Duccio BASOSI

Duccio Basosi, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae

Last update: 2026

Associate Professor of History of International Relations at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, where he is also coordinator of the Master's Degree in Comparative International Relations. Born in Florence in 1974, he graduated and obtained his PhD from the University of Florence. Before joining Ca' Foscari, he taught contract courses at the University of Florence and the Institute of Fine and Liberal Arts at Palazzo Rucellai in Florence. He has been a visiting scholar at Georgia State University in Atlanta (USA), Astrakhan State University (Russian Federation), and the University of São Paulo (Brazil), and a lecturer at the Ca' Foscari Harvard Summer School. His research interests focus on the history of international political economy between the 1960s and 1990s. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Journal of International History and the Editorial Committee of the History of International Relations series published by Mondadori Università. Outside academia, he is still a highly respected midfielder.

Contact

• Office: Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Dorsoduro 3199 - 30123 - Venice, Italy.
• Tel.: (+39) 041.2349429
• Web: http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5592555
• Email: duccio.basosi@unive.it
• ORCID: 0000-0002-3190-3072

Position and main responsibilities (current)

• Associate Professor of History of International Relations, Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies (DSLCC), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Coordinator of the Teaching Board of the Master's Degree Program in Comparative International Relations, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Deputy Director of the Observatory of Politics and International Relations (OPRI), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Member of the Doctoral Board in Global History of Empires, University of Turin
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Journal of International History
• Member of the Editorial Committee of the History of International Relations Series (Mondadori Università)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of USAbroad. Journal of American History and Politics

Education (date of degree)

• 15.112004: PhD in History of International Relations, University of Florence (supervisor: Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo)
• 11.10.2000: Degree in Political Science, specializing in international politics, Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri,” University of Florence (supervisor: Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo). Grade: 110 cum laude

Positions and main responsibilities (past)

• Coordinator of the Teaching Board of the Master's Degree Program in Comparative International Relations, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2018-2021)
• Departmental delegate for interdepartmental agreements, DSLCC, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2021-23)
• Director of the Center for Comparative International Studies in Venice, DSLCC, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2017-21)
• Member of the teaching board of the Interuniversity Doctorate in Historical, Geographical, and Anthropological Studies, University of Padua, Venice, and Verona (2016-22)
• Fixed-term researcher in History of International Relations (Law 230/05, Law 240/10 type A, Law 240/10 type B), Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2009-18)
• Research fellow in History of International Relations, Department of State Studies, University of Florence (2006-09)

Coordination and participation in research projects

• 2017-2020: Local unit coordinator, PRIN 2015 “The Making of the Washington Consensus: Debts, Assets, and Power 1979-1991,” DSLCC, Ca' Foscari University (national coordinator: Dr. Massimiliano Trentin, University of Bologna)
• 2017-2020: Member of the project “The nature of money and its social perception in times of crisis” at the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (coordinator: Dr. Francesca Coin)
• 2012-2016: National coordinator, FIRB 2010 “The engines of growth: For a Global History of the Conflict between Renewable, Fossil, and Fissile Energies (1972-1992)”, DSLCC, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2009-2012: Member of the PRIN 2008 project “The exploitation of nuclear energy: technological innovations and the global Cold War, 1945-92”, local unit of the University of Florence (local coordinator: Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo; national coordinator: Prof. Leopoldo Nuti, Roma Tre University)

Grants, awards, and scholarships

• 2024: Departmental Research Award, DSLCC, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2016: MIUR PRIN 2015 “The making of the Washington Consensus,” local unit coordination
• 2011: MIUR FIRB 2010, “For a global history of the conflict between renewable, fossil, and fissile energies, 1972-92,” Principal investigator
• 2007: SISSCO First Work Award for the monograph “Il governo del dollaro” (The Government of the Dollar)
• 2005: Gerald Ford Presidential Library grant
• 2001: Laura Valerio Finardi Award

