Bio
Enrico is currently Bairen Jihua Research Fellow at the History Department of Beijing University (北京大学百人计划研究员), Research Associate at the Torino World Affairs Institute (TWAI) and Research Scholar of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA). Enrico worked from 2010 to 2012 as Fellow at the Science & Technology China Program of the European Commission(欧盟科技人才培训项目)a pilot program of the EU for research in China. He got his PhD in History of International relations at the University of Florence and finished his post-doc at Peking University (PKU). Enrico graduated, with a M.A. equivalent, in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna. His fields of interests are: History of International Relations, Cold War Studies, History of Sino-American and Sino-European relations and Chinese foreign policy.
Major Publications
- Enrico Fardella, "A Significant Periphery of the Cold War: Italy-China Bilateral Relations, 1949-1989," Cold War History (2016).
- Enrico Fardella, Christian F. Ostermann, and Charles Kraus, eds., Sino-European Relations during the Cold War and the Rise of a Multipolar World (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2015).
- Enrico Fardella, "Mao Zedong and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis," Cold War History 15, no. 1 (2015): 73-88.
- Enrico Fardella, "The Normalization of Relations between Italy and the People's Republic of China," in Maurizio Marinelli and Giovanni Andornino (eds), Italy’s Encounters with Modern China: Imperial Dreams, Strategic Ambitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
- Enrico Fardella, “The Sino-American Normalization: A Reassessment,” Diplomatic History 33, no. 4 (September 2009) 545-578.
- Enrico Fardella, "The Sino-American Entente of 1978-9 and Its 'Baptism of Fire' in Indochina," in Max Guderzo and Bruna Bagnato (eds), The Globalisation of the Cold War: Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85 (London: Routledge, 2009): 154-165.
- Enrico Fardella, Mao Zedong (Milano: Mondadori, 2004) (Italian) (subsequently translated and published also in Spanish, Dutch and Greek).