Southern Europe

Introduction: Peace Movements in Southern Europe during the 1970s and 1980s

“…15 For Sapelli, Southern Europe was a distinct, specific socio-economic formation, differing from the rest of Continental Europe and from the British Isles due to its late industrialisation, a state which was weak and interventionist at the same time, a low degree of institutionalisation, and the disintegrating consequences of clientelism. 16 Sapelli's view was representative of mainstream research on the European south under the spell of post-war Western master-narratives of modernity and modernisation. 17 The ambivalent position of the 'South' as a laggard, characterised by a syndrome of faults and deficiencies compared to the 'West', including economic backwardness, clientelism, patronage and corruption, to name just a few, had deep roots going back to the formation of the idea of the modern 'West' since the Enlightenment.…”