Italian Military Operations Abroad Just Don't Call it War

by Ignazi, Piero; Giacomello, Giampiero; Coticchia, Fabrizio

• ISBN13: 9780230228917
• ISBN10: 0230228917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers.

Author Biography

Piero Ignazi is Professor of Comparative Politic at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is Chairman of the Research Committee for Political Sociology of IPSA and ISA. He has worked extensively on party systems in Italy and Europe. His most recent publication is Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe (2006, 2nd expanded and updated edition). Giampiero Giacomello is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna. Italy, and Adjunct. Professor of European Studies at the James Madison University EU Policy Studies MA programme, Florence, Italy. His latest publication is Security in the West (2009, edited with C. Nation). Fabrizio Coticchia is Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, ltaly. His research interests are international relations, conflict and post-conflict studies, development and institutional change.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Foreign Policy of a Latecomer	p. 8
The Political Interpretation of Italy's Military Operations Abroad	p. 42
From the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Italy's Military Missions 1990-2001	p. 83
From the Fall of the Twin Towers: Italy's Military Missions 2001-8	p. 127
Treading on Thin Ice: Italy's Debate on Security and Defence	p. 160
Conclusions	p. 182
Afterword: A View from the Ground	p. 187
Appendix	p. 194
Notes	p. 219
References	p. 238
Index	p. 255
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