Italian Foreign Policy During Matteo Renzi S Government

Author : Fabrizio Coticchia,Jason W. Davidson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498551557

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Italian Foreign Policy during Matteo Renzi's Government by Fabrizio Coticchia,Jason W. Davidson Pdf

This book sets out to explain the foreign policy of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (February 2014 to December 2016). It offers a unique analytical framework to make sense of Renzi’s foreign policy: the domestically-focused outsider. It argues that to untangle Renzi’s foreign policy one must first understand that his clear priority was enacting domestic economic and political reforms. Domestic focus means that Renzi made foreign policy decisions with a sensitivity to public opinion and party unity. The book also argues that Renzi’s status as an outsider in Italian politics—having previously served only as the mayor of Florence—provides critical insight into his foreign policy. Renzi was prone to skepticism of the establishment and dramatic, symbolic gestures rather than patient coalition building. The book applies this framework to the five most important foreign policy issues Renzi’s government faced: migration, finance and the EU, Russia, ISIL, and Libya. The book’s analysis of the cases benefits from over twenty elite interviews, including those with senior members of Renzi’s government.

Author : Emidio Diodato,Federico Niglia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319550626

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Italy in International Relations by Emidio Diodato,Federico Niglia Pdf

This book aims to provide an overview of Italian foreign policy from the moment of unification to the establishment of the European Union. Three turning points are crucial in order to clarify Italy’s foreign policy: 1861, the proclamation of the Italian Kingdom; 1943, when Italy surrendered in World War II; 1992, the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. The international position of Italy continues to be an enigma for many observers and this fuels misinterpretations and prejudices. This book argues that Italy is different but not divergent from other European countries. Italian elites have traditionally seen foreign policy as an instrument to secure the state and import models for development. Italy can still contribute to international security and the strengthening of the EU. At the same time, Italy is not a pure adaptive country and has always maintained a critical attitude towards the international system in which it is incorporated.

Author : C.J. Lowe,F. Marzari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134555826

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Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940 by C.J. Lowe,F. Marzari Pdf

This is Volume VIII of eleven in a collection of works on Foreign Policies of the Great Powers. Originally published in 1975, and looks at the polices of Italy from 1870 to 1940 including topics from independence to alliance, Mancini, Robilant, the Crispi period, the Prinetti-Barrere agreement, War during 1914 and 15, Mussolini, Italo-French relations, The Rome-berlin Axis, and the war in 1940.

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 0415273722

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Italian Foreign Policy, 1870-1940 by Akira Iriye Pdf

Author : Bertjan Verbeek,Giampiero Giacomello
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739148709

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Italy's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Bertjan Verbeek,Giampiero Giacomello Pdf

Italy’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power, edited by Giampiero Giacomello and Bertjan Verbeek, fills a gap in the middle powers literature in general because of its focus on Italy. Relying on insights from foreign policy analysis, it offers an innovative theoretical inroad into Italian foreign policy by linking European and international factors with domestic processes of status making. Finally, this volume focuses on actors, issues, and policy instruments in vital areas of Italy’s foreign policy rather than bilateral relations between Italy and other counties or regions.

Author : Emidio Diodato,Federico Niglia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319972626

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Berlusconi ‘The Diplomat’ by Emidio Diodato,Federico Niglia Pdf

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi’s general political stance, Berlusconi’s foreign policy strategies and the impact of those strategies in Italy. Given that Berlusconi is considered a populist leader, the volume considers his foreign policy as an instance of populist foreign policy – an understudied but increasingly relevant topic.

Author : Maurizio Carbone,Simona Piattoni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785335685

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Governing Under Constraint by Maurizio Carbone,Simona Piattoni Pdf

In 2015, Matteo Renzi's government continued to elicit contrasting reactions while dealing with both internal and external constraints. Some say it passed crucial reforms for economic development in fields such as the labor market, the banking system, education, and public administration, in addition to passing a new electoral law. However, others criticize the substance and, even more, the way reforms were passed by constructing variable parliamentary majorities according to the vote at hand, thus avoiding the need to build consensual decision-making relationships with interest groups and further centralizing power in the office of the prime minister. Be that as it may, the government was able to impose its own agenda in domestic affairs. Although the success of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan helped to bolster the image of the country, Italy continued to play a marginal role in key international areas, such as migration, European austerity policies, and the fight against terrorism.

Author : Luigi Villari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012906783

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Italian Foreign Policy Under Mussolini by Luigi Villari Pdf

Author : Jeroen K. Joly,Tim Haesebrouck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030682187

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Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991 by Jeroen K. Joly,Tim Haesebrouck Pdf

In the past three decades, the world has witnessed many rapid and invasive changes, and seems to be changing countries have adapted their foreign policies to these changes. Building on a clear typology of foreign policy change and a consistent theoretical framework, this book offers a comparative analysis of foreign policy change in Europe throughout the post-Cold War period. Along the lines of our analytical framework, country experts discuss how and why the further ever more rapidly in ways that seemed only imaginable in movies. This book investigates how European foreign policies of eleven European countries have changed over the past thirty years. This book hereby advances our understanding of the phenomenon of foreign policy change and identifies the most important drivers and inhibitors of change.

