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Article: A half-century of Italian foreign policy.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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At the beginning of 1993 in Guida alia politica estera italiana Sergio Romano highlighted the main difficulties of Italian foreign policy at the end of the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. He stated that the new international scenario created after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the end of the so-called first republic in Italy, are decisive in explaining the poor Italian commitment on the international scene. Romano is adamant when he states that after witnessing the international events from 1989 to 1992, mainly the former Yugoslav crisis and the Gulf war, 'Italian foreign policy - the one the country adopted with different ...