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Italy in the International System from Détente to the End of the Cold War

The Underrated Ally

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Editors:
  1. Antonio Varsori

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

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  2. Benedetto Zaccaria

    1. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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  • Analyzes Italy’s international position from the early 1960s until the end of the Cold War
  • Develops our understanding of Italy’s internal dynamics by considering Italy’s place in the Atlantic alliance, the European construction and the North-South dialogue
  • Argues that Italy’s role in the second half of the twentieth century was more important than previously acknowledged
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Antonio Varsori
    Pages 1-12

  5. New Approaches to the International System and the Influence of Parties’ Political Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. The Emergence of Global Environmentalism: A Challenge For Italian Foreign Policy?

      • Sara Lorenzini
      Pages 207-225

    3. Air, Space and Techno-Scientific Innovation in Italian Foreign Policy During the 1970s and 1980s

      • David Burigana
      Pages 227-251

    4. Decay and Catharsis: Perceptions of the United States in Italian Political Cultures Between the 1960s and 1970s

      • Valentine Lomellini, Benedetto Zaccaria
      Pages 253-275

    5. Development Cooperation, 1958–1992: Party Politics and a Foreign Policy Debacle

      • Elena Calandri
      Pages 277-298

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 299-309
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About this book

This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy’s foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South divides. According to received opinion, during the Cold War era Italy was more an object rather than a factor in active foreign policy, limiting itself to paying lip service to the Western alliance and the European integration process, without any pretension to exerting a substantial international influence. Eleven contributions by leading Italian historians reappraise Italy’s international role, addressing three complex and intertwined issues, namely, the country’s political-diplomatic dimension; the economic factors affecting Rome’s international stance; and Italy’s role in new approaches to the international system and the influence of political parties’ cultures in the nation’s foreignpolicy.

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“The book in fact offers a number of genuinely innovative contributions, covering several political, economic, and sociocultural aspects of Italy’s foreign policy history. … the essays of the volume are all explicative, exhaustive, and engaging. … The book has the merit to offer a variety of perspectives and combine different approaches. It fulfills its mission to contribute to Italy’s diplomatic history and will represent an advantageous starting point for scholars who are interested in the history of Italy’s foreign relations.” (Dario Fazzi, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, October, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Antonio Varsori

  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Benedetto Zaccaria

About the editors

Antonio Varsori is Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Padova, Italy. He is also member of the Commission for the Publication of Italian Diplomatic Documents at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His most recent publications are L’Italia e la fine della guerra fredda. La politica estera dei governi Andreotti (1989-1992) (2013) and Storia internazionale. Dal 1919 a oggi (2015).

Benedetto Zaccaria is a Research Assistant at the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is the author of The EEC’s Yugoslav Policy in Cold War Europe, 1968–1980 (2016).

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