Participation in scientific committees of international conferences

• Rethinking Enmity: China-US Relations and Global Peace, Ca' Foscari, March 17-18, 2025
• The New International Economic Order. Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later, Ca' Foscari, May 10-11, 2024
• The Making of the Washington Consensus: International Credits, Debts and Power 1979-1991, University of Florence, July 2021
• The Superpowers and the International Debt Crisis, 1979-1991, Ca' Foscari University Venice, June 2021
• OPEC and the Global Energy Order: From its Origins to the Present Time, New York University Abu Dhabi, April 18-20, 2017
• Countershock/Counterrevolution. Energy and Politics in the 1980s, Ca’ Foscari, November 5-7, 2015
• The Long Twentieth Century Twenty Years Later, Ca' Foscari, November 20, 2014
• Labor Politics in the Oil Industry: New Historical Perspectives, 1950s-1980s, University of Padua, October 24, 2014
• De-scribing the Crisis. Narratives of Europe's Present, Ca' Foscari, January 30-31, 2014
• The Legacy of the US Occupation of Japan after Sixty Years (1952-2012), Ca' Foscari, May 5-7, 2012

Supervision of doctoral and post-doctoral research

• 2023-2026 Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship, TAMIZDAT project (Dr. Ilaria Sicari)
• 2023-2025 Marie Sklodowska Curie Cofund Fellowship, TaiwanDTA project (Dr. Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado)
• 2020-2022 Research grant, PRIN project “The making of the Washington Consensus” (Dr. Benedetto Zaccaria)
• 2021-2022 Research grant, “The formation of European cultural identity in the context of the Cold War” (Dr. Ilaria Sicari)
• 2015-2018 Doctoral thesis “US Sinology” (Dr. Alessio Stilo)
• 2014-2017 Doctoral thesis “US Presidential Rhetoric and Terrorism” (Dr. Marianna Bettini)
• 2014-2015 Research grant, FIRB Project “The Engines of Growth” (Dr. Roberto Peruzzi)
• 2013-2014 Research grant, FIRB Project “The Engines of Growth” (Dr. Claudia Castiglioni)

Conferences and presentations at conferences (selection)

