The great national sport for the Italians for a century and a half has been complaining about their condition. Foreign observers have often encouraged this sport with critical narratives on Italy and Italians. The value of the most qualified comparative analysis is to reject this sport and to look at Italy for what it is, comparing it with the experiences of other countries. After the extraordinary economic and democratic miracle of the post-war era, since the 1970s Italy has taken a long break, but it hasnt stopped. This book brings together a team of authoritative scholars who conduct a wide-ranging, accurate, and intriguing exploration of the peninsulas society, economy, and politics of the last quarter century. What the work shows is a country undergoing profound change: Italy has changed and is still changing. It changes, after all, as the world around it changes, in some respects for the better, in some for the worse. But it changes. Isnt it time to file away the idea of a crisis without a break? - Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Torino, Italy.
Other parts of the world, not least Italy, have often been viewed as not normal or idiosyncratic relative to an Anglo-American norm of socio-political stability and maturity. The model has recently suffered some obvious blows on home turf that thereby draw attention to its longstanding insufficiency. This welcome volume shows how useful and limited a crisis motif can be in understanding recent Italian history without recourse to dubious role models. - John Agnew, UCLA, USA.
With a cross-disciplinary approach and within a comparative perspective, this important volume helps us to understand the effects of the neoliberal crisis as it interacts with long lasting and multifarious crises. - Donatella della Porta, European University Institute, Italy.
Italy from Crisis to Crisis
Italy from Crisis to Crisis seeks to understand Italys approach to crises by studying the country in regional, international, and comparative context. Without assuming that the country is abnormal or unusually crisis-prone, the authors treat Italy as an example from which other countries might learn.
The book integrates the analysis of domestic politics and foreign policy, including Italys approach to military interventions, energy security, economic relations with the European Union (EU), and to the NATO alliance, and covers a number of issues that normally receive little attention in studies of high politics, such as information policy, national identity, immigration, youth unemployment, and family relations. Finally, it puts Italy in a comparative perspective with other European states, naturally but also with Latin America, and even the United States, all countries that have experienced similar crises to Italys and similar often populist responses.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of, and courses on, Italian politics and history, European politics and, more broadly, comparative politics and democracy.
Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science and former Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University, New York, USA.
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Contents
Matthew Evangelista
Sidney Tarrow
Jonathan Hopkin and Julia Lynch
Fabio Armao
Elisabetta Brighi
Fabrizio Coticchia
Elisabetta Bini
Adele Lebano
Teresa M. Cappiali
Giampiero Giacomello
Mabel Berezin
Kenneth M. Roberts
Fabio Armao is Full Professor of Politics and Globalization Processes, and of Criminal Systems, at the University of Turin, Italy. He has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University. He is a member of the Standing Group on Organized Crime, the European Consortium for Political Research, and of the Editorial Board of Global Crime. His research interests focus on wars and geopolitics, on non-state armed actors, and transnational organized crime. Among his most recent publication are Inside War. Understanding the Evolution of Organised Violence in the Global Era
