Massimiliano Cricco

Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Post-Doctoral Fellow in History of International Relations, joint in the Faculty of Political Science and the Institute of History and Politics, Supervisor: prof. Massimiliano Guderzo. October 2001 - present.

Education

Università di Firenze, Ph.D. in History of International Relations, March 27, 2000.

S.E.U., Perugia (Italy), M.A. in European Studies, July 1996.

L.U.I.S.S. "Guido Carli", Rome, Post-graduate Course in Diplomatic Studies, December 1994-
July 1995.

Università di Perugia, Laurea in History of International Relations magna cum laude, at the Faculty of Political Science, March 1994. Dissertation: "Canada as a Middle Power. An outline of Canadian Foreign Policy in the Second Post-War Era"; Supervisor: prof. Fulvio D'Amoja.

Publications

Il Petrolio dei Senussi: Stati Uniti e Gran Bretagna in Libia dall'indipendenza a Gheddafi (1949-1973), Firenze, Polistampa, 2002, pp. 256, ISBN 88-8304-480-0.

(with Daniele Caviglia) La diplomazia italiana e gli equilibri mediterranei. La politica mediorientale dell'Italia dalla guerra dei Sei Giorni al conflitto dello Yom Kippur (1967-1973), Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, (waiting for publication).

L'ora dei giovani ufficiali. La crisi del regime monarchico in Libia e il colpo di Stato del colonnello Gheddafi nelle interpretazioni britanniche, in "Studi Urbinati", n. 52,3, anno LXVIII - 2000/01, pp. 295-319.

Ariel Sharon: da “eroe” della Guerra dello Yom Kippur a leader del Likud, "Europa Europe", anno X, n. 2/3-2001, pp. 46-53.

Gli effetti della guerra dei Sei Giorni sulla presenza americana e inglese in Libia, in Le eredità del XX secolo nel Medio Oriente (Atti del Convegno SeSaMo - Taormina 2000), edited by Giuseppe Restifo, Messina, Selene Edizioni, 2002, pp. 229-240.

The image of Colonel Qadhafi in American and British documents (1969-1971), in "The Journal of Libyan Studies", vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2002, pp. 32-40.

La vendita di armi sovietiche e italiane alla Libia nei documenti americani (1970-1972), in "The Journal of Libyan Studies", vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2003, pp. 76-86.

Il progetto "Great Man-Made River" e le risorse idriche in Libia, in "Meridione. Sud e Nord nel Mondo", anno III, n. 3-4, maggio-agosto 2003, monographic edition edited by René G. Maury: "Migrazioni: uomini, idee e tecnologie in Medio Oriente", pp. 23-33.

Gheddafi e la nuova strategia del petrolio in Libia (1970-73), in Diplomazia delle risorse. Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel Novecento (Atti del Convegno di Urbino - 11-12 dicembre 2001), edited by Massimiliano Guderzo and Matteo Luigi Napolitano, Firenze, Polistampa, 2004, pp. 231-246.

La politica mediterranea dell'Unione Europea: dalle premesse alla recente ipotesi di integrazione della Libia, in "Nike", Anno 2, n. 1, marzo 2005, pp 265-280.

La Libia e la cooperazione allo sviluppo: un caso atipico, negli Atti della giornata di studio "Tra cooperazione e politica di potenza. Le prime esperienze di assistenza allo sviluppo", organizzato dall'Università degli Studi di Perugia (Terni, 19 maggio 2004), (waiting for publication).

Alle origini dello shock petrolifero: la Libia e le compagnie straniere, 1970-1973, negli Atti del Convegno SeSaMO: "Pace e guerra nel Medio Oriente in età moderna e contemporanea" - Lecce, 18-20 novembre 2004, (waiting for publication).

(with Daniele Caviglia) Le iniziative diplomatiche italiane in Medio Oriente: dal secondo dopoguerra ai tentativi di pacificazione degli anni Sessanta e Settanta, negli Atti del Convegno SeSaMO: "Pace e guerra nel Medio Oriente in età moderna e contemporanea" - Lecce, 18-20 novembre 2004, (waiting for publication).

L'espulsione della comunità italiana dalla Libia di Gheddafi nel 1970, in "Nike", Anno 2, n. 2, (waiting for publication).

