Professor Luca Ratti University of Rome 3
Biography: He is Associate Professor in History of International Relations with the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Adjunct Professor in International Relations with the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Rome III. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the American University of Rome. His research and teaching interests include post-World War Two international history, specifically U.S.-European relations, NATO’s evolution and European security and defense policies, and international relations theory. He is particularly interested in the post-Cold War challenges for NATO, Anglo-American relations and Germany in the Cold War and after, and in the broader question of the changing nature of regional and world security. He received his PhD in International Relations from University of Wales at Cardiff.
He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, Rome Campus and held other positions with academic institutions in Europe. He is a contributing scholar with the Centre for Foreign Policy and Security Studies (CFPSS).
His research and teaching interests include post-World War Two international history, specifically US-European relations, NATO’s evolution and European security and defense policies, and international relations theory. He is particularly interested in the post-Cold War challenges for NATO, Anglo-American relations and Germany in the Cold War and after, and in the broader question of the changing nature of regional and world security. Dr. Ratti completed a research project with a grant from the Italian Ministry of Education and Scientific Research which focused on US-European relations and security issues from the Near to the Far East. HIs publications include several books and edited books, numerous chapters in edited volumes and many journal articles. He received his PhD in International Relations from University of Wales at Cardiff.
His latest publications include:
- ‘The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy from Maastricht to Lisbon: Mission Unaccomplished’, Acta Histriae, Vol. 26, no. 3, 2018.
- A Not So Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
He is a Visiting Scholar at Carleton University with the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) and will be co-teaching a course entitled, European Integration and European Security, with Professor Joan DeBardeleben. Dr. Ratti will offer a public lecture at Carleton University on the implications of the Franco-German Treaty of Aachen for European Security.
