Italian military operations abroad
Subtitle: just don't call it war
By: Piero Ignazi, Giampiero Giacomello, Fabrizio Coticchia
Contributors: Giacomello, Giampiero, 1959-; Coticchia, Fabrizio
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780230228917
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; National security; Italian Peacekeeping forces; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; Foreign relations; Armed Forces
Description: "Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: The Foreign Policy of a Late Comer; title: The Political Interpretation of the Military Operations Abroad; title: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Italy's Military Operations 1990-2001; title: From the Fall of the Twin Towers: Italy's Military Operations 2001-2008; title: Treading on this Ice: Italy's Debate on Defence and National Security Policy; title: Conclusions; title: Afterword: A View from the Ground; G. Badialetti.