Effie Pedaliu

Effie Pedaliu
Alma mater London School of Economics
Scientific career
Fields International history

Effie G. H. Pedaliu is an international historian, author and Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS. She has held posts at LSE, KCL and UWE. She is the author of Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003; pbk. edition 2017), the co-editor (with J.W. Young and M.D. Kandiah) of Britain in Global Affairs, Volume II, From Churchill to Blair, (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013; pbk. edition 2017) and (with J. Fisher and R. Smith) The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017).

Pedaliu co-edits with Professor John W. Young the Palgrave/Macmillan book series, Security Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14489). She is a member of the peer review college of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a co-convenor of the International History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London). She has written numerous articles for academic journals, book chapters, policy reports, feature articles, op-eds and contributes regularly to the Greek broadsheet Kathimerini on Sunday.

The main themes of her work include: the international history of the Cold War; American and British foreign policy; European integration; transatlantic relations; Southern Europe; Human Rights; and Mediterranean security.

Education

MA and PhD in International History, London School of Economics.

Teaching

  • 1990 to 1994: lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science(LSE).
  • 1995 to 1997: Jean Monnet Fellow in European History, Luton University.
  • 1997 to 2002, lecturer in International History, King's College London.
  • 2003 to 2012, senior lecturer in International History, University of the West of England.
  • 2012 to date, visiting fellow, LSE IDEAS.

Consultancy Work

Pedaliu helped in the organisation and declassification of important documents held by the Greek Foreign Ministry which throw new light on the origins of the Cold War. These were compiled and published in the three volume Greece at the Cutting Edge of a New World series: The Cold War, The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan', published in Documents of the Greek Foreign Ministry, 1943–51, Vols. 1–3, Kastaniotis, Athens, March 2002.

Media appearances

Pedaliu has commented on CNN on many occasions on issues pertaining to Greece, Italy, the Balkans, and the EU. She has also given interviews and advice to Canadian News, Sky News, the Nikkei Financial Times and Gazeta Wyborcza (http://wyborcza.pl/1,75399,4857200.html?disableRedirects=true) on the above issues.

Scholarly Publications

Books

2003 Effie G.H.Pedaliu, Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, Houndmills, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780333973806 .

2013 John W.Y oung, Effie G.H.Pedaliu, Michael D.Kandiah, Britain in Global Politics From Churchill to Blair, Volume II, London, Palgrave/Macmillan,https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230360396.

2017 John Fisher, Effie G. H. Pedaliu, and Richard Smith, (eds) The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. London: Palgrave, https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137465801.

Articles

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

  • ‘Fault Lines in Post War Mediterranean and the ‘Birth of Southern Europe’, 1945-1979: An Overview’, in E. Calandri, D. Caviglia and A. Varsori (eds) Détente in Cold War Europe: Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, (London: I. B. Tauris, 2016).
  • ‘'We were always realistic’: The Heath Government, the European Community and the Cold War in the Mediterranean, June 1970 - February 1974 in J. W. Young, E. G. H. Pedaliu and M. D. Kandiah, (eds): British Foreign Policy: From Churchill to Blair, (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, September 2013).
  • ‘ From a Democratic Void to the Lack of International Credibility: the International Community, International Security and the Greek Dictators’, Edited Volume: The Greek Dictatorship and the Restoration of Democracy (Athens: Publications of Hellenic Parliament Foundation, 2016) [in Greek].
  • “Footnotes” as an Expression of Distrust? The U.S. and the NATO “Flanks” in the Last Two Decades of the Cold War’, in Reinhild Kreis, Martin Klimke, and Christian Ostermann, ‘Trust, but Verify’: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1971, (Stanford University Press, November 2016).
  • ‘The US, the Balkans and Detente’, in Svetozar Rajak et al, The Balkans in the Cold War, (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017).
  • ‘The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War’, in John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu and Richard Smith (eds), The Foreign Office, Foreign Policy and Commerce, (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017).


POLICY REPORTS:


OP-EDs:

  • ‘The Nixon Doctrine and Détente’, in Kathimerini on Sunday, 4 February 2018,

http://www.kathimerini.gr/946788/article/epikairothta/kosmos/to-dogma-ni3on-kai-h-die8nhs-yfesh, [in Greek].

  • ‘The dictatorship and the international mobilization for human rights’, in The Dictatorship 50 years After: Special Edition Supplement, Kathimerini on Sunday, 23 April 2017, [in Greek – available in print format only];

Selected conference papers

• 2018 ‘Denmark in the Era of “Euro-missiles” and “Footnotes” ’, LSE IDEAS, 26 March 2018;

• 2017 ‘Denmark and the Greek Junta’, Danish Institute in Athens, Athens, 10 November 2017;

• 2017 ‘The UN and Human Rights Abuses in Greece during the Junta Years’, Conference: The Colonels’ Dictatorship, 1967-74: Domestic and International Dimensions, Institute of International Relations, Panteio University, Athens, 16-18 June 2017.

• 2017 ‘The Greek Dictatorship and International Public Opinion’, Conference: '50 Years After: New Approaches to the Colonels' Dictatorship' organised by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Archive for Contemporary Social History, 20-22 April 2017.

• 2016 ‘Differentiation and Détente: The US and the Balkans’, BIHG Twenty Eighth Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 8-10 September 2016.

• 2016 ‘The rise and Fall of the Greek Junta’, Conference: Coup d'etat judgements in the World and Turkey, organized by Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-28 February 2016.

