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"Italy’s Military Operations Abroad (1945–2020): Data, Patterns, and Trends" - International Peacekeeping (2022)

3/19/2022

 

"Italy’s Military Operations Abroad (1945–2020): Data, Patterns, and Trends". My latest paper (with V.Vignoli) has been published on International Peacekeeping. Here the link to the manuscript. 
Here below the abstract:
A significant engagement in military missions is probably the most distinctive feature of post-Cold War Italian foreign policy. In the last three decades, Italy has participated in an extensive number of operations across the world, including those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Several studies have described Italian troop deployments abroad, providing alternative explanations of the Italian military activism. However, despite a recent growing attention on the topic, mainly focusing on specific peacekeeping operations, a comprehensive investigation of the evolution of Italian interventions is still missing. In other words, a detailed picture of main trends, data and patterns – since the end of the Second World War – is lacking. This article aims to fill this gap, using the most detailed and complete data on Italy’s participation in peace and security operations to date. We show that Italian involvement steadily grew between 1990 and 2010 and decreased in the following ten years. Our empirical findings also indicate how Italy’s efforts were increasingly directed in the Mediterranean and North Africa region in recent years. The article contributes to the existing literature on military operations abroad by offering a broad quantitative perspective on the post-Cold War defence policy of a ‘middle power’.
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"La NATO e l'Italia"

12/16/2021

 

Ho contribuito alla ricerca “Verso un nuovo Concetto strategico della NATO. Prospettive e interessi dell’Italia” (a cura di G.Natalizia e L.Termine) per l'Osservatorio di Politica Internazionale (Camera dei Deputati, Senato della Repubblica e Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione, dicembre 2021). Il mio capitolo si intitola "La NATO e l'Italia". Nell’intricata strada verso il nuovo Concetto strategico della NATO mi sono interrogato rispetto alle prospettive, alle esigenze e agli interessi (ancora mal definiti) dell’Italia
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"A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the 'Yellow–Green' government"

10/23/2021

 

My latest paper is online (and in open access): "A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the 'Yellow–Green' government". Here the link to read the paper. The manuscript is part of a Special Issue on Comparative European Politics on populism and foreign policy. Here below the abstract:
In Italy, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League (LN) formed a coalition government after the legislative elections of March 2018. What has been the actual impact of the populist executive in the Italian foreign policy? Relying on the (few) existing analyses that have developed specific hypotheses on the expected international repercussions of populist parties-ruled governments, the paper examines Italy’s foreign policy under the Italian “Yellow–Green” cabinet (June 2018–August 2019). The manuscript advances three hypotheses. First, the foreign policy of the Conte’s government has been featured by a personalistic and a centralized decision-making process. Second, the Yellow-Green executive has adopted a vocal confrontational stance on the world stage, especially within multilateral frameworks, to “take back control” over national sovereignty. Third, such sovereignist foreign policy was largely symbolic because of “strategic” populist attitudes toward public opinion and due to domestic and international constraints. The manuscript—which is based on secondary and primary sources, such as interviews with former ministers, MPs, and diplomats—aims at offering a new perspective on populist parties and foreign policy, alimenting the rising debate on foreign policy change.

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"La Politica di Difesa del Governo Draghi"

10/11/2021

 

Qui una mia breve analisi per Affari Internazionali relativa a "La Politica di Difesa del Governo Draghi". Nel testo una valutazione del grado di cambiamento relativa a tre ambiti: spese militari, missioni e rapporto con UE e NATO. Infine, alcuni nodi irrisolti per la Difesa italiana.

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Italian Foreign Policy: Still the Days Seem the Same?

8/30/2021

 

Glad to be part of this amazing volume: "Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991", edited by Jeroen K. Joly and Tim Haesebrouck. My chapter (co-authored with Valerio Vignoli and titled "Italian Foreign Policy: Still the Days Seem the Same?") assesses Italian FP evolution since the end of the Cold War, investigating drivers (and inhibitors) of change in defense policy, aid, bilateral and multilateral relations. 

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    Fabrizio Coticchia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Genoa.
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