Patterns of strategic culture and the Italian case

Rosa, Paolo

doi:10.1057/s41311-017-0077-1

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“…In our explanation, therefore, we exclude a liberal approach to Italian foreign policy. A liberal approach to Italian foreign policy would privilege the importance of domestic variables such as strategic culture, domestic institutions and personal leadership (Rosa 2018;Coticchia and Davidson 2019). Whilst such variables undoubtedly play a role in Italian foreign policy, we do not think that they shape Italian foreign policy to the extent that it allows us to say much about Italy's stance towards France and Germany.…”

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Italy in the EU after Brexit: carrying through or taking a bet?

Cladi¹,

Locatelli²

2021

Politique Européenne

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This article explores the possible repercussions of Brexit upon Italian foreign policy. Whilst Italy has not modified its foreign policy fundamentally following the result of the 2016 referendum on Brexit, we argue that Brexit has, however, led to a change in the European balance of power. This has exposed Italian foreign policy, which has had to adjust accordingly. Successive Italian governments, from Matteo Renzi's to Giuseppe Conte's first cabinet, have had to rethink, design and implement a new role for Italy among the EU top countries. They had to do so as they faced the common prospect of losing an ally such as the UK, which has often proved instrumental in counterbalancing continental European powers. Nevertheless, we observe that the ruling coalitions differed in their response to Brexit. We argue that a neoclassical realist approach aides in understanding the way in which the Italian response to Brexit has been influenced by two key factors: the need to preserve Italy's status in the European balance of power and the governing coalitions' commitment to delivering their electoral promises. The result is that Italian governments pursued a different approach to Italian foreign policy after Brexit, and the implications are discussed.

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Italy in the EU after Brexit: carrying through or taking a bet?

Cladi¹,

Locatelli²

2021

Politique Européenne

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Explaining Italian foreign policy adjustment after Brexit: a Neoclassical realist account

Cladi

Locatelli

2020

Journal of European Integration

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Drawing on a neoclassical realist approach, this article delves into the impact that Brexit is likely to have on Italian foreign policy. We argue that there are two areas of issue, which are particularly affected by Brexit. Firstly, the Italian relationship with France and Germany.Secondly, Italian defence policy within the European context. Although Italy has not appeared to have significantly changed its foreign policy course after the British referendum, policymakers in Rome have been concerned by the risks that Brexit entails for the country, and have reacted accordingly. We will observe the variation in governmental interest of three ruling coalitions which have alternated in power since 2016 and, through a neoclassical realist approach, we argue that the Italian response to Brexit has been shaped by both the international pressure to preserve its standing in Europe and the need shared by all governments to keep up to their electoral promises.

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Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

Rosa

Benati

Foradori

et al. 2020

Political Research Exchange

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This article carries out a quantitative analysis of the military behaviour of Italy from 1946 to 2010 using neoclassical realism as the theoretical framework. By overcoming the limits of traditional explanations of Italian security and defence policies, neoclassical realism provides new insight into Italy's involvement in militarized interstate disputes by taking into account both systemic and domestic variables. The method used is a combination of dyad analysis introduced by Stuart Bremer in 1992 and the analysis of unit-level variables, which is distinctive of neoclassical realism. An analytical model is developed, and bivariate and multivariate analyses are performed to explain the impact of the variables. By empirically testing a set of hypotheses, the study argues that Italian military behaviour is a function of the country's relative power as well as the levels of elite instability and regime vulnerability, the extraction capacity of the state, and the degree of elite consensus. The study contributes to the existing scientific debate on the determinants of Italian international behaviour and to the literature on neoclassical realism by demonstrating that its main propositions apply to a case of middle power and that these propositions can be tested on a large scale through quantitative approaches.

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Patterns of strategic culture and the Italian case

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Italy in the EU after Brexit: carrying through or taking a bet?

Italy in the EU after Brexit: carrying through or taking a bet?

Explaining Italian foreign policy adjustment after Brexit: a Neoclassical realist account

Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

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