The Italian political system and détente (1963 - 1981)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12548778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto Gualtieri (0000-0002-0424-5254, Sapienza University of Rome, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 428-449 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1354571042000296399 |
| OpenAlex | W2054394959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the impact of détente on the Italian political system, linking together internal and international dynamics in both the political and the economic spheres. Relying on various new archival sources, it analyzes the conflicting effects on Italy of both the relaxing of Cold War tension and bipolarism, and the 'bipolar' strategy to reassert US hegemony: the failure of the reformist design of the center - left of the 1960s; the 'strategy of attention' in 1969 - 71 and its sudden halt; the building of a 'devaluation model' after the end of Bretton Woods, and the consequent shift from Kissinger's neo-centrism to 'national solidarity'. Détente favoured a crisis of the centrist pattern of Italian politics but at the same time the 'bipolar' features of both the US and the Soviet 'strategies of détente' led to a decline in US hegemony, relaunching the DC's centrality and its ability to manage external constraints. Reaganism was to recast US hegemony on a new basis
Centrality · Cold war · Devaluation · Economic history · Economics · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |