Camillo Padulli

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History / Trumbull College

Camillo is a first-year student of History from Cambridge, UK. Before moving to Cambridge he lived in New York and Milan. He has a profound interest in European history, particularly in the continuing effects of revolutionary nationalism on inter-European relations and European relations with United States. He is keen to understand the role of America in guaranteeing European geopolitical autonomy, and how this role will develop during a renewed period of great power competition between the US and China. He has previously worked in the British Parliament, with much of his work focusing on the safeguarding of British nuclear power funding from Chinese influence. He is heavily involved in debating at the Yale Political Union and serves as the Floor Leader the of the Right, having previously been the Lieutenant Whip of the Independent Party. In his spare time, he can be found reading Thucydides and Stoic philosophy, or alternately jamming to Pitbull.

Fields of Interest: 
Nationalism and the European Union; Transatlantic relations; European geostrategic autonomy; Western Europe