Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

(October 2024)

GIANLUCA BORZONI

Associate Professor of History of International Relations

Department of Political and Social Sciences

University of Cagliari, viale S. Ignazio 78

09129 Cagliari

tel.: +39-070-6753677

email: gborzoni@unica.it

Education, professional assignments, awards

Visiting Professor University of Split 2024

Jean Monnet Teaching Staff 2021-2024

Associate Professor of History of International Relations, University of Cagliari, 2014-

Researcher of History of International Relations, University of Cagliari, 2006-2014

Winner of the “Italian Young Professors” program, U.S. Embassy in Italy, 2006

Contract Professor, University of Sassari, 2002-2004

“Young Researchers” Scholarship, University of Cagliari, 2004

Tutor in History of International Relations, University of Cagliari, 2002-2005

PhD in History of International Relations, Department of Political Studies, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 2001

Diplomatic Career Preparation Course, Luiss University, Rome, 1997

Italy-United States Association Award for Degree Thesis, 1996

Degree 110/110 cum laude in Political Science, University of Cagliari, 1996

Ms-Dos Computer Operator Diploma, Adel Cagliari Association, 1996

Jean Monnet Course Diploma, University of Cagliari, 1996

High School Diploma 60/60, Liceo classico “Siotto Pintor”, Cagliari, 1990

Teaching positions, Faculty of Economic, Legal and Political Sciences, University of Cagliari

§ Environment, Development, Resources, 54-hour master's course, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2024

§ Contemporary International History, 54-hour master's course, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2017-present

§ International Politics, 54-hour master's course, Master's Degree in Governance and Global System, 2014-2017

§ History of International Relations, 54-hour undergraduate course, Master's Degree in Political Sciences, 2013-present

Teaching positions, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Cagliari

§ International Politics in the Mediterranean, 30-hour undergraduate course, 2011-12

§ History of International Relations, 54-hour undergraduate ... International Relations, 2014-2017

§ History of International Relations, 54-hour undergraduate course, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2014-2017

§ History of International Relations, 54-hour undergraduate course, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2014-2017

§ History of International Relations, 54-hour undergraduate course, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2014-2017

§ History of International Relations, 54 three-year course 60 hours, 2007-2011

§ History of International Relations, master's course 30 hours, 2006-2007, 2008-2009

§ History of International Relations in the Mediterranean, three-year course 30 hours, 2006

Teaching assignments, Faculty of Political Science, University of Sassari

§ History of International Relations, three-year course 30 hours

Academic positions, University of Cagliari

§ Member, Department Self-Evaluation Commission (CAV), Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2024-

§ Quality Manager, Degree Course in Political Sciences, 2024-

§ Coordinator, Student Delays and Dispersion Commission, SEGP Faculty, 2021

§ Department of Political and Social Sciences Contact Person for the “400 Years of the University of Cagliari”, 2020-2021

§ Member, Department Self-Evaluation Commission (CAV), Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2019-2021

§ Internship Manager, Degree Course in Political Sciences, 2018-2022

§ Quality Manager, Degree Course in Political Sciences, 2018-2021

§ Member, FIR Funds Evaluation Commission, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2019

§ Member, Self-Evaluation Commission (CAV), Degree in Political Science, 2018-2024

§ Member, Self-assessment Commission (CAV), Master's Degree in International Relations, 2014-2020

§ President/Member of Contract Teaching Committees, Macro-area 14/B2, Department of Political and Social Sciences

§ Course Coordinator, Three-year Degree in Political Science, 2016-2018

§ Course Coordinator, Master's Degree in International Relations, 2015-2016

§ Member, Department Board, Department of Social and Institutional Sciences, 2015-2018

§ Member, Teaching Commission, Department of Social and Institutional Sciences, 2016

§ Coordinator of Self-assessment Commission (CAV), Master's Degree in International Relations, 2015-2016

§ Coordinator, Steering Committee, Degree Master in International Relations, 2015-2016

§ Erasmus Tutor Jagiellonian University Krakow; University of Vilnius (2015),

§ Member, Steering Committee, Master's Degree in Governance and Global System, 2014-2016

§ Member of the Final Committee, PhD in Political Studies, “Sapienza”, University of Rome, 2018

§ Member of the Teaching Staff, PhD in History, Cultural Heritage and International Studies, University of Cagliari, 2013-2019 (Member of the Entrance Examination Committee 2013, 2018; PhD Thesis Supervisor 2019, 2021)

§ Member of the Teaching Staff, PhD in History, Institutions and International Relations of Africa and Asia, University of Cagliari, 2009-2013

§ Coordinator, Self-Evaluation Group (CAV), Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, 2006-2013

§ Member, Self-Evaluation Group, Master's Degree in Governance and the Global System, 2009-2012

§ Member, Joint Committee of Teachers and Students, Faculty of Political Sciences, 2008-2012

§ Member, Committee for the Evaluation of University Funds Area 14, Faculty of Political Sciences, 2011