• “Petrodollars and US Power in the 1970s: Reassessing the State of the Debate,” SHAFR Annual Conference, June 26, 2025
• “The ‘oil wars’: logical assumptions and limitations of an overused category,” Ca' Foscari, May 30, 2025
• “Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski and the paradoxes of ‘Soviet totalitarianism, 1977-81’,” International History Seminar, March 20, 2024
• “The 1973 oil crisis between myth and reality,” Sapienza University of Rome, October 27, 2023
• Energy transitions in the Anthropocene, Villa Vigoni (Como), February 24-25, 2023
• "The construction of the US ‘Cold War’ as a fight against ‘totalitarianism’ (1981-2022), SISCALT Annual Conference, November 10-12, 2022
• “The historiography of energy in Italy,” Villa Vigoni (Como), February 28, 2022
• “The US and the International Financial Institutions, 1981-87,” University of Florence, July 12-13, 2021
• Energy transitions and international cooperation, University of Potsdam, June 10-11, 2021 (Chair)
• “The United States and Europe from 1945 to today: a periodization,” IUAV Venice, March 25-26, 2019
• “Pro-renewable energy advocacy and post-petroleum worlds through shocks and countershocks, 1970s-1990s,” New York University, October 31-November 1, 2018
• "One, none and one hundred thousand. Thinking the energy transition in the 1970s and 1980s,“ Museum of Science and Technology, Milan, November 28-30, 2017
• ”Nixon and the end of Bretton Woods,“ University of Florence, November 27, 2017
• ”Fidel Castro between history and myth,“ University of Padua, May 30, 2017
• ” Recent trends in Cold War historiography, University of São Paulo, May 12, 2017
• The political economy of ‘petrodollar recycling’ in the 1970s, University of São Paulo, May 14, 2017
• OPEC and the Global Energy Order: From its Origins to the Present Time, New York University Abu Dhabi, April 18-20, 2017 (chair and discussant)
• “Petrodollar recycling and financial capitalism”, European University Institute, February 28, 2017
• The Obama presidency: an assessment of his eight years in office, CISPEA round table, University of Bologna, December 15, 2016 (discussant)
• “Oil, dollars and Power. Petrodollars revisited,“ Université Paris-Sorbonne, November 4-5, 2016
• Contrasting visions of the atomic age, 5th SISI national conference, Forlì, June 4, 2016 (discussant)
• ”The United States, the shocks of the 1970s, and the transformations of the international system," University of Pavia, May 17, 2016
• “When Oil Prices Fall,” New York University Abu Dhabi, April 17, 2016
• Countershock/Counterrevolution. Energy and politics in the 1980s, University of Venice, November 5-7, 2015 (chair and conclusions)
• “Foreign debts in Latin America's lost decade,” Université de Tours, October 16, 2015
• “The debt crisis of the 1980s revisited,” IV National SISI Conference, Padua, June 5-6, 2015
• “The Production of the ‘Latin American Debt Crisis’ of the 1980s,” Colegio de Mexico, March 2, 2015
• The Rise of the Gulf, SESAMO Conference, Venice, January 16, 2015 (discussant)
• The Cold War's Legacy in the 21st Century, University of Bologna, December 5, 2014 (discussant)
• “The World ‘Debt Crisis’ of the 1980s. Between Economics and International Relations,” Astrakhan State University, September 25, 2014
• Energies, Consumption and the Environmental Question after the Energy Crisis of the 1970s, University of Padua, June 12, 2014 (discussant)
• European Model? Origins, developments, contradictions, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, May 9-10, 2014 (discussant)
• De-scribing the crisis. Narratives of Europe Present, University of Venice, January 30-31, 2014 (chair)
• “A quiet shock? The 1973 oil crisis and the rise of global finance,” University of Macerata, December 17, 2013
• “Ecuador and OPEC: a fluctuating relationship,” University of Venice, September 30, 2013
• “US power and the ‘crises’ of 1979,” University of Salerno, September 10, 2013
• Mapping the external relations of the EC: origins, evolutions, and challenges, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, May 16, 2013 (discussant)
• And the winner is... The 2012 election results, CISPEA round table, Bologna, November 8, 2012
• “From Reconstruction to Uneasy Partnership: Japan-US Economic Relations,” University of Venice, May 5-7, 2012
• “US Decline in the 1970s: Rhetoric or Reality?”, Georgia State University, November 30, 2011
• “The Europeans. The idea of Europe in US foreign policy in the 1960s”, Freie Universitaet Berlin, September 12-24, 2011
• “ The international economic dimension of Transatlantic relations in the 1980s, European University Institute, May 14-15, 2010
• The End of the Cold War in Latin America, London School of Economics, September 25-26, 2009
• The Transatlantic Relationship and the Changing International Monetary System, University of Padua, May 28-30, 2009
• “Cuba and Latin America at the end of the Cold War,” University of Florence, May 15-16, 2009
• “Cuba and Latin America from the foreign debt crisis to the período especial,” L'Orientale University of Naples, April 1-2, 2009
• “Oil, Dollars, and Power: The Transformation of the International Monetary System in the 1970s,” University of Bologna, February 27-28, 2009
• “From Hierarchy to Hierarchy: The Transatlantic Relationship and the Global Economic Transition of the Long 1970s,” University of Tampere, May 12-14, 2008
• “Cuba in the Shadow of the Washington Consensus,” University of Florence, November 15, 2007
• “Transatlantic Strains during the Early 1970s: An International Economic Perspective,” Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, September 20-21, 2007
• “US Economic Policy in the 1970s,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, July 2, 2007
• (with G. Bernardini) “From the Cold War to Globalization: Eurocommunism, Social-democracy, and Neoliberalism, 1974-1980,” Artimino, April 27-29, 2006
• “Helsinki and Rambouillet: Economics and Security at Stake, 1972-75,” Center for Security Studies, Zurich, September 8-10, 2005

