“Margaret Thatcher, European Integration and the End of the Cold War”

Ilaria Poggiolini
Associate Professor of International History, University of Pavia, Italy


Part of the Topics in Cold War History Seminar Series

Ilaria Poggiolini is associate professor of international history at the University of Pavia. She is a partner of the Machiavelli Centre for Cold War Studies (CIMA), a member of the teaching staff of the Doctorate Program in History at the University of Pavia, SCR Fellow at the European Study Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and Associate of the Transatlantic Relations Program at LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics (London). Previously, she has been Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Milan, lecturer at the University of Sassari, fellow of the Fulbright Program, NATO, the Woodrow Wilson School, (Princeton University), the British Council and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Her early research activities and publications centered on post WWII international peace making with a focus on the cases of Italy, Japan and Vietnam and on political and diplomatic relations between Italy and the Allies in the 1940s and ‘50s. Over the last ten years and presently her research and publications have contributed to the discussion on the domestic and regional significance of British accession to the EEC, on ‘second Europe’ and Ostpolitik in the 1970s and 1980s, on Thatcher’s European and East/West policy in the 1980s and on the historical and contemporary meaning and implications of Euroscepticism.


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