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EDUCATION

2003-2008 Ph.D . in International History at the University of Milan, Faculty of Political Science, Department of History of Society and Institutions. Thesis title: “Ten years of relations between Turkey and the European Community (1973-1983)”.

2001-2002 M. A. in “International Cultural Management”. Sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the University of Genoa (Faculty of Political Science and Faculty of Languages and Literature).

July 2001 B. A. in History of European Integration, University of Pavia, Faculty of Literature, Department of History and Geography "Carlo M. Cipolla”. Thesis title: “Towards a Cultural European Policy: origin, development and outlook”. Grades: 110/110 cum Laude

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND FUNDING

2010-2011 Research Fellow in International History - Department of History and Geography “Carlo M. Cipolla”, University of Pavia

2008 Funding from the Italian National Research Council (CNR) – "Research Promotion 2005- Cultural identity as a Factor of Integration". Research Project: “The “Creative Chaos” of the Civil Society in Post-Cold War Europe: The New European Cultural Challenge between the Global Market and the Nation State.”

2007-2008 Research Fellow in International History - Department of History and Geography "Carlo M. Cipolla”, University of Pavia .

2005 “Sorensen” Grant - Historical Archives of the European Union of Florence from February 13 until March 15 2006. PhD thesis research

PUBBLICATIONS

Cerami C., “Turkey and Europe: the crucial transition of the 1970s”, (Special Issue on Turkey) in European Perspectives, Journal on European Perspectives of the Western Balkans , Vol. 3, N. 2 (5), pp. 13-32, October 2011, ISSN 1855-7694.

Cerami C., “Turkish – American Relations from Détente to the Renewal of International Tension (1973-1980)”, in A. Tonini (ed.), The US Friend States in the Middle East: Help or Obstacle?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2011, (in print).

Cerami C., “The Open Society and “British Soft Power” in Central/Eastern Europe at the End of Cold War” in Journal of European Integration History , Vol. 16, N.1, 2010, pp. 65-78, ISSN: 0947-9511.

Cerami C., “La pluralità dei rapporti fra la Turchia e la Comunità Europea. Analisi di un decennio (1973- 1983)” in Ricerche Storiche , Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, Vol. XXXVIII, N. 3, 2008, pp. 390 - 422, ISSN: 0392-162X.

Cerami C., “La Turchia e la Comunità Europea negli anni '70: come superare il modello interpretativo dell'”avvicinamento-allontanamento” in A. Varsori (a cura di), Alle origini del presente. L'Europa Occidentale nella crisi degli anni Settanta , Franco Angeli, Milano, 2007, pp. 95 – 113, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-464-8197-9.

Cerami C., “Le principali risorse online per la storia dell'integrazione europea: proposte per la ricerca in rete”, in MEMORIA E RICERCA. Rivista di Storia Contemporanea , Franco Angeli, n.19, 2005, pp. 193 -199, ISSN: 1127- 0195.

Cerami C., Guida alle fonti di documentazione europea in rete , Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2005. pp. 120, ISBN: 88-467-1168-8.

PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES

3-4.10.2011 International Workshop: “A Post-Kemalist Turkey?, organized by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Contemporary Turkish Studies Forum), The University of Rome Tor Vergata (CSPS, Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Post – Secular Society) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Institute of Asian and African Studies; Forum for Turkish Studies). Location: Jerusalem, Israel (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute). Presentation paper entitled: “Turkey's Soft Power in the Arab World: An Outcome of the Post Kemalist Era?”

2-3. 12. 2010 Conference: “Il Mediterraneo fra Storia e Politica”, organized by the University of Florence – Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri”, Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA), and Fondazione Bettino Craxi. Presentation paper entitled: “Definizione, evoluzione storica e attori geopolitici della regione del Mar Nero: “gateway” o “shatterbelt”?

7.05. 2010 Conference, XIV Summer School AUSE “A sessant'anni dalla Dichiarazione Schuman”, University of Genoa, Faculty of Political Science. Presentation paper entitled : “Relazioni euro – mediterranee e dinamiche di democratizzazione”.

1-2. 10. 2007 Conference: “Britain and Europe in the 1980s: East and West”, organized by the University of Pavia, IUSS, Ghislieri College, Machiavelli Centre for Cold War Studies (CIMA), National Security Archive, Thatcher Foundation (Cambridge), Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre of St. Anthony's College (Oxford), at Ghislieri College of Pavia. Responsible for organization.

27-28.04. 2007 Conference: “Ripensare l'Europa a Cinquant'anni dalla firma dei Trattati di Roma ” - organized by the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Urbino and Machiavelli University Centre for the Study of the Cold War. Presentation entitled: “La Turchia e l'Unione Europea in una prospettiva storica”.

22-23.04. 2005 Conference: “ “L'Europa negli anni'70: un momento di svolta nella storia del continente” ”, University of Padua, Department of International Studies. Presentation paper entitled: “La questione turca in Europa negli anni '70: una proposta di lettura”.

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS

Turkish Foreign Policy;

European integration and the enlargement process;

Black Sea Area;

Eastern Mediterranean Area in the 70s;

European non proliferation policy;

“Soft Power”.

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