Enrico Fardella
Former Global Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Human Sciences of University of Naples 鈥楲鈥橭rientale鈥.
Expert Bio
Enrico Maria Fardella is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Naples 鈥楲鈥橭rientale鈥. 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 浪花直播 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鈥檚 relations with the European Union, the Middle East, and Italy, from the Cold War to the present.
Major Publications
- 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 浪花直播 Center, 2015).
- 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鈥檚 Republic of China during the Cold War (1969-1979)鈥 Jan 13, 2013 - Mar 31, 2013
Insight & Analysis by Enrico Fardella
- Blog post
- Cold War
Crisscrossing Roads to Socialism: China and the Italian Communist Party during the Cold War
- By
- Leonardo Bruni,
- Silvio Pons,
- and Enrico Fardella

- Publication
Sino-European Relations during the Cold War and the Rise of a Multipolar World

- Publication
Negotiating Sino-Italian Normalization, 1968-1970
- Article
- Cold War
Global Fellow Enrico Fardella Publishes Chapter on Sino-Italian Normalizaion

- Article
- Cold War
HAPP Welcomes Scholars Enrico Fardella and Ruud van Dijk
