Biography

Flavia Canestrini is an international and economic historian working at the intersection of globalisation, US foreign policy, and transatlantic relations. She is particularly interested in the dynamics of global markets and how they became spaces of political contestation and competition.
She holds a PhD in History from Sciences Po, Paris. She is currently completing her first monograph, based on her dissertation and under contract with a university press, which examines how expanding markets in the 1970s and 1980s transformed economic sanctions into key instruments of international diplomacy. During her doctorate, she was a visiting fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
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.
As a Max Weber Fellow, Flavia will examine the European response to US extraterritorial legislation between the 1980s and 1990s. Her research will explore 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.

Mentor

• Emmanuel, Mourlon-Druol