Research activities

2022 Member of the Research Project Towards resilient Mediterranean communities to socio-environmental risks: Instruments, Prospects and Open Challenges (P.I. Prof. F. Ippolito, “Fondazione di Sardegna" Grant)

2022 Member of the International Project Italy-France “Galileo” Enjeux de mise en oeuvre de l'Accord de Paris – un approche comparative franco-italienne, (University of Cagliari and University of Aix-en-Provence)

2021 Member of the Research Project A Multilevel Inquiry into the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas from a Multidisciplinary (Legal, Historical and Ethical) Perspective (P.I. Prof. F. Seatzu, “Fondazione di Sardegna" Grant)

2019 Member of the Research Project “The impact of Fake News on propaganda and public diplomacy in Europe, America, Asia” (P.I. Prof. B. Onnis, Grant Regione Autonoma della Sardegna)

2018: Scientific Director of the Research Project: “National foreign policies, international organizations and the migration issue” (Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari)

2017: Member of the Research Project Soft Power of the Press, Media and Internet over the International and Domestic policies of the States (P.I. Prof. B. Onnis, Grant Regione Autonoma della Sardegna)

2015-17: Research Unit Coordinator, Project Europe, Sardinia and Africa in movement: cooperation agreements and the migration issue in the Mediterranean basin, (P.I. Prof. F. Ippolito, Grant Regione Autonoma della Sardegna)

2009-12: Member of the Research Project “The island of failed projects. The Great Powers and Sardinia between the 19th and 20th centuries” (P.I. Prof. L. Saiu, Grant Autonomous Region of Sardinia)

2008-11: Member of Local Unit PRIN 2008 “In the shadow of the bomb” (P.I. Prof. L. Nuti)

2006-2023: Research at the Diplomatic Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome; National Archives, Kew Gardens, London; Vatican Secret Archives; Central State Archives, Rome; National Archives and Record Administration, College Park (MD), USA; State Archives, Cagliari; Historical Archives of the University of Cagliari; European Union Historical Archives, Fiesole

Conferences and seminars

Speaker at the “International Conference on Mediterranean Studies” Atiner, Athens April 2023

Speaker at the Conference Ass. Mazziniani/Ass. Asproni “The Peace Treaty and the Italian Colonies”, Cagliari 23 January 2024

Speaker at the “World Day of Migrants and Refugees”. September 2023

Speaker at the Einaudi Foundation International Conference “The Stockholm Conference at 50”, 2022

Speaker at the National Conference of the Italian Society of International History 2022

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, Villaurbana 2022

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, University of Cagliari 2022

Renato Prunas and Italian diplomacy, Amici del libro, Cagliari 2022

75 years after Auschwitz. A tale of memory, Commemorations for the 'Day of Memory', Istituto "Benedetto Croce", Oristano, January 25, 2020

Speaker, GramsciLab Cuba Conference, December 11, 2019

Speaker, GramsciLab Conference, December 7, 2019

Speaker, Sardinian Genealogical Society Conference, November 15, 2019

Speaker, Conference, 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, ACIT, Cagliari, November 7, 2019

Speaker, Sardinia Regional Command, Carabinieri Legion, Celebrations, November 4: Armed Forces Day, October 29, 2019

The Transformations of Society since the 90s. Europe, Italy, Third Sector Managers Training Day (FQTS 2020), Tramatza, May 25, 2019

Speaker Conference Capitalism or Democracy. The 1970s and the Short Happy Life of Keynesianism, November 16, 2018, Seminar Series Summer School of Advanced Political Training on International Gramscian Studies for Political and Social Sciences

The Mediterranean towards greater (dis)integration. Pills on the geopolitical framework, seminar “Sardinia, hub of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation?”, Associations Sardegna 2050 and Open Med, Cagliari, September 22, 2018

Speaker Conference Italy and Mediterranean migrations between European multilateralism and the national path. A diplomatic reading, Sissco research seminar “Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992)”, Cagliari, 24-25 May 2018

Seminar speaker The North Korean question and international balances, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 11 December 2017

Seminar speaker ‘At the roots of a possible Renaissance. Sardinia and international aid between war and post-war period’, Seminar series ‘70 years of special autonomy of Sardinia’, organized by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, November 2017

Speech Italy and the signing of the Peace Treaty of 1947, celebrations for the Day of Remembrance, Prefecture of Cagliari, February 10, 2017

Speaker Laboratory on International Politics and migrations, XXX Peace March organized by the Diocesan Caritas of Cagliari, December 29, 2016

Speaker 3rd seminar “Sardinia in the First World War from the mutilated victory to the myth of the Sassari Brigade”, Celebrations for the Centenary of the Great War, Nuoro, October 23, 2014

Speaker I Seminar “Sardinia in the First World War from the mutilated victory to the myth of the Sassari Brigade”, Celebrations for the Centenary of the Great War, “Duca degli Abruzzi” Institute, Elmas October 16, 2014

Speaker at the seminar “Identity, Equality and Gender Discrimination”, Cagliari, April 10, 2014

