Professor University of Bologna
Giuseppe Spagnulo, who graduated in 2015 with the title of Master’s Degree in International Relations with top marks, publishes his thesis “Michele Cifarelli and Italian political life (1938-1954)”. The thesis was subsequently developed in a monograph published in 2018 by Rubbettino: “A young liberal from the South, Michele Cifarelli and Italian political life from fascism to the pro-European season”. In May 2019 the volume was presented at the “Giovanni Spadolini” Library of the Senate of the Republic. In March 2019 he obtained the title of PhD in “Human Relations Sciences” with the thesis topic: India and Pakistan in the foreign policy of republican Italy (1944-1975).
In 2019 he signed a collaboration contract at the “Regional History Competence Center” belonging to the Free University of Bolzano for the execution of the research project “Census of archive sources for a history of Alto Adige between terrorism and diplomatic solution ( 1956-1969)”.
He was entrusted with independent work by the Free University of Bolzano to carry out the project: Soil – The “conquest of the soil”. National settlement policies in Alto Adige between fascism and the Republic.
After obtaining his doctorate in March 2019 Giuseppe Spagnulo concluded many publications including the development of his thesis for the types of Le Monnier-Mondadori: The Risorgimento of Asia. India and Pakistan in the foreign policy of republican Italy (1946-1980); he published the essay for the magazine «Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace»: The search for a role in Asia and the Middle East: IsMEO in the re-foundation of Italian foreign policy (1947-1958); an essay in English for the «Rivista di Studi Orientali»: Insightful intuitions and old prejudices: Giuseppe Tucci’s Eurasianism in his “political reports” on 1950s Asia; an article in a collective volume: The balance of implications and the difficult neutrality between Italy and Germany from 24 May 1915 to 28 August 1916, in AA.VV., La Guerra di Cadorna (1915-1917) (Rome, SME historical office , 2018).
He also carried out an archival investigation on behalf of the “Regional History Competence Center” of the Free University of Bolzano to carry out the project: Census of archival sources for a history of Alto Adige between terrorism and diplomatic solution (1956-1969) .
He has written reviews on history books, published on the Corriere della Sera blog La nostra storia, and the online magazine L’entità di Clio.
Since 2016 Giuseppe Spagnulo has been carrying out teaching collaboration activities at the chairs of Contemporary History and History of International Relations of the Department of Political Sciences of the “Aldo Moro” University of Bari and professor of History of International Relations at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. His fields of research are the history of republican Italy’s foreign policy and its relations with the Indian Subcontinent.