Flavia Canestrini
Affiliated researcher
International History, History of the United States, Economic History
Her research focuses on the way economic sanctions were implemented by the Reagan administration as a foreign policy tool between 1981 and 1989. Following a chronological order, she analyzes three different case-studies: the sanctions against Poland and the USSR (1981-87 and 1981-82); the sanctions against Nicaragua (1981-90); and the sanctions against South Africa represented by the boycott and divestment movement and the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986.
2019/2020 Research assistant project SYSRI-30: Systemic Risk in the 1930s, Paris School of Economics, Paris.
2018/2019 Visiting student at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
She holds a master’s degree in History and Civilization from the University of Pisa, Italy.
The title of the master’s dissertation is “The time of the wolf is here” Embargoes in the 1970s, economic policies, and international relations.
Supervision of PhD Thesis
Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, CHSP)
Title : "How economic sanctions changed American foreign policy. A political, economic and cultural history of embargoes between 1989 and 1989"
