Blog Posts - Fabrizio Coticchia

"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.

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.

Parlamenti e controllo dell'uso della forza

7/4/2021

Sono contento di aver partecipato al volume curato dal Prof. Panebianco "Democrazia e sicurezza. Società occidentali e violenza collettiva". Ho scritto un capitolo su "Parlamenti e controllo dell'uso della forza", esaminando lo stato dell'arte della (crescente) letteratura sul tema e focalizzandomi sui casi (molto diversi) di Italia e Germania.

Un centro di gravità permanente? La difesa italiana e il Mediterraneo allargato

4/21/2021

Ho scritto una breve analisi sul tema del "Mediterraneo Allargato" e l'evoluzione della politica di difesa italiana. Il pezzo è stato pubblicato da Formiche. Qui il link.

"Managing incoherence. Social democratic parties and transnational issues in Europe"

12/17/2020

My latest paper (with Marco Di Giulio and Enrico Calossi) focuses on political parties and transnational issues. The paper (here the link, gated) "Managing incoherence. Social democratic parties and transnational issues in Europe" has been published on European Politics and Society. Here below the abstract:
Do political parties keep their promises? The coherence between parties’ ideology and policy output have always attracted scholarly interest. Moreover, the importance of political parties’ accountability has dramatically increased also because of the rise of populist parties. This paper aims at contributing to the current debate by investigating different phases: the electoral manifestoes, the framing on issues in parliament, the votes, and the ways through which the manifestoes for the following elections change. What are the patterns parties can adopt to address a possible dissonance between electoral platforms, votes, and frames? Are there recurrent patterns of party behaviour between manifestoes, rhetoric, and policy outputs? To answer these research questions, the manuscript builds on a cross-country and cross-time (2007–2017) empirical analysis of three West European social democratic parties and their attitudes towards transnational issues, such as migration, terrorism, military operations and the financial crisis. The paper, which is based on content analysis of debates and manifestoes, identifies several patterns parties can follow for managing these crises. This paves the way for further variable-testing research.