Luciano Tosi (ed.), L'Italia e le organizzazioni internazionali. Diplomazia multilaterale nel Novecento, Padova, CEDAM, 1999, pp. LII-450, in “Letture Urbinati di Politica e Storia”, 2001-2003, pp. 148-155.

Paolo Pieraccini, Cattolici di Terra Santa (1333-2000), Firenze, Pagnini e Martinelli editori, 2003, pp. 220, in "Letture Urbinati di Politica e Storia", (waiting for publication).

Research Grants

Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR), National Research Project: "From the hopes of Helsinki to the uncertainty of New International Order, 1975-1991" (2003-2005), coordinated by prof. Ennio Di Nolfo (University of Florence). Individual contribute: "The end of the Cold War in Latin America: the cases of Argentina and Chile".

Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR), National Research Project: The Origins, Development and Crisis of the "Great Détente"” (2001-2003), coordinated by prof. Ennio Di Nolfo (University of Florence). Individual contribute: "The Southern Shore of the Mediterranean and the USA-USSR dispute in the early Seventies".

National Research Center (CNR), Young Researchers Project "Agenzia 2000": "Italian Foreign Policy toward the Mediterranean during the Sixties" (2000-2001), coordinated by dr. Daniele Caviglia (University S. Pio V, Rome). Individual contribute: "The Arab policy of Italy in late Sixties and early Seventies".

Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR), National Research Project: "Natural Resources and International Studies: an Historical Approach" (1999-2001), coordinated by prof. Ennio Di Nolfo (University of Florence). Individual contribute: "Qadhafi and the New Oil Strategy in Libya, 1970-1973".

Visiting Fellowships and Stages

Visiting Researcher at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London, September-December 2000.

Stage at the I.A.I. (Istitute for International Affairs), Rome, September 1996-March 1997.

Cultural Exchange Program

Participated in the VOLVIS (Volontary Visitors) project of the Department of State of the United States of America (July 11-25, 2004).

Invited to a series of meetings organized by Office of Public Affairs of the US Embassy in Rome,
in the framework of Cultural Exchanges administered by the US Department of State (Rome, Florence, Urbino, October 2003 - June 2004).

Invited Conferences

Workshop: "L'ONU, l'Italia e la sicurezza collettiva", organized by the University of Perugia (Perugia, 24 novembre 2005).

International Conference: "L'Europa come problema. Quali confini, quale identità, quale economia?", organized by the University of Udine (Cividale del Friuli, 3-4 novembre 2005).

International Conference: "Turkey in Europe", organized by the University "S. Pio V" of Rome (Rome, October 5, 2005).

International Conference: "The Constitutions of the Churches and their Ecclesiological Foundations", organized by the Chair of Ecclesial Law of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", (Urbino, September 12-17, 2005).

International Conference: "At the Roots of the European Security System: Thirty Years Since the Helsinki Final Act", organized by the Center for Security Studies at the ETH - Zurich, in cooperation with the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Zurich, September 8-10, 2005).

International Conference: "Nazione, interdipendenza, integrazione: le relazioni internazionali dell'Italia (1917-1989)" (Padova, June 9-11, 2005).

International Conference: "El Mediterraneo, Crisol de Pueblos", organized by the University of Florence and the Embassy of Spain in Italy (Firenze, 23 maggio 2005).

International Conference "The Libyan Model: Implications", organized by the Atlantic Council of the United States and IAI, Istituto Affari Internazionali (Roma, 13-14 dicembre 2004).

Sixth Workshop of Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, organized by: Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Political Historical Institute, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (Urbino, October 1-2, 2004).

Conference "Tra cooperazione e politica di potenza. Le prime esperienze di assistenza allo sviluppo", organized by the University of Perugia (Terni, May 19, 2004).

Conference "2004: l'allargamento dell'Unione Europea. Storia, politica, sicurezza, diritto ed economia", organized by: the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (Urbino, May 7-8, 2004).

Workshop "Economie e media nel Medio Oriente e in Africa del Nord", organized by: Facoltà di Studi Arabo-islamici e del Mediterraneo, University of Napoli "L'Orientale", Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) (Naples, April 1-2, 2004)..

Conference "Federalismo: ieri, oggi, domani", organized by: Faculty of Political Science of the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (Urbino, November 21-22, 2003).

