The Italian armed forces and the new conflicts in Europe

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-17 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2023.2191231

F. Coticchia, Francesco N. Moro

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The Russian invasion of Ukraine radically altered the strategic context in which the European armed forces operate. For Italy, the event signalled a critical moment as it pushed for at least a partial re-orientation of defence priorities established over three decades, entailing a possible shift from the Southern to the Eastern front and from crisis management to conventional operations as the main focus of the armed forces. This article reconstructs how Italy is adapting to these new constraints by providing a detailed analysis of the responses undertaken and, at the same time, placing those responses in the broader context of Italian defence transformation in recent decades. The objective is to trace continuities and discontinuities in Italian defence policy under the Draghi government and also to assess potential directions for change under the new cabinet led by Giorgia Meloni.

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意大利军队和欧洲的新冲突

俄罗斯入侵乌克兰从根本上改变了欧洲武装部队运作的战略环境。对意大利来说，这一事件标志着一个关键时刻，因为它至少在一定程度上推动了30多年来确立的国防优先事项的重新定位，包括可能从南部前线转向东部前线，从危机管理转向常规作战，作为武装部队的主要重点。本文通过对所采取的应对措施的详细分析，重建了意大利如何适应这些新的制约因素，同时，将这些应对措施置于近几十年来意大利国防转型的更广泛背景下。目的是追溯德拉吉政府领导下意大利国防政策的连续性和不连续性，并评估由乔治娅·梅洛尼领导的新内阁下的潜在变化方向。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.