Roma Tre is one of the leading new universities in Italy, as ranked in the Times Higher education “Best Young Universities in the World 2018”. Its Department of political science hosts a thriving interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in politics and it is the hub of a large academic network in Cold War studies which over the years had produced a significant number of collective edited volumes and specials issues of scholarly journals. The Department has established effective connections and built joint projects with other international research programs focusing on the same historical period in international relations.
Since 2010, Roma Tre and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars have been co-directing the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP), a global network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of international nuclear history through archival documents, oral history interviews and other sources. Acknowledging that today’s toughest nuclear challenges have deep roots in the past, NPIHP is trying to work towards an integrated international history of nuclear proliferation to promote a robust scholarship and effective policy decisions. Within NPIHP, Roma Tre’s main task -among many others – has been to set up the 8 previous editions of the Nuclear Boot Camp under the direction of NPIHP Main Investigator Dr. Leopoldo Nuti.