Biography
Flavia Canestrini is an international and economic historian working at the intersection of globalisation, US foreign policy, and transatlantic relations. She holds a PhD in History from Sciences Po, Paris.
Her work focuses on economic sanctions in the second global era, highlighting key dimensions of U.S. power within the context of financial and economic globalisation. In her research, sanctions are understood not merely as instruments of classical diplomacy, but as mechanisms through which the United States shaped the norms of the neoliberal order, as well as key components of the infrastructure underpinning global markets. Her first monograph, based on her dissertation, is currently under review and under advanced contract with a university press.
Before joining the EUI, she was a postdoctoral fellow at LUISS University in Rome, where she researched how non-state actors participated in and challenged the expansion of financial markets. She has taught global and economic history at both LUISS and Sciences Po, Paris. During her doctorate, she was a visiting fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
As a Max Weber Fellow, Flavia is working on the European response to US extraterritorial power between the 1980s and 1990s. Her research explores how European institutions developed legal and diplomatic strategies to protect internal competition and assert economic sovereignty, contributing to the EU’s emergence as both a regulatory power and a competitive ally of the United States in global markets.