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The Energy Politics of Enrico Mattei in the Context of the Mediterranean Area

By: Pinella Di Gregorio

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In the Cold War, Enrico Mattei’s National Hydrocarbons Board (ENI) defied the “Seven Sisters” oil powers. ENI presented itself as a 'Special Agent' of decolonization, offering a new model to developing nations and seeing Sicily as a central bridge across the Mediterranean.

This book deals with Italy’s relationship with the Mediterranean Sea into which the peninsula extends. In an international context divided into opposing blocs, Enrico Mattei…
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This book deals with Italy’s relationship with the Mediterranean Sea into which the peninsula extends. In an international context divided into opposing blocs, Enrico Mattei engaged the National Hydrocarbons Board (ENI), founded in 1953, on two fronts. On the international front, defying the power of the “Seven Sisters”, he presented ENI as a ‘Third-Worldist model’ for countries on the path towards decolonization; domestically, focused on the development of the Italian economy. In this regard, Mattei firmly believed that Sicily could play a central role connecting the two shores of the Mediterranean region. As a matter of fact, the constant and heartfelt reference to the Resistance as a founding moment of the Italian Republic made ENI capable of presenting itself as a “Special Agent” of decolonization to support the efforts of countries that were trying to conjugate new national identities and economic development within the difficult geopolitical context of the Cold War.

Pinella (Giuseppa) Di Gregorio is Full Professor of Contemporary History and the Director of the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Catania, Italy. Here, she teaches History of the Mediterranean Region.
Pinella Di Gregorio is also a member of the Doctoral College in Political Sciences at the University of Catania and a member of the Mediterranean Studies Research Group at the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn, University of Alabama (US).
She completed her PhD in History and Civilization at the European University Institute of Fiesole (Firenze), Italy. She was Resident Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Visiting Scholar at the School of History, Classics and Archeology of Birbeck University of London, UK; and Visiting Scholar at the University College of London.
Among others she published Frontiere. L’impero britannico e la costruzione del Medio Oriente contemporaneo (2012); Oro nero d’Oriente. Arabi, petrolio e imperi tra le due guerre mondiali (2006); and Sicily: Geopolitical Oil Rig in the Mediterranean Sea. in C. Karagoz, G. Summerfield, (ed by), Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention (2015).

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4705-7
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4705-2
  • Date of Publication: 2025-05-08

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4706-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4706-9
  • Date of Publication: 2025-05-08
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBLW3, HBT
  • THEMA: NH(3MPQ), NHT
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