International Conference "The Middle East and the U.S./E.U. cooperation", organized by the Centro Studi Americani di Roma (Rome, October 21, 2003).

International Conference "The Road to Helsinki: The Early Steps of the CSCE", organized by: Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Security Archive, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Florence, September 29-30, 2003).

Conference "Vecchi e nuovi scenari di conflitto. Il sistema internazionale dopo l'11 settembre", organized by: Faculty of Political Science of the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (Urbino, December 13-14, 2002).

International Conference "NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Rise of Détente, 1965-1972", organized by: Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Cold War International History Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Dobbiaco/Toblach, September 26-28, 2002).

First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, organized by: University of Mainz, EURAMES (European Association for Middle Eastern Studies) (Mainz, September 8-13, 2002).

Conference "Unione Europea e Mediterraneo: problemi della cooperazione e della sicurezza"organized by: University of Florence, Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) (Florence, May 10-11, 2002).

International Conference "Diplomazia delle risorse: Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel Novecento" organized by: University of Urbino, Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (Urbino, December 11-12, 2001).

International Conference "Migrazioni: uomini, idee e tecnologie in Medio Oriente", organized by: Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO), Oriental University of Naples (Naples, November 29-30 and December 1, 2001).

Third Workshop of Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, organized by: Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Department of Studies on State, University of Florence (Florence, October 8, 2001).

International Conference "The Cold War in the Mediterranean", organized by: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Curiel Center for International Studies at Tel Aviv University, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Cortona, October 5-6, 2001).

International Conference "Le eredità del XX secolo nel Medio Oriente", organized by the Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) (Taormina, September 14-16, 2000).

International Conference "Writing the Middle East", organized by: BRISMES (British Society on Mediterranean Studies), Cambridge University (Cambridge, July 2-5, 2000).

International Forum "Euroforum '96: L'Europe sans les Europeéns: la communication en question"organized by Centre Européen de la Culture (Gèneve, November 23-24, 1996).

International Conference "Le nuove dimensioni della sicurezza atlantica", organized by Comitato Atlantico Italiano (Rome, November 4-5, 1996).

Teaching

Magistral Degree Course of History of Inter-European Relations, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2005-2006).

Seminar: "Libya and geopolitical strategy in North Africa (1951-1982)", University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2005-2006).

Seminar: "The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: from the origins to the recent hypotesis of Libyan membership", University of Perugia (2004-2005).

Lecture: "The Italian Mediterranean Policy: from the Six Days War to the Yom Kippur War (1967-1973)", University of Perugia (2004-2005).

Lecture: "The Italian Foreign Policy from the Second World War to the 1950s", University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2004-2005).

Seminar: "The E.U. Cooperation Policy since Yaoundé" and "Libya's future role in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership", "Jean Monnet" Fellowship Program, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2004-2005).

Lecture: "Qadhafi's Libya: from the Free Officers' Revolution to the current Policy of friendship with Western Countries (1969-2004)", Master in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2004-2005).

Seminar: "Libya and geopolitical strategy in North Africa (1951-1982)", University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2004-2005).

Lecture: "Libya and the Mediterranean (1943-1969)", Master in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2003-2004).

Lecture: "The US-Libyan Relations in the 1960s", University of Florence (2003-2004).

Seminar: "The E.U. Mediterranean Partnership", "Jean Monnet" Fellowship Program, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2003-2004).

Seminar: "Libya in the Mediterranean (1951-1973)", University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2003-2004).

Lecture: "Qadhafi's Libya and the Mediterranean (1969-1975)", Master in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Urbino (2001-2002).

Seminar: "The E.U. Cooperation Policy", "Jean Monnet" Fellowship Program, University
of Urbino (2002-2003).

Lecture: "Qadhafi's new Oil Policy (1970-1973)", Master in Middle Eastern Studies, University
of Urbino (2001-2002).

Seminar: "Great Britain, USA and the Mediterranean from 1948 to 1967", University of Urbino (2002-2003).

Lecture: "Libya from Independence to Qadhafi (1951-1969)", Master in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Urbino (2000-2001).

Seminar: "The E.U. Mediterranean Policy", "Jean Monnet" Fellowship Program, University
of Urbino (2000-2001).

Course of History of European Integration, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina),
2000-2001.

Course of History of European Integration, University of Skhoder (Albania), 1999-2000.

Massimiliano Cricco

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