Italy Between Europe and the Mediterranean - Rimanelli, Marco
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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…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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 façade 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.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Marco Rimanelli is Associate Professor in European Affairs and Security at Saint Leo College in Tampa, Florida. From 1991 to 1992, he was Foreign Affairs Officer on U.S.-Soviet nuclear weapons at the United States Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, The State Department, Washington, D.C. From 1987 to 1991, he was Assistant Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Rimanelli received his Ph.D. (1989) in U.S.-European Affairs & Strategy from The Johns Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies. He has received several awards including a NATO Fellowship, a Foster Fellowship and a West Point Fellowship. Dr. Rimanelli has published numerous articles as well as a book entitled, The 1891 New Orleans Lynching and U.S.-Italian Relations (Lang, 1992)