Fields of research

• 20th Century International and Transnational History
• European Integration
• Cold War
• Trans-Atlantic relations
• US History
• Migrations

Current research projects

• Looking West: the European Socialist regimes facing pan-European cooperation and the European Community (PanEur1970s) - project funded by the European Research Council
• Détente and European Integration
• Trans-Atlantic Relations in the Cold War Era
• Constructions of Europe's Post-imperial Identity

Selected recent publications

• “Cold War Anti-Communism and the impact of Communism on the West”, in The Cambridge History of Communism, Vol. II, edited by Norman Naimark, Sophie Quinn-Judge and Silvio Pons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 291-314
• with Elisabetta Bini and Giuliano Garavini (eds.), Oil Shock: The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016)
• "The Democratic Yardstick: How the United States Transformed the Grammar of International Relations in the 20th Century", in M. Fantoni and L. Morlino (eds.), The American Exceptionalism Revisited (Roma: Viella, 2015), pp. 57-76
• “Rethinking Italy’s Shrinking Place in the International Arena”, The International Spectator, 51:1 (2016), pp. 1-12
• “Cold War Historiography at the Crossroads”, in Cold War History, vol. 14, no. 4 - 2014, 1-19 
• with A. Romano (eds.), “European Socialist regimes facing globalisation and European co-operation: dilemmas   and responses”, special issue of the European Review of History, vol. 21, no. 2, 2014
• with E. Mourlon-Druol (eds), International Summitry and Global Governance: The Rise of the G-7 and the European Council, (London: Routledge, 2014)
• “Refashioning the West to dispel its fears: the early G7 summits”, in E. Mourlon-Druol and F. Romero (eds), International Summitry and Global Governance: The Rise of the G-7 and the European Council, (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 117-137
• "Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War", in G. Van Goethem and R.A. Waters Jr (eds.), American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 253-268
• “Was It Important? The United States in Alan Milward’s Postwar Reconstruction”, in F. Guirao, F. M. B. Lynch, and S. Ramírez (eds.), Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 351-364
• Storia della guerra fredda, (Torino: Einaudi, 2009) SISSCO Prize 2010