BINI, Elisabetta

Max Weber Fellow 2011-2012

Email Elisabetta.Bini@EUI.eu 
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 637
Office VF 56

European University Institute
Max Weber Programme
Via delle Fontanelle 10
I-50014 San Domenico

Departmental affiliation: History and Civilization
 Mentor: Federico Romero    

Prior to joining the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow, I was a graduate student in the History Department at New York University, where I completed my doctoral dissertation, titled ‘Fueling the Cold War: Oil, Economic Development, and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy and the Mediterranean, 1945-1969’, under the guidance of Professor Mary Nolan.

My research interests revolve around the history of transatlantic relations during the Cold War and, in particular, on the importance of oil in shaping relations between North Africa, Western Europe and the United States after the Second World War and in the context of decolonization. My dissertation analyzed Italy’s domestic and international oil politics between the end of the Second World War and the late 1960s, through a study of the Italian State-owned oil company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbon Agency, ENI).

During my stay at the EUI, I intend to revise my dissertation for publication. Furthermore, I plan to start working on a new project concerning international oil politics in Libya between the second half of the 1940s and the late 1970s.

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