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ITALY BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
DIPLOMACY AND NAVAL STRATEGY FROM UNIFICATION TO NATO, 1800S-2000 |
| By: |
Marco Rimanelli |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£56.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820428523 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820428529 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1997 |
| Series: |
Studies in Modern European History 21 |
| Pages: |
1075 |
| Synopsis: |
From her national unification in the years between 1859-1861 to the Cold War, Italy's diplomatic, military and naval strategies focused on becoming a major European and Mediterranean Power alongside established wealthier rivals. Cyclically, foreign and domestic political pressures both propelled and restrained Italy's drive for national security and regional pre-eminence in the Mediterranean, where a fluid, but still constraining, balance of power frustrated her efforts. Faced with insoluble contradictions between regional ambitions and limited resources, Italy creatively exploited both alliance-building in Europe and technological naval innovations to cyclically pursue her regional strategic aims during the Early-Liberal (1848-1896), Late-Liberal (1896-1922), Fascist (1922-1945), and Atlantic eras (1945-2000). But these efforts were doomed by faulty strategic planning and wavering governmental commitment to invest sufficient national resources in the Navy, thus exposing a fatal gap between Italy's prestigious peacetime military facade and her insufficient war-fighting capabilities to attain regional pre-eminence in wartime.This book also examines how the Post-Cold War era and the collapse of the Soviet Union's threat, further lessened Italy's politico-financial pressure to assume a leading role in the Mediterranean. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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