Gabriele Natalizia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriele Natalizia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriele |
| FAMILY NAME | Natalizia |
| SIGNATURE | NATALIZIA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6372-7758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Italy’s transatlantic bargain
Giorgia Meloni’s government has placed defence policy at the centre of its attempt to revitalize Italy’s relationship with the United States and strengthen Rome’s credibility within NATO. Against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, renewed great-power competition, and Donald Trump’s return to a more transactional approach to alliances, Italy’s defence choices cannot be understood solely as responses to external threats or domestic polit…
The structural roots of Italy’s expanding foreign military deployments
Over the last decade, Italy’s foreign military deployment (FMD) policy has shifted, increasing the country’s commitments, expanding its scope of action, and extending its presence into regions where it was previously absent. What explains this change? We argue that Italy’s renewed military activism has structural roots. Washington’s retrenchment strategy amidst great power competition is driving Rome into closer alignment with the US. Thus, Italy…
Rome’s elephant in the room. US pressures over China and Italian foreign policy change
Published online: 15 October 2025
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion
From the outset of his first presidency, Donald Trump rejected the liberal-democratic teleology anchoring U.S. grand strategy in favour of a security-first approach. Rather than a clean break, this sharpened a dilemma for hegemonic powers: whether to seek stability by making secondary states politically similar or strategically safe. This ‘political regime dilemma’ drives U.S. foreign policy oscillations, particularly in democracy promotion. This…
Italy’s Indo-Pacific tilt (2021–2024)
Published online: 06 August 2025
The return of Prometheus. Dominant powers and the management of careful revisionists
After defeating the 20th-century challengers to the international order, the United States must today calibrate its response to the rise of the PRC, whose foreign policy poses problems both for policy-makers and IR scholars. Wilhelmine and Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and USSR have left a heavy mark on the scholarship on revisionist threats and their management. Like the mythological Titans, these states launched their challenge all the way to ‘O…
Building a more robust framework on revisionism
The comments by Lawson and Legrenzi to our RISP/IPSR article ‘Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan’ contribute to moving the debate on revisionism in international politics a step forward. Their notes on the several issues affecting the International Relations understanding of the phenomenon are on the same page as ours and we appear to share similar doubts and a like-minded curiosit…
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime
Democratization is often said to direct rulers’ attention to social services. Yet how strong is this relationship in countries that had to restructure previously universalistic but financially unsustainable welfare systems, such as the post-communist states following the collapse of the Soviet bloc? And what if political change stops short of full democratization leading to hybrid regimes in which elements of competitive politics and authoritaria…
Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this image tells us little about Beijing's revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an increment…
From Reset to Restart
After a quarter of a century of oscillating relations between Washington and Moscow, Trump’s 2017 National Security Strategy named Russia as one of the main challengers to the US-led order. Power transition theory is used to explain the alternating cooperative and competitive phases during each of the first three post-Cold War US presidencies: first, initial attempts at cooperation are driven by US willingness to integrate its former rival into t…
Black knight as a strategic choice? Causes and modes of Russia's support to the authoritarianism in Southern Caucasus
Despite recurring elections and the transition to multiparty systems, authoritarianism has re-emerged in the Post-Soviet Space. Along with domestic factors, the external dimension should also be considered to fully understand this regional trend. Scholars depict Russia as a typical ‘black knight’ for democracy. While most of the literature deals with the Kremlin's policies in the ‘new’ Eastern Europe, this article pays attention to Russia's actio…
Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries
The article investigates the consequences of post-Cold War regime transitions on human development in the former Soviet bloc. Relying on a mixed-methods research strategy that combines econometric and qualitative comparative analysis, it proceeds through three consecutive steps. First, there is a discussion of how democratic institutions may solicit governments’ attention toward social issues. Second, the relationship between democratisation and …
Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this image tells us little about Beijing's revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an increment…
Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries
The article investigates the consequences of post-Cold War regime transitions on human development in the former Soviet bloc. Relying on a mixed-methods research strategy that combines econometric and qualitative comparative analysis, it proceeds through three consecutive steps. First, there is a discussion of how democratic institutions may solicit governments’ attention toward social issues. Second, the relationship between democratisation and …
