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Laura Fasanaro
Curriculum vitae
Place and date of birth
Born in Aci Bonaccorsi (CT), Italy
April 29, 1972
Contact
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Office:
University Roma Tre
Department of Political Science
via G. Chiabrera, 199, 00145 Roma, Italy
Tel. 0039 347 300 4989 (mob.); 06 5733 5308 (office)
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Skype: laura.fasanaro
Current Title/Position
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PhD in History of International Relations
Lecturer (Ricercatrice) in History of International Relations at the University Roma Tre (Rome),
Department of Political Science
Education
 2006-2008: Post-doctoral research fellow at the University Roma Tre (Rome), Department of
International Studies
 1999-2003: PhD in History of International Relations at the University of Florence (Italy).
Dissertation on: La questione del carbone renano come problema internazionale nel primo e
nel secondo dopoguerra
 1998: Degree in Political Science (Laurea) at the University of Catania (Italy). Grade: 110/110
cum laude. Degree thesis on: Il fenomeno dell’Eurocomunismo nelle carte della SED
2014/10/09
Fellowships/Scholarships
 2014: Erasmus Teaching Grant at the Freie Universität (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut), Berlin
 2006-2008: Post-doctoral research fellowship at the University Roma Tre (Rome),
Department of International Studies
 2004: DAAD Research scholarship. Research topic: “The Euromissiles crisis and the reaction
of the GDR”
 2001-2002: “Giovani ricercatori” Scholarship, awarded by the University of Florence
Research topic: Il carbone come motivo di conflitto internazionale; il caso tedesco-francese
nel primo e nel secondo dopoguerra
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Laura Fasanaro
Curriculum vitae
 1993-94: ERASMUS student at the University of Liège (Faculty of Law)
Research and teaching interests
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Cold War History
History of European integration
History of Italian foreign policy
Contemporary German history
History of Communism
Teaching Experience
In Italian
 2013-14: History of International Relations, University Roma Tre, Department of Political
Science)
 2011-13: History of European integration, University Roma Tre, Department of Political
Science)
 2012-14: Lectures to PhD students in Political Studies at the University Roma Tre,
Department of Political Science. Subject: Historical research methodology
 2003-2011: History of European integration course seminars, University Roma Tre,
Department of International Relations
In English
 2009-2014: “Italy and the US: history of a long-standing interaction” course, at the Institute
for the International Education of Students (IES) Rome
 2003-2012: “Italy and the EU” course at the Institute for the International Education of
Students (IES), Rome
 2009-2011: “Politics and Economics of the EU” course at the Umbra Institute, Perugia
 2003-2005: Model EU training. Simulation of the European Council organized by IES centres
in Europe. Organization, students’ coordination and teaching
In German
 2014: Guest lecturer, summer semester. Lectures on: “Die Siebziger Jahre in der Geschichte
der Ost-West Beziehungen: Détente und Krise des internationalen Systems“; “Die deutsche
Einheit im Ausland: Frankreich und Italien im Vergleich“, Freie Universität (FriedrichMeinecke-Institut), Berlin
 2004: Seminar “Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen 1945-1951: der Weg zum Schuman
Plan und zur EGKS”, University of Marburg
2014/10/09
Research Experience
 Archival research
o Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome
o Historical Archives of the European Community, Florence
o Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv
(SAPMO), Berlin
o Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes, Berlin;
o Helmut-Schmidt-Archiv e Willy-Brandt Archiv, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Bonn
o BStU (Stasi Unterlagen), Berlin
o The National Archives, London
o Archives Nationales, Paris
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Curriculum vitae
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o PCI Archive at the Gramsci Institute, Rome
o Bettino Craxi’s Archive at the Fondazione Craxi, Rome
o Giulio Andreotti’s Archive at the Istituto Sturzo, Rome
 Conferences
o Conference “The Italian Left and Foreign Policy”, Department of Politics and
International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, June 9, 2014. Conference
paper: Eastern European perspectives on the PCI, 1976-84
o Conference “Studiare Aldo Moro per capire l’Italia”, Accademia di Studi storici Aldo
Moro, Rome, May 9-11, 2013. Conference paper on: Aldo Moro e la questione
tedesca negli anni della distensione internazionale. 1963-1972
o International Conference “Italia 1977. Ambivalenze di una modernità”, Senato della
Repubblica, Rome, April 18-19, 2013. Conference paper: 1977: “Italien steht nicht
stille”. Immagini ed enigmi di un paese in trasformazione nella stampa tedesca
o Conference “Europa oggi e domani”, organized by TIA Association, the European
Commission in Italy, University Roma Tre November 30, 2012. Conference
presentation: La crisi attuale dell’UE come leva di una migliore integrazione politica
o International Workshop “The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and
Cooperation in Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s”, University of Copenhagen,
April 20-21, 2012. Workshop paper: Italian politics and international détente in a
long-term perspective: Developments, interpretations and protagonists 1960s-80s
o Annual Conference of the Italian Society of International History (Società Italiana di
Storia Internazionale, SISI), Florence, December 15-16, 2011. Conference paper: La
Repubblica Democratica Tedesca e l'Italia negli anni Ottanta: vincoli tradizionali e
nuove opportunità nel cerchio stretto dei rapporti Est-Ovest
o International Conference “The Presidents of the European Commission”, University
of Groningen (The Netherlands), November 18-19, 2011. Conference paper (with
Leopoldo Nuti ): So much to do at such a critical time : Romano Prodi as President of
the European Commission
o International Conference “Overcoming the Iron Curtain. Visions of the End of the
Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990”, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, June 12-14, 2008.
