Amici di VENTUNESIMO SECOLO 

The Amici di Ventunesimo Secolo Society aims at supporting a scientific experience grown within the International Center for Transition Studies (ICETS) at Luiss “Guido Carli” in Rome and the Journal Ventunesimo Secolo.

It involves a group of people from different academic backgrounds, generations and locations, who established ties of cooperation and discussion, as they felt the shared need to expand the scope of their research, which remains their starting point. The ICETS offered to historians, economists and political scientists a meeting point integrated in a wider scientific network of many research institutions in Italy and abroad.

Every year we organise seminar cycles and conventions designed to develop a deeper understanding of the topics explored. The outcomes of these efforts and the research of the ICETS and related study groups are published in Ventunesimo secolo and in the collection Le ragioni degli storici.

The interest of researchers working with ICETS and Ventunesimo Secolo is mainly centred on the reconstruction and analysis of major transition processes in European History from the World Wars to this day, with particular regard for the development, consolidation and interconnections between three important processes: democratization, the construction of new nation states and European integration.

Our research paths can today dispose of new and more ample resources compared to the past. The end of the Cold War and the opening of archives that have been long inaccessible, chiefly those of the former USSR, constitute a historiography challenge. In fact, new sources allow us to revision old conclusions and enable us to go beyond ideological passions, which have deeply shaped the second half of the 20th century and research.