Author : Anna Leiber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656821274

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Italy’s first steps towards a new Europe (1945- 1957) by Anna Leiber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, University of Pavia, language: English, abstract: In 2007, the European Union celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, and thus its official hour of birth after many years of intensive negotiations, which had lasted from 1945 till 1957. From the very beginning on, Italy “had been amongst the keenest supporters of the European integration, both at the popular and the government levels” (Comelli 2011: 2) and had played an important role within all early proceedings. Especially under the political leadership of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy became one of the most influential negotiators and until today, the country is considered a triumphant founding nation of the European Union (Di Nolfo 1980: 145). This widespread pro-European attitude, however, has declined dramatically during the last decades. This negative relationship between Italy and the European Union, however, might be recovering from now on. Matteo Renzi, who got elected the new Italian prime minister in February this year, seems willing to contribute decisive activities to move the Italian population again closer to Europe. As a first important step, Renzi used his government declaration to underline the his-torical significance of the European Union and the urgent necessity for Italy to restart European cooperation (N24.de 2014). Referring to his prominent political precursor, Alcide de Gasperi, the Italian prime minister promised to close the gap between Italy and Europe again. Picking up this recent look back to the founding period of the European Union by the Italian prime minister, this paper focuses on exactly that time and analyses Italy’s contribution during the early European integration. Political scientists and historians often divide this process in three main parts: the after-war period between 1945 and 1949, the beginning of multilateral negotiations from 1949 till 1954, and finally the most important time for the European unification ending with the ratification of the Treaties of Rome in 1957 (Di Nolfo 1980: 148). In the subsequent analysis, I will follow this structure and thereby concentrate on the most decisive events that took place within the different periods - first and foremost the Brussels and Atlantic Pact (1948), the Schuman Declaration (1950), the European Defence Community (1952), the Spaak Committee (1955), and the Treaties of Rome (1957).

Author : Angelos Chryssogelos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000287363

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Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies by Angelos Chryssogelos Pdf

How do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies. The book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party systems as the context in which parties’ ideologies receive precise content and their preferences are formed. The central claim is that foreign policy change arises from within transformed discursive contexts of party competition, when a new language of politics that constitutes anew parties’ self-understanding of what they stand for and compete over emerges in a party system. By comparing cases of contested foreign policy change, the book shows how such transformations in party competition determine whether and when international pressures on a state will translate into decisions to institute foreign policy change and what degree of change will be ultimately implemented. With a novel framework which bridges concepts of international relations and comparative politics, the book will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of international relations theory, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics, and generally to anyone wanting to understand how and when parties, elections and voters contribute to international change.

Author : Michele Testoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000326475

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NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century by Michele Testoni Pdf

This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states. Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international alliances serve not only an external-oriented goal, but also a domestic-oriented aim, which is to control others’ behaviour. The second is to show that tensions amongst NATO allies have become more acute and, therefore, more dangerous. The third is to discuss current transatlantic relations through the adoption of a "second image" perspective; that is, one that emphasizes the multiple vertical linkages that connect NATO to the politics and the policies of each ally. The chapters presented here are built on a dual approach: on the one hand, they look at the place the Alliance occupies in the domestic public debate and the strategic culture of specific member states; on the other, they analyze how each of these countries contributes to NATO’s operations and what interests and visions they share for the Alliance’s future. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, international organizations, foreign policy, and security studies in general.

Author : Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429584251

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Research Methods in Defence Studies by Delphine Deschaux-Dutard Pdf

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues. Recently, defence issues have become of increasing interest to researchers in the social sciences, but they raise specific methodological questions. This volume intends to fill a gap in the literature on defence studies by addressing a number of topics not dealt with sufficiently before. The contributors offer a range of methodological reflections and tools from various social sciences (political science, sociology, geography, history, economics and public law) for researching defence issues. They also address the increasingly important question of data and digitalization. The book introduces the added value of quantitative and qualitative methods, and calls for a cross-fertilization of methods in order to facilitate better research on defence topics and to fully grasp the complexity of defence in the 21st century. This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of defence studies, war studies, military studies, and social science research methods in general.

Author : Chris Hanretty,Stefania Profeti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785331892

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The Year of the Bulldozer by Chris Hanretty,Stefania Profeti Pdf

Without doubt, 2014 was the year of Matteo Renzi. Since winning the leadership or his own party at the end of 2013 and becoming prime minister in February 2014, the young Florentine politician has imparted a decisive change of pace to the endless debates over institutional and policy reforms in Italy. The government has tackled reform of the Senate, the electoral law, and state bureaucracy and has issued measures to address the economic crisis and unemployment. These vital matters have formed the heart of the government's agenda, but that agenda has sometimes seemed to involve "government by press release" and Mated recognition of important facts, making overall evaluation of the Renzi government difficult. Thanks to the contributions of international and Italian academics, this volume offers a detailed analysis of the "Year of the Bulldozer." highlighting the key developments that have affected Italian politics and institutions and Italian society in its broadest sense. Book jacket.

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566425

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African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde Pdf

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.