The Cold War in the Mediterranean
5-6 October 2001, Cortona, Italy
On 5-6 October 2001, the PHP co-sponsored the international conference on "The Cold War in the Mediterranean" at the Centro S. Agostino in Cortona, Italy. The conference was funded by the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci in Rome, and the Curiel Center for International Studies at Tel Aviv University.
The PHP took part in the preparation of the program and the commissioning of the papers, with an emphasis on the alliance rivalries in the Mediterranean from 1949 to 1969.
Agenda
Part I.
1. Antonio Varsori (University of Florence), Britain's Retreat
Discussant: Roger Louis (University of Texas)
2. Gabriel Gorodetsky (Curiel Center), The Soviet Middle Eastern Policy and the Emergence of the Cold War
Discussant: Silvio Pons (Gramsci Foundation, University of Rome II)
3. Douglas Little (Clark University), The United States, the Mediterranean, and the Origins of the Cold War
Discussant: Giampaolo Valdevit (University of Trieste)
Part II.
4. Bruce Kuniholm (Duke University), Containment Policy and the Struggle over Turkey and Greece
Discussant: Ekavi Athanassopoulou (Athens University)
5. Jordan Baev (Cold War Research Group-Bulgaria, Sofia), The Communist Balkans against NATO in the Eastern Mediterranean Area
Discussant: Aurel Braun (University of Toronto)
6. Laurent Rucker (Institut d'études politiques, Paris), The Great Powers and the Suez Crisis of 1956
Discussant: Timothy Naftali (University of Virginia)
7. Avi Shlaim (St. Antony's Oxford University), Israel between East and West, 1948-1956
Discussant: Ronald Zweig (Tel Aviv University)
Part III.
8. Alessandro Brogi (Yale University), Competing "Missions": France, Italy, and the Rise of American Hegemony in the Mediterranean
Discussant: Federico Romero (University of Florence)
9. Maurice Vaisse (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris), De Gaulle's Policy in the Mediterranean
Discussant: Bruna Bagnato (University of Florence)
10. Leopoldo Nuti (University of Rome III), NATO's Italian Pivot in the 1960s
Discussant: James Miller (Johns Hopkins University)
Part IV.
11. Max Guderzo (University of Urbino), The United States and the Mediterranean in the 1960s
Discussant: Vojtech Mastny (Parallel History Project)
12. Olivier Pottier (Centre d'études d'histoire de la défense, Paris), The American Bases in the Mediterranean
Discussant: Elena Calandri (University of Florence)
13. Vitalij Naumkin (Institut Vostokovedenija, RAN, Moscow), The Soviet Encroachment in the Middle East after 1956
Discussant: Kathryn Weathersby (The Wilson Center, Washington)
14. Boris Morozov (Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University), The Soviet Union and the Six Days War
Discussant: Massimiliano Cricco (University of Florence)
