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Biography
Professor Alanna O’Malley is a historian focusing on the United Nations, decolonization, Congo and the Cold War. Her current research examines the role of the Global South challenging the liberal world order at the United Nations. She leads a research group on United Nations Studies in The Hague.
She completed a PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 2007-2012. In 2009, she was a Visiting Scholar at New York University, in 2017 a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney and from August 2017-February 2018 she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the History Department of George Washington University in Washington D.C.Her first book The Diplomacy of Decolonisation, America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64 was published by Manchester University Press in 2018. She is the co-editor of The Institution of International Order, From the League of Nations to the United Nations published by Routledge in 2018.