Personal profile:

Degree in Political Sciences in 2000 at University of Florence, dissertation on "Us-Italy relations and the Achille Lauro hijacking"; Ph.D. in History of International Relations in the same university, with a thesis on US-Israel relations; from friendship to alliance? (1953 -1963)", both supervised by Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo.
Research fellow at University of Florence

2008-2009: Integrazione di insegnamento (assistant lecturer) of History of International Relations, University of Florence
2007-2008: Docente a contratto (lecturer) of History of North America, University of Florence

Conferences:
(with M. Trentin) Chair of "Middle Eastern matrix? The transfer of political violence in Middle East", panel at the Conference of Middle East Studies Society (SeSaMO), Turin, 16-18 November
Discussant at "Workshop on the Educational Programme in Nuclear Security", IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, 26-28 March 2008
Discussant at 97th Dahlem Workshop: "The Globalization of Knowledge, in the group "Modeling diffusion of knowledge", Berlin, 18-23 November 2007
Scientific Committee of the international conference "Nuclear Proliferation: Historical and Current Problems", Florence, 4-5 October 2007
Organizing Committee of the international conference "From Helsinki to Gorbachev: The Globalization of Bipolar Confrontation (1975-1985)" Artimino (Florence), 26-28 April 2006
Paper presented on invitation at the international conference "Italian Foreign Policy in the Eighties", Rome, 17-18 January 2002

Publications:

- "Il caso Achille Lauro e le sue conseguenze", in E. Di Nolfo (ed.), La politica estera italiana negli anni Ottanta (Marsilio: Venice, 2007);
- Al centro del Mediterraneo o nell'occhio del ciclone? Iniziative di pace, rapporti transatlantici e terrorismo nell'Italia degli anni Ottanta, in F. Cresti, A. Melcangi, D. Melfa (ed.s), Spazio privato, spazio pubblico e società civile in Medio Oriente e Africa del Nord (Giuffré: Milan 2008)
- (with D. Basosi and A. Romano) From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975-1985: The Globalization of Bipolar Confrontation, research note in C. Ostermann (ed.) "Cold War International History Project Bulletin", n. 16, 2007/2008, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholar;
- Waiting for Dimona: the United States and the Israeli Making Up of Nuclear Capability, "Cold War History" 2009 (forthcoming);
- (with A. Baracca, R. Braun, L. Nuti, A. Presas i Puig, J. Renn, Nuclear Proliferation: Historical and Current Problems, Max Planck Institute for History of Science Preprint series, Berlin 2009 (forthcoming).

Areas of Interest:

- Middle East & North Africa
- International Terrorism
- Atomic Energy Issues

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