Name: Italy from Crisis to Crisis By Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)
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Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century by Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

Italy from Crisis to Crisis seeks to understand Italy's 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 Italy's 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 Italy's 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.

Italy from Crisis to Crisis Reviews

'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 hasn't stopped. This book brings together a team of authoritative scholars who conduct a wide-ranging, accurate, and intriguing exploration of the peninsula's 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. Isn't 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.

About Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

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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9781138106857

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Title

Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century by Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

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Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

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Routledge Advances in European Politics

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2017-12-01

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256

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Italy from Crisis to Crisis Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

Italy from Crisis to Crisis by Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

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