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Barbara Zanchetta

Dr Barbara Zanchetta

Senior Lecturer

Research interests

  • Conflict
  • History
  • Policy
  • Security

Biography

Dr Barbara Sanchetta joined the Department of War Studies in September 2016. Before coming to London, Barbara held posts in Geneva (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and Geneva Centre for Security Policy and in Helsinki (Finnish Institute of International Affairs).

Author of The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970's (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and the co-author of Transatlantic Relations since 1945 (Routledge, 2012). Currently working on a monograph tentatively titled The United States and the “Arc of Crisis:” American foreign policy, radical Islam and the end of the Cold War, which investigates the role of US policies towards key countries in the Persian Gulf region in determining the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. It also addresses the implications of such policies for the post-Cold War era and for the making of the war on terror decades later.

Research Interests

  • The Cold War
  • American foreign policy
  • Transatlantic relations
  • US-Soviet détente
  • Nuclear arms control
  • Summit diplomacy
  • US policies towards Iran, Afghanistan

Teaching

I am teaching, or have taught in the past, the following courses:

5SSW2064 Contemporary Issues in International History (co-taught)

6SSW0016 US National Security from Truman to Trump

6SSW3021 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Crises

6SSW3023 The 9/11 Era: Anglo-American Foreign Policy since 9/11

7SSWM066 The War on Terror: Anglo-American Foreign and Security Policy since 9/11 (MA module)

Research

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Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

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Latin American Security Research Group

The Latin American Security Research Group (LAS) gathers experts working on international relations, defence and security in Latin America.

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Centre for Grand Strategy

The Centre for Grand Strategy seeks to bring a greater degree of historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy.

News

War Studies student wins award at BISA Model NATO Simulation

Maxim Visnovsky, Alex Call and Andrey Miroshniko, BA students in the Department of War Studies, represented King’s College London at the fifth annual Model...

Maxim NATO Model 2024

Collaborative conference in Paris considers the Strategic and Military Consequences of the End of the Cold War

A hybrid conference held in Paris, organised by the Sir Michael Howard Centre and Sciences Po

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Features

Did Putin invade Ukraine because of NATOs "broken promise"?

BARBARA ZANCHETTA: The motivation for Russia’s brutal aggression on Ukraine has been linked to NATO’s eastward expansion after the end of the Cold War. The...

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Research

SMHC newlogo 780x440
Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

_DSC0102
Latin American Security Research Group

The Latin American Security Research Group (LAS) gathers experts working on international relations, defence and security in Latin America.

EIS_EU_Flags_MAIN
Centre for Grand Strategy

The Centre for Grand Strategy seeks to bring a greater degree of historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy.

News

War Studies student wins award at BISA Model NATO Simulation

Maxim Visnovsky, Alex Call and Andrey Miroshniko, BA students in the Department of War Studies, represented King’s College London at the fifth annual Model...

Maxim NATO Model 2024

Collaborative conference in Paris considers the Strategic and Military Consequences of the End of the Cold War

A hybrid conference held in Paris, organised by the Sir Michael Howard Centre and Sciences Po

coldwarimage

Features

Did Putin invade Ukraine because of NATOs "broken promise"?

BARBARA ZANCHETTA: The motivation for Russia’s brutal aggression on Ukraine has been linked to NATO’s eastward expansion after the end of the Cold War. The...

nato