Black knight as a strategic choice? Causes and modes of Russia's support to the authoritarianism in Southern Caucasus
Despite recurring elections and the transition to multiparty systems, authoritarianism has re-emerged in the Post-Soviet Space. Along with domestic factors, the external dimension should also be considered to fully understand this regional trend. Scholars depict Russia as a typical ‘black knight’ for democracy. While most of the literature deals with the Kremlin's policies in the ‘new’ Eastern Europe, this article pays attention to Russia's actio…
Italy’s Indo-Pacific tilt (2021–2024)
Published online: 06 August 2025
Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries
The article investigates the consequences of post-Cold War regime transitions on human development in the former Soviet bloc. Relying on a mixed-methods research strategy that combines econometric and qualitative comparative analysis, it proceeds through three consecutive steps. First, there is a discussion of how democratic institutions may solicit governments’ attention toward social issues. Second, the relationship between democratisation and …
Black knight as a strategic choice? Causes and modes of Russia's support to the authoritarianism in Southern Caucasus
Despite recurring elections and the transition to multiparty systems, authoritarianism has re-emerged in the Post-Soviet Space. Along with domestic factors, the external dimension should also be considered to fully understand this regional trend. Scholars depict Russia as a typical ‘black knight’ for democracy. While most of the literature deals with the Kremlin's policies in the ‘new’ Eastern Europe, this article pays attention to Russia's actio…
From Reset to Restart
After a quarter of a century of oscillating relations between Washington and Moscow, Trump’s 2017 National Security Strategy named Russia as one of the main challengers to the US-led order. Power transition theory is used to explain the alternating cooperative and competitive phases during each of the first three post-Cold War US presidencies: first, initial attempts at cooperation are driven by US willingness to integrate its former rival into t…
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime
Democratization is often said to direct rulers’ attention to social services. Yet how strong is this relationship in countries that had to restructure previously universalistic but financially unsustainable welfare systems, such as the post-communist states following the collapse of the Soviet bloc? And what if political change stops short of full democratization leading to hybrid regimes in which elements of competitive politics and authoritaria…
Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this image tells us little about Beijing's revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an increment…
Building a more robust framework on revisionism
The comments by Lawson and Legrenzi to our RISP/IPSR article ‘Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan’ contribute to moving the debate on revisionism in international politics a step forward. Their notes on the several issues affecting the International Relations understanding of the phenomenon are on the same page as ours and we appear to share similar doubts and a like-minded curiosit…
The return of Prometheus. Dominant powers and the management of careful revisionists
After defeating the 20th-century challengers to the international order, the United States must today calibrate its response to the rise of the PRC, whose foreign policy poses problems both for policy-makers and IR scholars. Wilhelmine and Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and USSR have left a heavy mark on the scholarship on revisionist threats and their management. Like the mythological Titans, these states launched their challenge all the way to ‘O…
The structural roots of Italy’s expanding foreign military deployments
Over the last decade, Italy’s foreign military deployment (FMD) policy has shifted, increasing the country’s commitments, expanding its scope of action, and extending its presence into regions where it was previously absent. What explains this change? We argue that Italy’s renewed military activism has structural roots. Washington’s retrenchment strategy amidst great power competition is driving Rome into closer alignment with the US. Thus, Italy…
Rome’s elephant in the room. US pressures over China and Italian foreign policy change
Published online: 15 October 2025
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion
From the outset of his first presidency, Donald Trump rejected the liberal-democratic teleology anchoring U.S. grand strategy in favour of a security-first approach. Rather than a clean break, this sharpened a dilemma for hegemonic powers: whether to seek stability by making secondary states politically similar or strategically safe. This ‘political regime dilemma’ drives U.S. foreign policy oscillations, particularly in democracy promotion. This…
Italy’s Indo-Pacific tilt (2021–2024)
Published online: 06 August 2025
Italy’s transatlantic bargain
Giorgia Meloni’s government has placed defence policy at the centre of its attempt to revitalize Italy’s relationship with the United States and strengthen Rome’s credibility within NATO. Against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, renewed great-power competition, and Donald Trump’s return to a more transactional approach to alliances, Italy’s defence choices cannot be understood solely as responses to external threats or domestic polit…
Political science (9 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Power (physics (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Global Political and Social Dynamics (4 works)