Ettore Costa (PhD)

Assistant Professor

Global History and Governance (GHG)

Scuola Superiore Meridionale

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Assistant Professor/Researcher (RTDA), Scuola Superiore Meridionale

Former position(s)

Postdoc (assegnista), Scuola Normale Superiore
Postdoc Researcher, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg (CERGU)
PhD Contemporary History, La Sapienza – University of Rome

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Costa, Ettore. The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement: Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945–1951. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77347-6.

Articles

Costa, Ettore. ‘Il “Campo Sperimentale” Del Socialismo: La Vittoria Laburista Del 1945 e i Suoi Riflessi Sulla Sinistra Italiana’. Dimensioni e Problemi Della Ricerca Storica, no. 2 (2011): 11-41, DOI: 10.7376/70357.

Costa, Ettore. ‘The Socialist International and Italian Social Democracy (1948-50): Cultural Differences and the “Internationalisation of Domestic Quarrels”: The Socialist International and Italian Social Democracy (1948-50)’. Historical Research 91, no. 251 (February 2018): 160–84, DOI:10.1111/1468-2281.12210

Costa, Ettore. ‘“Like Romans Becoming Italians”: Italy as the Negative Paradigm for British Decline in the Language of the Press and Denis Healey’. Modern Languages Open, no. 1 (2018), DOI: http://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.162

Costa, Ettore. ‘Whoever Launches the Biggest Sputnik Has Solved the Problems of Society? Technology and Futurism for Western European Social Democrats and Communists in the 1950s’. History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020): 95–112, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1703855

Andrén, Mats, and Ettore Costa. ‘Introduction: Transnationalism in the 1950s Europe, Ideas, Debates and Politics’. History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020): 1–12, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1703856

Costa, Ettore. ‘Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of International Cooperation, 1933–1951’. In European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945, edited by Matthew Broad and Suvi Kansikas, 117–39. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45445-6_6

Costa, Ettore. ‘The Western European Left and the First Moon Landing: The Fall of Scientific Enthusiasm and the Ebb of Socialism’. The International History Review, 44, no. 6 (2022): 1347-1368, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2022.2046129

Costa, Ettore, ‘From East-West Balancing to Militant Anti-Communism: The Socialist International and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947–1949’, Journal of Cold War Studies, 24.2 (Spring 2022), 95–131 https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_01044

Costa, Ettore, ‘The Comintern and the Labour and Socialist International: Struggling over Democracy and Working-Class Unity’, Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, 2022.1 (2022), 223-242, https://doi.org/10.13133/2723-9489/1430

Costa, Ettore, ‘Taking the Measure of Social Democracy: Exploring the Ideology of the Socialist International through Topic Modeling’. Journal of Digital History, 2.1 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.1515/jdh-2022-0001

Edited volumes

M. Andrén, E. Costa (2020) (Eds), “Transnationalism in 1950s Europe: ideas, debates and politics”, Special issue, History of European Ideas, 46:1

Areas of research

The relationship of the European Left with science; science in democracy; comparative and transnational history of social democracy and Western Communism; political and intellectual history