Professional Affiliation

Teaching Fellow and co-Chair of the African Research Group in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London

Expert Bio

Flavia Gasbarri holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, where she is currently Teaching Fellow and co-Chair of the KCL Africa Research Group. In April-September 2012, she was Junior Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Her doctoral project was entitled "The United States and the end of the Cold War in Africa, 1988-1994" and her research interests focus on the history of the Cold War in the Third World, US-Africa relations, and post-Cold War US foreign policy. She has also researched and published on US policy in the Rwandan genocide and in the Great Lakes region.

Wilson Center Project

"The United States and the Cold War in Africa 1988-1994."