Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Italian Intellectuals and International Politics

   • Andrea Guiso, Alessandra Tarquini

   Pages 1-27

3. Liberal Democrat Political Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The “Blood of Others”: Mao’s China in the Discourse of Democratic Intellectuals During the 1950s

      • Luca Polese Remaggi

      Pages 31-50

   3. Telling the Truth: From Socialist Toward Democratic Antifascism and Anti-totalitarianism in the 1950s

      • Marco Bresciani

      Pages 51-68

   4. Il Mulino and the East-West Ideological Confrontation: From Destalinization to 1968

      • Donatello Aramini, Laura Ciglioni

      Pages 69-90

   5. Guido Carli: A Liberal Technician and the Making of Europe

      • Daniele Caviglia

      Pages 91-107

4. Catholic Political Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Italian Catholic Intellectuals and Indigenous Latin Americans: Transnational Networks and Violence at the End of the Cold War

      • Massimo De Giuseppe

      Pages 111-130

   3. Catholic Culture Put to the Test of Détente: The Case of Augusto Del Noce

      • Giovanni Mario Ceci

      Pages 131-151

   4. The International Politics of a Christian Realist: Beniamino Andreatta and Europe

      • Andrea Guiso

      Pages 153-174

5. Socialists and Communists

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Anti-Semitism and the Arab-Israeli Question: The Italian Left in the First Ten Years of the Republic

      • Alessandra Tarquini

      Pages 177-198

   3. An Italian Communist in the Spain of the 1960s: The Worthless Journey of Rossana Rossanda

      • Paola Lo Cascio

      Pages 199-216

   4. The Debate on Post-colonial Africa in the Pages of Mondoperaio: The Reflection of Socialists on Decolonization (1955–1987)

      • Gianluca Scroccu

      Pages 217-233

   5. Solidarity and Italian Labor Movement Culture: CGIL Intellectuals and Revision of the CGIL’s International Relations (1980–1982)

      • Enrico Serventi Longhi

      Pages 235-254

   6. PCI Intellectuals and the Image of “Reagan’s America”

      • Gregorio Sorgonà

      Pages 255-273

6. Back Matter

   Pages 275-283

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Italian intellectuals played an important role in the shaping of international politics during the Cold War. The visions of the world that they promulgated, their influence on public opinion and their ability to shape collective speech, whether in agreement with or in opposition to those in power, have been underestimated and understudied. This volume marks one of the first serious attempts to assess how Italian intellectuals understood and influenced Italy’s place in the post–World War II world. The protagonists represent the three key post-war political cultures: Catholic, Marxist and Liberal Democratic. Together, these essays uncover the role of such intellectuals in institutional networks, their impact on the national and transnational circulation of ideas and the relationships they established with a variety of international associations and movements. 

• Italian culture
• international politics
• the Cold War
• Catholic political culture
• Marxist political culture
• Liberal Democrat political culture
• foreign policy
• cultural diplomacy
• Socialism
• Communism

• Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Alessandra Tarquini, Andrea Guiso

Andrea Guiso is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches the course Contemporary Political, Social and Cultural History.


Alessandra Tarquini is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She has published many essays on Italian intellectuals and is researching a new project about the Italian left and the Jewish question.

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