Italy's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Bertjan... - 9780739148686

Italy's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First CenturyThe New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power\nAuthor(s): Bertjan Verbeek, Giampiero Giacomello\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739148686, 978-0739148686\nSynopsis\nItalys Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power, edited by Giampiero Giacomello and Bertjan Verbeek, shows how changes in Italys international and domestic environment since the early 1990s have affected Italys foreign policy and raised its aspiration to become, and be treated as, a middle power. The contributors theoretically engage with both rationalist and constructivist accounts of middle power behavior. They reveal that the end of the Cold War, the advent of globalization, and the increase in institutionalized regional cooperation have increased Italys freedom to maneuver (by reducing its dependence on the United States) while simulta.