Chairman, PRIN Conference “Nuclear Proliferation in the Extra-European Dimension”, Cagliari, November 9, 2012

Italian Foreign Policy Face to British Elections of 1951, International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), June 22, 2011

Speaker at the Inaugural Conference of the Italian Navy Petty Officers School, La Maddalena, September 17, 2010

Speaker at the Conference ‘Garibaldi. A Thousand Times, A Thousand Lives, Cagliari, January 22, 2010

NATO Workshop ‘Looking Towards NATO’s Future’ - NATO 60th Anniversary Conference, NATO Joint Force Command Naples, October 13-14, 2009

Speaker at the Conference ‘Kosovo yesterday and today: historical and geo-political profiles’, CIFIGE Joint Force Command, Rome, November 27, 2009

Speaker at the Conference, ‘The Ethiopian enterprise between diplomatic tradition and destabilization’, Collinas, September 19, 2009

Speaker at the Conference, ‘The “defense” of Rome in 1943’, Cagliari, Società degli Operai, March 7, 2009

Speaker Conference The problem of ethnic minorities in contemporary international relations Aegee Sardinia, April 17, 2008

Italy and the United States in the early 1950s: the story of Ambassador C.B.Luce (1953-1956), Tortolì Settimana della Cultura, Tortolì, March 27, 2008:

Ideals and political choices. The European Integration Process after World War II, Soroptimist Cagliari, January 30, 2008

From the Community of Six to the Union of Twenty-Seven: the process of enlargement of Europe, 1957-2007, Aegee Sardegna, June 13, 2007

East-West relations and the question of Western security after World War II, University of Cagliari, June 1, 2007

Reason of State and loyalty to the organization: the Ethiopian enterprise and Italian officials at the League of Nations, International Conference Italian East Africa: after 70 years, University of Cagliari, November 2006

The Embassy of C.B. Luce and Italy in the 1950s, Conference ‘In the sign of women’s empowerment: in Italy and in the world’, Cagliari, November 7-9, 2006

The Mediterranean at the beginning of the 19th century. Diplomatic aspects of the Barbary raids in Carloforte, Carloforte, November 25, 2006

Garibaldi and Italian diplomacy at the time of Unification Conference Speaker, LXIII Congress of the History of the Risorgimento – ‘Garibaldi: Culture and Ideals’, Cagliari, October 14, 2006

Citizens of Italy, citizens of France: the Tunisian affair: Conference Speaker ‘Citizenship. A look into the world’, Cagliari, September 21-22, 2006

Event Organization

JMC Diplomatic Series, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Cagliari, academic year 2022-2023

Conference Australia in the global chessboard. A Quantification Analysis of National Power and Migration Policies, held by Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza (Sydney University)

Course in Vatican Geopolitics Prof. Schiavazzi, January 2018

Responsible for the Degree Course in International Relations, entitled Cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean Area - Financing Tools and Experiences Compared, September 21, 2018, EXMA’ Conference Room, Cagliari

Seminar by David C. Unger (U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Johns Hopkins Bologna): The Election of Donald Trump: What does It mean for Europe, the world, and the United States?. (in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Italy), November 22, 2016

International Conference Europe, Italy Sardinia and Africa in movement. Cooperation agreements and migration in the Mediterranean: actors, contents, perspectives, 11-12 June 2016

ISPI Globe Initiative Milan, 21 May 2015

The question of the options of the South Tyroleans in the Italian-German relations, seminar prof. Federico Scarano (University of Naples), 18 December 2013, Cagliari

Barack or Mitt? Economy, Society and Foreign Policy in U.S. 2012 Presidential Election – Meeting with Alan Schecther (Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College, MA), October 2, 2012

Security in the Middle East and Obama's Foreign Policy (Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, American Progress), Cagliari, May 18, 2010

The Role of Media in Today's US Public Diplomacy, (seminar with US Senator Larry Pressler), Cagliari, March 16, 2009

A Long Road to the White House – Candidates, Issues, Media in the Presidential Campaign, University of Cagliari, May 23, 2008 (Eric Jones, John’s Hopkins University, in collaboration with Associazione Amerigo)

U.S. Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations (web-chat with prof. J.E.Miller), January 18, 2008

Other professional activities:

Referee Edwar Elgar: Atiner Athens, World Journal of Social Science, USAbroad-Journal of American History and Politics, BP International

Referee REPRISE Cineca 2017

Evaluator of Scientific Projects PICA

Evaluator VQR 2014

Member of the Center for Studies, Training, Communication, Planning on the European Union (CESUE), University S. Anna, Pisa

Member of the Regional Committee for the Centenary of World War I, 2014

Scientific Coordinator FQTS (Training of Third Sector Executives), 2018-2020

Member of the Interdepartmental Center for the Study of Documents CISFDEL, University of Cagliari

Teaching Staff Italian Diplomatic Academy, 2017-2019

Associate Editor “World Journal of Social Science” (Area 14 scientific journal)

Member of the Editorial Board, “International Journal of Political Science and Diplomacy”

Member of the Working Group International Cooperation Forum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation, 2007