Giuseppe D'Amato (born 1965) is an Italian historian, specializing in Russia and the former USSR, and a columnist of international politics.
After getting a degree in Italy in the 1980s, D'Amato became a scholar of the Russian academician Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt (in Russian Шмидт, Сигурд Оттович) at Moscow's Historical-Archive Institute (Russian State University for the Humanities) in the 1990s.
D'Amato wrote a book about Italian travellers to Russia in the 15th -16th centuries and studied Russian-Italian relationships.
Some of his articles have been published in languages other than Italian.
[1][2][3] He wrote three books respectively on the subjects of the break-up of USSR, the EU enlargement to the East, and euro-integration.