Research and Recent Publications
Dr Romano's main research interests lie in the International History since 1945, and in particular in Cold War, transatlantic relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Western Europe, and European integration. Her research extends to East-West economic relations, and to International Organisations, such as the CSCE/OSCE.
Since 2004 she has presented her works in several international conferences and workshops in Europe, the U.S., Russia, and Japan. She has published the book From Détente in Europe to European Détente. How the West Shaped the Helsinki CSCE (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009). She has also written scholarly articles and contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes. Her most recent publications include: "Détente, Entente or Linkage? The Helsinki CSCE in U.S.-Soviet Relations", in Diplomatic History, 33, 4 (2009); "The EPC Main Task: Fostering Détente in Europe", in P. Villaume and O. A. Westad (eds.), Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985 (Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010); "The EC Nine's vision and attempts at ending the Cold War", in F. Bozo et al. (eds.), Overcoming the Iron Curtain: Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011).
Dr. Romano graduated magna cum laude in International Studies at the University of Florence, where she also studied for her D.Phil. in International History. She was awarded athree-year Doctoral Bourse from the University of Florence, as well as a Research Grant from the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grant Program, Ann Arbor, MI (USA).
After completion of her PhD., she worked at the same University as Adjunct Professor of History of International Organisations 2007/2008, and Lecturer of History of North America, 2008/2009. She has also been Lecturer of History and Politics of Modern Italy at The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai, Florence (spring 2008 and 2009). Last winter, Dr. Romano was invited to give an Intensive Course at TSUDA College (Tokyo), on "The External Relations of the EU in Historical Perspective".
In March 2007 she gained the sponsorship of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy for the organisation of the workshop "50 years since the Treaties of Rome", held at the University of Florence.
Dr. Romano is scholar of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA. She has been Jean Monnet Fellow 2009/10 and then Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, until she joined the LSE in April 2011 as Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow.
Her current research, which has received a two-year funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), deals with the European Community's relations with Eastern Europe within the framework of the Cold War (1969-1985). The eventual plan is to produce a wide-ranging monograph on this theme.
Dr. Romano is also involved in three collective research projects: "La France entre Guerre froide et Intégration Européenne (1975-1985)", funded by the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; "Italy, Europe, China. Economic, political, and cultural relations in the Cold War years (1954-1971)", funded by the University of Venice; and "The roots of European recognition of the PRC, 1960-1974. National and transnational actors and strategies", funded by the University of Padua.
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