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Rhabdomyomatous mesenchymal hamartoma (RMH) is a rare tumour-like lesion, which occurs in the skin of newborns, principally of the face and neck. RMH has also been reported in unusual sites, including oral cavity, nasal vestibule and vagina. In this case report we describe a rare case of RMH arising as a nodular mass at the anal margin of a male newborn. This is an unusual site for such a rare lesion. The histological examination of the lesion showed the typical features of RMH. Desmin and S100 expression has been determined by immunohistochemical analyses to assess the distribution of the mature skeletal muscle cells and small-sized nerves, which represented the principal components of the nodular mass. Our case emphasizes the possibility that RMH may occur in the perianal region and awareness of this possibility is crucial for pathologists to avoid confusion with other skeletal muscle-containing lesions, especially rhabdomyosarcoma.

Italian foreign politics is facing tough challenges in the near future. For more than 60 years, the Italian foreign policy compass was set on two poles, the European Union and the United States. Sometimes alternatively, much more often conjointly, these two polar stars oriented each and every Italian government’s choice since the end of Second World War. All this has been changing over the last few years. In this context, the article intends to introduce the special issue on Italian foreign policy drawing a stylized map of theoretical approaches that knits together the dispersed theoretical and empirical studies of Italian foreign policy, using a couple of theoretical perspectives as light posts in orienting the articles in this special issue. This introduction is organized in four sections. First, it discusses the approaches that explicitly combine together domestic and international factors in explaining foreign policy. Next, it maps studies on the Italian foreign policy within these frameworks. Then the main characteristics of Italian foreign policy, using these theoretical perspectives, are discussed. The article concludes summarizing how the contributions in this special issue fits into these theoretical frameworks and help shed light on present Italian foreign policy.