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Room 310 |
Carlo Maria Santoro Director's Office
The Director's Office is named in memory of Carlo Maria Santoro, a leading diplomat, theorist, journalist and teacher.
Santoro graduated in law from the University of Rome and continued his education at the London School of Economics and at the Faculté de Sciences Politiques, Institut de Droit International in Grenoble.
His diplomatic career included posts in Rome, Geneva and Brussels. He was a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1995 and 1996, he was Undersecretary of State to the Minister of Defense.
Santoro was also a journalist, contributing to several important Italian newspapers and magazines.
He taught international relations at various universities including Venice, Bologna, Turin and Milan, where he was the holder of the Chair of International Relations in the Faculty of Political Science.
He was a visiting professor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Harvard University, Brown University, and the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.
His academic and research interests focused on foreign and security studies, theories of the international system, and American and Italian foreign policy decision-making. Today, his theories still play a key role in the study of international relations.
His most recent research had focused on nationalism, the geo-politics in Eastern and Southern Europe and trends in European reconstruction.
His many publications include: Gli Stati Uniti e l'ordine mondiale (1978), Il dilemma Americano (1979), Lo stile dell'aquila (1984), Studi di Geopolitica (1997) and Occidente, Identità dell'Europa (1998).
Throughout a long illness he continued his prolific study and research activity. He died on April 2, 2002. |
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