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 decree in Italy in the nineteen eighties, D'Amato became a scholar of the Russian academician Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt at Moscow’s Historical-Archive Institute in the nineteen Nineties. 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 USSR, the EU enlargement to the East, and euro-integration.

Selected bibliography