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| Author | : Christine Shaw |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047409744 |
A wide-ranging collection of essays, examining the effects of the central phase of the Italian Wars on the politics, culture and society of Italy, on military organization and the conduct of war, and on the image and reputation of Italy and the Italians.
| Author | : Emidio Diodato |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2017-05-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319550624 |
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 | : Anna Leiber |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 19 |
| Release | : 2014-10-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3656821275 |
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 | : Ademola O. Sadek |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2014-09-29 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1422292703 |
Italy is a tourist destination for thousands of people every year. It was also a founding member of the EU in 1952. Italy has a long history, from the Romans to the Renaissance. Today it faces modern-day issues such as immigration, women's rights, and the economic recession. Discover more about this exciting, modern nation!
| Author | : Chris Wickham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Brings together 11 of the author's fundamental essays on the social history of the late Roman and early medieval period in Italy and, more generally, in Europe. The first section, The Roman Empire and After, focuses on the state and the economy of late Antiquity and what happened to them in the political crisis of the western empire in the fifth century. Part 2, Theorizing early medieval Europe, concentrates on the economy of the early medieval west, as seen through comparative surveys of pastoralism, the use of woodland and the relationships between peasants and lords. The last part, Italian society from the Carolingians to the communes contains analyses of medieval Italy that are of comparative interest.
| Author | : William Kay Wallace |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2015-06-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781330352861 |
Excerpt from Greater Italy I would attempt to trace in this volume the rise of the Kingdom of Italy among nations, with more particular emphasis on the part played by the people of Italy in the affairs of the world during the past three decades. The share which Italy has had in shaping the history of Europe during this period is a great one. Careful analysis would lead one to conclude that the policy which Italy has pursued has been one of the chief final determinants in world affairs. Italy's open acknowledgment of her partnership in the Triple Alliance brought about the re-grouping of the European Powers which soon crystallised into the two groups of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, facing each other across the chessboard of international affairs. It was only when Germany, with overweening self-confidence, trumpeted loudly her defiant cry of Weltmacht oder Niedergang, that the people of Italy, perceiving the subservience of the position into which they had fallen, with indomitable courage set about to free themselves from German control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Federiga Bindi |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-02-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0815705093 |
A Brookings Institution Press and Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA) publication Federiga Bindi provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of Italy's role within the European Union (EU) in this inaugural volume of a book series published jointly by the Brookings Institution Press and the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (Italian National School of Public Administration, or SSPA). Italy and the European Union relates in detail the historical, cultural, and sociological factors that have led to Italy's incomplete "Europeanization," or full integration, within the EU. It also brings the reader up-to-date on the steps taken by the country's leaders to improve Italy's standing and become a more effective member in the organization it helped to found. Discussing the author's extensive research, The Economist notes.... "Federiga Bindi identified a number of barriers to an effective European policy in Italy: a high turnover of governments; coalition partners with conflicting aims; the failure of bureaucrats to learn from other member states; and politicians' lack of interest in Europe... recently however, she found that matters had improved. An interdepartmental body for the coordination of EU policies has been created, Parliament operates an effective scrutiny system..., the administration has learnt to learn from others. But the other problems remain, and they are formidable. Her study ends on an exasperated note: 'Italy appears to be stuck in the age of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, in which the victory of one faction over another is what counts, and the fact that this may be damaging to the country matters little.'" —from The Economist, July 31, 2010
| Author | : Miroslav Šedivý |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2018-07-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1786734036 |
Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal Congress System that the period has often been referred to as the 'Age of Metternich'. In this book, Miroslav Šedivý analyses Metternich's policy towards the pre-united Italian states from 1830 to 1848. With an emphasis on geopolitics and international law and drawing attention to the unsettled role of the Italian states within European diplomacy in the period, this book explains why the Italian peninsula never developed into the stable region that Metternich hoped to establish at the heart of the Congress System. Owing to the self-interested policies of some European Powers as well as the larger of the Italian states. Metternich proved unable to bring about 'the transformation of European politics' in Italy. Using a thorough analysis of the role that Italy played in the Congress System and based on extensive research in 18 European archives, this book explains why it was in Italy that the first war broke out after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, an event representing the first brutal blow to the Congress System.
| Author | : Roland Sarti |
| Publisher | : Facts on File |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780816045228 |
Presents guide to significant people, ideas, places, and events in Italy's history, including a brief narrative description and a chronology of major events.
| Author | : Bojan Aleksov |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2020-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9633863368 |
The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.
