Personal profile:

Marilena Gala is Lecturer of History of International Relations in the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Rome III. In 1998, she received her PhD in History of International Relations from the University of Florence. She was Public Policy Scholar (West European Studies Program) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, in 2003. She is currently carrying out research on the development of Transatlantic relationship from the standpoint of the European security issue.

Publications:

a) Books:

• Il paradosso nucleare. Il Limited Test Ban Treaty come primo passo verso la distensione , Firenze, Polistampa, 2002

• John F. Kennedy. Il presidente diventato mito di tutte le nuove generazioni (Milano: Mondatori Electa, 2004)

b) Essays:

• “Una logica e inevitabile necessità”. La ricomposizione della special relationship anglo-americana dopo la crisi di Suez”, in Storia delle relazioni internazionali , anno X-XI, 1994-1995, pp. 63-82

• “The Multilateral Force: A Brief History of the American Efforts to Maintain the Nuclear Status Quo within the Atlantic Alliance”, in Storia delle relazioni internazionali , anno XIII, 1998, 1, pp. 121-149

• “Il CES e la nascita della politica agricola comune” , in Antonio VARSORI (a cura di), Il Comitato Economico e Sociale nella costruzione europea , Venezia, Marsilio, 2000

• “Western Europe and the Negotiations on Nuclear Disarmament between 1963 and the Conclusion of the Non-proliferation Treaty: The Anglo-Americans and the Evolving Concept of European Security” in W. Loth (edited by), Europe, Cold War and Coexistence: 1953-1965 , Frank Cass Publishers, 2004

• “Tecnologia, armamenti ed equilibrio del terrore: gli anni cinquanta”, in Massimiliano Guderzo (a cura di), Diplomazia delle risorse. Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale del novecento , Firenze, Polistampa, 2003.

• “Arms Control and European Security: The Path to a West-European Settlement through Détente”, in Ennio Di Nolfo, M. Guderzo, L. Nuti, C. Ostermann (a cura di), NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Rise of Détente, 1965-1972 [waiting for publication].

Areas of Interest:

The Atomic Energy (1960-1980); the development of Transatlantic relationship from the standpoint of the European security issue.

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