Sara Tavani

Personal profile:

Born in Rome, 02/11/1979

2003 – Degree in History of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Perugia (110/110 cum laude). Degree thesis devoted to the NATO Double-Track decision and the so-called Second Cold War. Tutor Prof. Fulvio D'Amoja.

2006-2008 – Ph.D. in History of International Relations at the University of Florence. PhD thesis devoted to the domestic and international dimensions of the Solidarnosc crisis . Tutor Prof. Ilaria Poggiolini, Director Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo.

October-November 2006 – Internship at the Lomonosov University (MGU), Faculty of Journalism (Moscow).

Currently – Fellowship at the Luigi Sturzo Institute (Rome). Research project entitled “The Italian Ostpolitik in Giulio Andreotti's foreign policy: between European vocation and political pragmatism”.

Languages: Italian; French; English; Russian; Polish (elementary proficiency).

Publications:

“La Naissance d'une ‘Ostpolitik' de l'Europe de l'Ouest au début des années '70 comme résultat d'une nouvelle solidarité européenne”, in L'Europe en Formation. Eurosklerosis or Europeanisation? European Integration in the Times of Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , Nice, Fall 2009.

“British Ostpolitik and Polish Westpolitik: Push and Pull diplomacy”, in Journal of European Integration History. The revival of civil society in Eastern Europe: East and West perspectives and the British role , v.15, n.2, 2010.

“L'Ostpolitik italiana nella politica estera di Andreotti: tra propensione europeista e realismo politico”, in Giulio Andreotti: l'uomo, il cattolico, lo statista , Rubbettino, 2011 (forthcoming).

Conference papers:

“Poland opens to the West: Polish-German diplomacy and Market Socialism (1970-1976)”. Paper presented at the 9th Aleksanteri Conference “Cold War Interactions Reconsidered”, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 29-31 October, 2009.

“CFSP origins and European Détente: a Common European stance on the Polish crisis of 1980-1981”. Paper presented at the 6th History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS) Colloquium,
University of Reading , 15-16 April 2010.

Publications:

"La Polonia in una nuova Europa. Le prospettive della diplomazia polacca negli anni '70" (working title), Roma, ed. Periferia (forthcoming).