Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Human Sciences of University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. 

Expert Bio

Enrico Maria Fardella is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. He serves as the Director of the ChinaMed.it Project, Associate Director of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is also an Honorary Life Member of Trevelyan College at Durham University and sits on the editorial boards of the European Journal of East Asian Studies and Orizzonte Cina. Previously, Dr. Fardella held the position of Associate Professor at Peking University, where he also served as Director of the Center for Mediterranean Area Studies. Additionally, he was a Fellow of the Science & Technology China Program of the European Commission. His research interests encompass the history of Chinese foreign policy, as well as China’s relations with the European Union, the Middle East, and Italy, from the Cold War to the present.

Major Publications

• Enrico Fardella, "A Significant Periphery of the Cold War: Italy-China Bilateral Relations, 1949-1989," Cold War History (2016).
• Enrico Fardella, Christian F. Ostermann, and Charles Kraus, eds., Sino-European Relations during the Cold War and the Rise of a Multipolar World (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2015).
• Enrico Fardella, "Mao Zedong and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis," Cold War History 15, no. 1 (2015): 73-88.
• Enrico Fardella, "The Normalization of Relations between Italy and the People's Republic of China," in Maurizio Marinelli and Giovanni Andornino (eds), Italy’s Encounters with Modern China: Imperial Dreams, Strategic Ambitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
• Enrico Fardella, “The Sino-American Normalization: A Reassessment,” Diplomatic History 33, no. 4 (September 2009) 545-578.
• Enrico Fardella, "The Sino-American Entente of 1978-9 and Its 'Baptism of Fire' in Indochina," in Max Guderzo and Bruna Bagnato (eds), The Globalisation of the Cold War: Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85 (London: Routledge, 2009): 154-165.
• Enrico Fardella, Mao Zedong (Milano: Mondadori, 2004) (Italian) (subsequently translated and published also in Spanish, Dutch and Greek).

Previous Terms

ECNU-WWICS Cold War Studies Initiative Scholar "The Relationship between Europe and People’s Republic of China during the Cold War (1969-1979)” Jan 13, 2013 - Mar 31, 2013