Giuseppe D'Amato

Giuseppe D'Amato is an Italian historian, specializing in Russia and the former USSR, and a columnist of international politics.

Biography

After getting a degree in Italy in the 1980s, D'Amato became a scholar of the Russian academician Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt at Moscow's Historical-Archive Institute in the 1990s. He got a Ph.D. in history.

Writing

D'Amato wrote a book about Italian travellers to Russia in the 15th -16th centuries and studied Russian-Italian relationships. Some of his articles have been published in languages other than Italian. He wrote three books respectively on the subjects of the break-up of the USSR, the EU enlargement to the East, and euro-integration.

Selected bibliography

Сочинения итальянцев о России XV – XVI конца веков, Москва 1995. Book in Russian.

Review Foreign descriptions of Muscovy. An Analytic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources by Marshall Poe in «Slavic Review» Vol. 56, No. 3, Autumn 1997, pp. 566 – 567.Il Diario del Cambiamento. Urss 1990 – Russia 1993. Greco&Greco editori, Milano, 1998. Book in Italian.Viaggio nell'Hansa baltica. L'Unione europea e l'allargamento ad Est. Greco&Greco editori, Milano, 2004. Book in Italian.L'EuroSogno e i nuovi Muri ad Est. L'Unione europea e la dimensione orientale. Greco&Greco editori, Milano, 2008. Book in Italian.The new Europe in the midst of separations, reconciliations, and new unions, in «2015 Scientific Economic Magazine», No.1 issue 1, edizioni Palager, Bergamo, 2009.