Conference paper: Neither in one bloc, nor in the other - Berlinguer and the PCI in
Eastern and Western perceptions
o International Conference “Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America? The Atlantic
Community and the European Idea from Kennedy to Nixon”, Roosevelt Study Center,
Middelburg (The Netherlands), September 20-21, 2007. Conference paper: The
Eurocommunism Years: Italy’s Credibility in the Eyes of its Western European Allies
o Conference “Ripensare l’Europa a cinquant’anni dalla firma dei Trattati di Roma”,
University of Urbino, April 27-28, 2007. Conference presentation: Alle origini della
costruzione europea: le relazioni franco-tedesche e la questione energetica dopo la I
e la II Guerra Mondiale
o International Conference “From Helsinki to Gorbachev 1975-1985. The Globalization
of Bipolar Confrontation”, sponsored by Centro Interuniversitario Machiavelli
(CIMA), Artimino (Firenze), April 27-29, 2006. Conference paper: Eurocommunism in
the East-German SED records
o Conference “Diplomazia delle risorse. Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel
Novecento”, University of Urbino, December 11-12, 2001. Conference paper: Il
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Curriculum vitae
carbone del bacino renano e i rapporti franco-tedeschi nel primo e nel secondo
dopoguerra
Publications
 Books
o Energia contesa, energia condivisa. La Francia, il problema tedesco e la questione
carbonifera nei due dopoguerra (Firenze, Polistampa, 2008)
o Evita Perón, a volume published in the series “Icone” (Milan, Mondadori Electa,
2004)
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 Articles and essays
o 1977, “Italien steht nicht stille”. Un profilo politico e sociale dell’Italia: Der Spiegel,
Die Zeit e Frankfurter Allgemeine, in “Mondo contemporaneo”, n.1, 2014
o Neither in One Bloc, Nor in the Other: Berlinguer’s Vision of the End of the Cold War,
in F. Bozo et al. (eds), Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe (1945-1990), New
York, Berghahn Books, 2012
o The Eurocommunism Years: Italy’s Political Puzzle and the Limits of the Atlantic
Alliance, in G. S. Smith, V. Aubourg (eds), Atlantic, Euratlantic or Europe-America?,
Paris, Soleb, 2011
o Eurocommunism. An East-German perspective, in L. Nuti (ed), The crisis of Détente in
Europe. From Vietnam to Gorbachev, 1975-1985, London, Routledge, 2009
o Franco-German Relations and the Coal Problem in the Aftermath of the First and the
Second World Wars: From Bilateral Conflict to European Energy Cooperation, in C.
Germond, H. Türk (eds), A history of Franco-German Relations in Europe: from
“Hereditary enemies” to Partners, London, Palgrave, 2006
o L’eurocomunismo nelle carte della SED, in “Mondo contemporaneo”, n.3, 2006
o Il carbone del bacino renano e i rapporti franco-tedeschi nel primo e nel secondo
dopoguerra, in M. Guderzo, M. L. Napolitano (eds), Diplomazia delle risorse. Le
materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel Novecento, Firenze, Edizioni Polistampa,
2004
o L’Italia e l’Unione mese per mese, in G. Mammarella, P. Cacace (eds), L’Europa nel
2000. Idee e fatti, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2001
 Forthcoming works
o La DDR e l’Italia dal riconoscimento alla riunificazione: vincoli tradizionali e nuove
opportunità fra Est e Ovest, 1973-90, Roma, Carocci, 2014-2015
o Aldo Moro e la questione tedesca negli anni della distensione internazionale. 19631972, ed. by Accademia di Studi storici Aldo Moro, Roma 9-11 maggio 2013, Soveria
Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2014
o Between continuity and transformation: opposite visions of Italy’s thirty-year détente,
in P. Villaume, O. Bange (eds), The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and
Cooperation in Europe from the 1940s to the 1980s, Budapest/New York, Central
European University Press, 2014
o Romano Prodi: so much to do at such a critical time (con Leopoldo Nuti), in J. Van der
Harst, G.Voerman (eds), The Presidents of the European Commission, London, J.
Harper Publishing, 2014
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Curriculum vitae
Academic associations
 Member of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA):
http://www.machiavellicenter.net/
 Member of the Italian Society of International History (SISI):
http://storiainternazionale.it/wp/en/
 Faculty member responsible for the activity of the International Association of Political
Science Students (IAPSS) at the Department of Political Science (University Roma Tre)
Academic/administrative experience
 Organization of international conferences/seminars:
o 2006: “L’Italia e la guerra del Vietnam – Riflessioni tra storia e politica trent’anni
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dopo la fine del conflitto” (Rome, 2006), sponsored by the Machiavelli Center (CIMA)
2003: “The road to Helsinki. The Early Steps to the CSCE” (Florence), sponsored by
the Machiavelli Center (CIMA)
2002: “NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Rise of Détente” (Dobbiaco), sponsored by
CIMA
2002: “Security in the Caucasus: Stability and Human Rights in the Region”
(Florence), a seminar sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry, the Council of
Europe, the Tbilisi School of Political Studies, the Georgian Embassy in Italy and the
University of Florence
2000: “Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda” (Florence), sponsored
by the University of Florence and the Stanford University in Florence
Languages
2014/10/09
Italian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
French (fluent)
Russian (elementary)
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