Giulia Bentivoglio, Ph.D. is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Sciences, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua. She is author of several articles and essays on British and Italian foreign policy in the 20th century. Among her publications, La relazione necessaria. La Gran Bretagna del Governo Heath e gli Stati Uniti (2011).

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