Christian Blasberg is researcher and lecturer for contemporary history. He is an expert on the political history of European liberalism as well as on the history of the extreme right, in particular in France, Germany and Italy. At the SoG he is the academic coordinator of the Master in European Studies (MES) and the Master in International Public Affairs (MIPA).
Having studied Contemporary History and Political Sciences at Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Montpellier (France) and Cottbus (Germany), he has been collaborator of the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) in 1997-99, specializing on conflict solution research in the Mediterranean Area and the Balkans.
He got his Ph.D. in Contemporary History and Political Sciences at the University of Heidelberg in 2004. Since then he has been lecturer for European 19th and 20th century history and culture at Upter University in Rome, Tardini Institute in Rome and University of Heidelberg as well as collaborator at Telma University, Rome. A research collaborator for the Luigi Einaudi Foundation since 2004 and participating in a variety of research projects on Italian post-WWII liberalism, in 2008 he has been appointed scientific advisor for the Luigi Einaudi exhibition at the Quirinals Palace, Rome.
A lecturer for political history at LUISS since 2008, he has been called twice as visiting professor at Université de Montréal since 2010 . His current resaerch is focused on the French interwar extreme-right movements and the decline of Italian liberalism at the beginning of the 20th century. He has published in scientific reviews such as the “Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung”, “Ventunesimo Secolo” and “Scena Illustrata” and has written for the “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung”. His recent publications are:
Monographs:
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Blasberg, Christian (2008), Die Liberale Linke und das Schicksal der Dritten Kraft im italienischen Zentrismus, 1947-1951. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main.
Articles:
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Blasberg, Christian (2011): Neither Fascism nor Republican Loyalism? Some considerations on the impact of the Croix de Feu/P.S.F. on the French Third Republic. In: Scena Illustrata, July 2011.
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Blasberg, Christian (2009), I liberali indipendenti e l’opposizione laico-democratica negli anni del centrismo. In: Grassi-Orsini, Fabio, Nicolosi, Gerardo (eds.), I liberali italiani dall’antifascismo alla Repubblica. Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, pp. 285-308.
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Blasberg, Christian (2009), Das Erbe Luigi Einaudis. Italiens Suche in der Vergnagenheti nach Ikonen fur die Gegenwart. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung.
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Blasberg, Christian (2009), 2008: l’anno della RAF – senza terrorismo. In: Scena Illustrata, January ’09.
- Blasberg, Christian (2009), A peace made of war. How the conflicts between 1918 and 1922 shaped the Order of Versailles – and today’s Europe. In: Scena Illustrata. June 2009.
- Blasberg, Christian (2008), La crisi del PLI. I liberali tra CLN e qualunquismo. In: 1945-1946, Le origini della Repubblica. A cura di Giancarlo Monina. Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, pp. 169-201.
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Blasberg, Christian (2008), Liberali per il centrosinistra: Radicali e Democrazia Liberale. In: I liberali nella Repubblica: l’alternativa sconfitta. Ventunesimo Secolo, n.15, pp. 57-80.
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Blasberg, Christian (2008), Schleyer – un precedente del caso Moro? In: Scena Illustrata, May ’08.
Blasberg, Christian (2004), Italienische Liberale im Umbruch – die Orientierungskrise des PLI zwischen Resistenza und Zentrismus, 1943-54. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung, pp. 193-220.
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Blasberg, Christian (forthcoming 2012), Sozialer Liberalismus als Instrument der macht? Die Aera Giolitti in Italien 1901-14. In: 150 Jahre Deutsche Fortschrittspartei. Boehler-Verlag, Berlin.
