Nicola Degli Esposti

Nicola Degli Esposti is a researcher in history and international politics. Since 2025 he has held a research grant at the University of Padua funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for the project Restructuring the Middle East: The West and the Politics of Loans and Conditionalities (1977–1994). Since 2024 he has taught international history and politics at the University of Bologna.

He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020, with a dissertation on the Kurdish national movement from the perspectives of historical sociology and political economy, based on fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan. From 2020 to 2021 he was an International Relations Fellow at LSE, teaching courses in international relations theory and the international politics of the Middle East. From 2021 to 2024 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Padua, working on the history of globalisation.