Ettore Costa

Pubblicazioni

BOOKS

Costa, Ettore. The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement: Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945–1951. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77347-6.

SPECIAL ISSUES 

Andrén, Mats, Costa, Ettore (2020) (Eds), “Transnationalism in 1950s Europe: ideas, debates and politics”, Special issue, History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020)

Costa, Ettore (Forthcoming) (Ed), ‘From Sputnik to Chernobyl: Science and the European Left during the Cold War’, Special Issue, History of European Ideas, Forthcoming

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

Costa, Ettore. ‘Il “Campo Sperimentale” Del Socialismo: La Vittoria Laburista Del 1945 e i Suoi Riflessi Sulla Sinistra Italiana’. Dimensioni e Problemi Della Ricerca Storica, no. 2 (2011): 11-41, DOI: 10.7376/70357.

Costa, Ettore. ‘The Socialist International and Italian Social Democracy (1948-50): Cultural Differences and the “Internationalisation of Domestic Quarrels”: The Socialist International and Italian Social Democracy (1948-50)’. Historical Research 91, no. 251 (February 2018): 160–84, DOI:10.1111/1468-2281.12210

Costa, Ettore. ‘“Like Romans Becoming Italians”: Italy as the Negative Paradigm for British Decline in the Language of the Press and Denis Healey’. Modern Languages Open, no. 1 (2018), DOI: http://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.162

Costa, Ettore. ‘Whoever Launches the Biggest Sputnik Has Solved the Problems of Society? Technology and Futurism for Western European Social Democrats and Communists in the 1950s’. History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020): 95–112, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1703855

Andrén, Mats, and Ettore Costa. ‘Introduction: Transnationalism in the 1950s Europe, Ideas, Debates and Politics’. History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020): 1–12, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1703856

Costa, Ettore. ‘Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of International Cooperation, 1933–1951’. In European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945, edited by Matthew Broad and Suvi Kansikas, 117–39. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45445-6_6  

Costa, Ettore. ‘The Western European Left and the First Moon Landing: The Fall of Scientific Enthusiasm and the Ebb of Socialism’. The International History Review, 44, no. 6 (2022): 1347-1368, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2022.2046129

Costa, Ettore, ‘From East-West Balancing to Militant Anti-Communism: The Socialist International and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947–1949’, Journal of Cold War Studies, 24.2 (Spring 2022), 95–131 https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_01044

Costa, Ettore, ‘The Comintern and the Labour and Socialist International: Struggling over Democracy and Working-Class Unity’, Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, 2022.1 (2022), 223-242, https://doi.org/10.13133/2723-9489/1430

Costa, Ettore, ‘Taking the Measure of Social Democracy: Exploring the Ideology of the Socialist International through Topic Modeling’. Journal of Digital History, 2.1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1515/jdh-2022-0001

Costa, Ettore. ‘The West German and Italian Left in the “Two Cultures” Debate: Trasnationalization and Localization (1964–1969)’. Central European History 57, no. 3 (September 2024): 377–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938924000013.

Costa, Ettore. ‘Prospérité, Socialisme Ou Écologisme ?: Retour Sur Le Débat de l’Internationale Socialiste de 1977 Sur l’énergie et Le Nucléaire’. Parlement[s], Revue d’histoire Politique n° 40, no. 3 (21 November 2024): 159–78. https://doi.org/10.3917/parl2.040.0159.

Costa, Ettore. ‘La Socialdemocrazia Di Ingvar Carlsson: Ambizioni Socialiste e Neoliberalismo in Svezia Tra 1974 e 1994’. Rivista Storica Del Socialismo IX, no. 2 (October 2024): 81–96.

Costa, Ettore. ‘Denis Healey : agnostic or the original Eurosceptic?’ In The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach, edited by Matthew Broad and William King, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025 [Approved for publication, forthcoming]

CHAPTERS and REVIEWS

Costa, Ettore. ‘Labour’s Euroscepticism and the Socialist International (1948-1952)’. In Euroscepticisms, Resistance and Opposition to the European Community/European Union, edited by Daniela Preda and Guido Levi, 363–74. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2019.

Review of Salm, Christian. Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s: European Community Development Aid and Southern Enlargement. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016 in Rivista Storica del Socialismo, 3, n.2, 2018, pp. 205-206

Costa, Ettore. ‘Bad Godesberg: Non Solo Una Città Tedesca, Non Solo Tedesca’. In Forza Di Governo Radicale La Socialdemocrazia e i Sessant’anni Del Programma Di Bad Godesberg, edited by Jacopo Perazzoli, 16–18. Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 2019.

Review of Fulla, Mathieu, and Marc Lazar, eds. European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, in Rivista Storica del Socialismo, 7, n.1, 2022.

Review of Murphy, Colm, Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation’, the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, in Rivista Storica Del Socialismo IX, no. 2 (October 2024): 173-174.

Costa, Ettore. ‘Science for Children and Adults: The Space Race in Italian Communist Party Publications, 1957-64’. In Science Discourses in Cold War European Research Institutions, Cinemas and Media, edited by Mariana Ivanova and Juliane Scholz, 183–203. Berghahn, 2024.

Costa, Ettore. ‘Science and Democracy (and Social Democracy). Scientific Questions for the Party of European Socialists (PES) in the 21st Century’. New Europe College Yearbook 2024–2025, no. 1 (2025).