Enrico M. Fardella
History of Chinese Foreign Policy
University of Naples L’Orientale
Enrico Maria Fardella is Associate Professor of History and Institutions of Asia at the University of Naples L’Orientale.
He teaches in the Department of Social and Human Sciences of the same institution. He serves as the Director of the ChinaMed.it Project, Associate Director of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is also an Honorary Life Member of Trevelyan College at Durham University and sits on the editorial boards of the European Journal of East Asian Studies and Orizzonte Cina.
Previously, he held the position of Associate Professor at Peking University, where he also served as Director of the Center for Mediterranean Area Studies. Additionally, he was a Fellow of the Science & Technology China Program of the European Commission. His research interests encompass the history of Chinese foreign policy, as well as China’s relations with the European Union, the Middle East, and Italy, from the Cold War to the present.