Membership in scientific associations

• SISI – Italian Society of International History
• SHAFR -- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Peer reviews

• Cambridge Review of International Affairs
• Journal of Energy History / Révue d'histoire de l'énergie
• Contexto Internacional
• Storia e Politica. Annali della Fondazione Ugo La Malfa
• Ricerche di storia politica
• Politique Européenne
• Journal of Transatlantic studies
• History of Economic Thought and Policy
• The International History Review
• Cahiers d’économie politique
• The Historian
• Interdisciplinary Political Studies

Teaching assignments 2009-2023 (summary)

• History of International Relations, Master's Degree in Comparative International Relations (RIC), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• History of US Foreign Relations, Master's Degree RIC, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• US Intellectual History, Master's Degree in European, American, and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures (LLEAP), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• History of International Relations, Bachelor's Degree in Languages, Civilizations, and Linguistic Sciences (LCSL), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Contemporary History, Bachelor's Degree in LCSL, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• International Oil Politics from the 1970s to the Present, Ca' Foscari Harvard Summer School
• Modern North American History, Bachelor's Degree in Modern and Contemporary Languages and Civilizations, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• The European Union, Institute of Fine and Liberal Arts at Palazzo Rucellai, Florence
• Globalization and Its Consequences, Lorenzo de' Medici Institute, Florence
• The US and the EU, Lorenzo de' Medici Institute, Florence

Visiting scholarships

• May 2017: Erasmus+ at Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Universidade de Saõ Paulo, Brazil
• September 2014: Visiting scholar at Department of Foreign Languages, Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation
• November 2011: Visiting scholar at Department of History, Georgia State University, USA
• September 2011: Erasmus summer school at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Coordination of international mobility programs at Ca' Foscari

• Erasmus+ with NTNU in Trondheim
• Erasmus+ with Heidelberg University
• Erasmus+ with Loyola University in Cordoba
• Italian Erasmus with Roma Tre University

Participation in doctoral final examination committees

• Doctorate in Political Science, University of Pisa, 2025
• Doctorate in Global History, University of Naples "Federico II," 2025
• Doctorate in History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2016
• Doctorate in History of International Relations, University of Florence, 2016
• Doctorate in History of International Relations, University of Florence, 2014

Referee for doctoral theses

• Doctorate in International Studies, University of Naples "L'Orientale," 2026
• PhD in Political Science, Roma Tre University, 2025
• PhD in History, University of Pisa, 2019
• PhD in Modern and Contemporary History, University of Florence, 2011

Participation in competition and evaluation committees

• 2024: Competition for an RTD B position (SPS/06), University of Florence
• 2022: Competition for an RTD B position (SPS/06), University of Teramo
• 2019: Committee for the award of a research grant on "The making of the Washington Consensus" (SPS/06), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2018: Committee for the award of a research grant on "The making of the Washington Consensus" (SPS/06), University of Bologna
• 2016: Commission for the award of area research grants (SPS/06 and SPS/14), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2014: Commission for the award of research grants on "The oil paradigm and 'dissonant' cases" (SPS/06), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2014: Commission for the award of a research grant on "Iran in the 1980s" (SPS/06), Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2012: Commission for the award of a research grant on "The Asian Giant" (SPS/14), Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Organization of public engagement initiatives (selection)

• 2025 OPRI program, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2024 OPRI program, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2023 OPRI program, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2014 "Talkin' 'Bout Capitalim" lecture series, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Publications

• Full list at: https://www.unive.it/data/persone/5592555/pubblicazionitutte

Language skills

• Italian: native speaker
• English: excellent (TOEFL: 287/300)
• French: good
• Spanish: passive knowledge
• Russian: passive knowledge
• Portuguese: passive knowledge