE-Peter Lang, 2009.

  "La Comunità europea e il processo CSCE. Da Helsinki a Belgrado", CSSEO Working Paper No. 134, June 2008.

  “La Comunità europea e il blocco sovietico negli anni Settanta”, in A. Bitumi, G. D’Ottavio, G. Laschi G. (Eds.), La Comunità europea e le relazioni esterne 1957-1992, Forlì, Edizioni Clueb, 2008, pp. 107-131.

  “The European Community and the CSCE”, in V. Bilandži’c and M. Kosanovi’c (eds.), From Helsinki to Belgrade. The First CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Belgrade 1977/78, OSCE Mission to Serbia and Žiki’c Fond, 2008, pp. 257-277. (Limited to Serbia).

  “Détente, Entente or Linkage ? The Helsinki CSCE in U.S.-Soviet Relations”, in Diplomatic History, vol. 33, n. 4, September 2009, pp. 703-722.