• 2015 ‘Greece and the Crisis: An Historical Perspective’, Conference: Greece and the EU: Contrasting Views Towards a Reformed Agenda, Conference, CIDOB, Barcelona, Spain, 18 December 2015.

• 2015 Experiencing the Law: Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Human Rights Conference, Round Table Discussion, KCL, UK,10 December 2015.

• 2015 ‘ “Causing us real trouble”: The 1967 Coup in Greece’, SEESOX, St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, 20 May 2015.

• 2015 ‘Human Rights During the Cold War’, University of Athens, Greece, 29 April 2015.

• 2015 Greece and EEC Membership: Was it a Mistake?, Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC, US, 3 February 2015.

• 2014 ‘From a Democratic Void to the Lack of International Credibility: the International Community and the Greek Junta, Conference: The Greek Dictatorship and the Restoration of Democracy, The Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece, 20-22 November 2014.

• 2013 ‘A Strategy for Southern Europe?’, workshop: Greece and the Crisis in Southern Europe, LSE IDEA and the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 12 June 2014.

  • 2013 'America, Britain and the Challenge of Southern Europe in the 1970s', Panel 16, 20 June 2012,SHAFR Annual Conference, 22–24 June 2013, Crystal City, Virginia, US.
  • 2013 LSE IDEAS Conference: A Strategy for Southern Europe? Assessing Challenges, Exploring Opportunities, Opening Remarks, LSE, 14 October 2013.
  • 2013 ‘Greece and Mediterranean Security in the 1980s’, University of Padova Conference, 8–9 November 2013.
  • 2013 LSE IDEAS and NOVA University, Lisbon, Workshop, Round table panellist, 22 November 2013.
  • 2012 ‘Unintended Consequences: Human Rights, European Security and the International Implications of the Greek Dictatorship’, Conference: The International Dimension of Southern European Dictatorships: organised by LSE IDEAS, 19 June 2012.
  • 2012 ‘Fault Lines in Post War Mediterranean, 1945–1979’, Lecture, Hellenic Studies Program, Macmillan Centre, Yale University, 22 October 2012.
  • 2011 “Footnotes” as an Expression of Distrust? The US and the NATO “Flanks” in the Last Two Decades of the Cold War, Conference: “Trust, but Verify”: Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War, co-organised by the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 7–9 November 2011.
  • 2011 The US, the Balkans and the Cold War Mediterranean under the Shadow of Détente, Conference: The Balkans in the Cold War: co-organised by LSE IDEAS and the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (Greece), Athens, 27–29 May 2011.
  • 2010 ‘A Social Democratic Foreign Policy in Action: Britain and Italy, 1945–50’, Conference: North Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, US, 12–14 November 2010.
  • 2010 ‘The US, Détente and the Making of Southern Europe’, Conference: “The Mediterranean and Southern Europe: Crisis and Transformation: From Détente to the Second Cold War”: organised by the University of Padua, Italy, 1–3 July 2010.
  • 2010‘When “More Flags” Meant “No European Flags”: The US, its European Allies and the War in Vietnam, 1964–1974’, Conference: The American Experience in South East Asia, 1946–75: organised by the Office of the Historian, US Department of State, Washington DC, 29–30 September 2010.
  • 2009 ‘Britain and the Greek Dictators: 1967–70’, Centre for Contemporary British History, IHR, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Conference: Britain and the Cold War, 22–25 June 2009.
  • 2009 ‘Lessons from the Past? Britain and Italy’s Guilty Secret’, SOLON (Society, Order, Law, Offences, Notoriety): Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Centre for Contemporary British History, IHR, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Conference: War Crimes: Retrospectives and Prospects, 19–21 March 2009.
  • 2008 ‘From the Truman Doctrine to the Eisenhower Doctrine: Ten Years of American Declaratory Policy and its Effects” ’, The European Institute at Columbia University, New York City, Conference: Cold War in the Mediterranean: Connecting the Fronts, 14–15 November 2008.
  • 2008 ‘ “A Discordant Note”: NATO and the Greek Junta, 1967–74’, Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor Program, University of Tampere, Finland, Conference: Conflict and Community: Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War, 12–14 May 2008.
  • 2007 ‘The Origins of the Treaty of Brussels: Britain and the Defence of Europe in the 1940s’, Rome, American University of Rome and University of Rome III, Italy, Conference: The Brussels Pact and its Legacy: A Reappraisal of European Defence and Transatlantic Relations Sixty Years since its Signing, 6–8 March 2008.
  • 2007 'A Sea of Confusion’: The US, the USSR and the Mediterranean, 1969–1974’ at the ‘US and USSR Relations during the Era of Détente, 1969–1974’ conference which was organised by the US Department of State, Washington DC, 22–23 October 2007.
  • 2007‘Bevin, Sforza and the Council of Europe’, IHR, Senate House University of London, CCBH Summer School Conference: Britain and Europe in the C20th, 11–13 July 2007.
  • 2005 ‘Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Wilson and the Greek Dictators, 1967–1970’, Annual Conference, The Past is Never Far Away, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Maryland, MD, and NARA, College Park, 22–25 June 2005.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Effie G. H. Pedaliu (2004) Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945–48. Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503–529 (JStor.org preview)

Sources

http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/people/bios/Pedaliu_Effie. aspx

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14489

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Effie_Pedaliu


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