“Aspiring and Reluctant Middle-Powers? Italy’s and Germany’s Defense Reforms after the Cold War”1/3/2020
My forthcoming book chapter will be: “Aspiring and Reluctant Middle-Powers? Italy’s and Germany’s Defense Reforms after the Cold War”, F.Coticchia and F.N.Moro, in G.Giacomello and B.Veerbek (eds) Middle Powers in Europe and Asia, Lexington, (2020). Here below you can find a description of the edited volume: This volume presents three claims regarding the role of middle powers in the 21st Century: first, states aspiring to become or remain middle powers choose from three possible role: to be a global middle powers; to be a regional pivot; or to be a niche leader. Second, states seeking such roles need different mixes of hard and soft power sources. Third, more so than great or small powers, middle powers walk a thin line between the domestic and systemic pressures they face. In this volume, these claims are based on (comparative) case studies of Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, and Turkey.
Very pleased to present my current research on military transformation in Italy and Germany at the "Wednesday Brown Bag Seminars" at La Sapienza University in Rome (November 13, 2019).
Glad to present my latest book (“Italian Foreign Policy during Matteo Renzi's Government: A Domestically-Focused Outsider and the World", with J.Davidson, Lexington 2019) at the University of Siena, on Tuesday 22 October 2019. I would like to thank CIRPAC and DISPOC for the kind invitation.
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Author
Fabrizio Coticchia is Professor of Political Science at the University of Genoa. |