The accommodationist state: Strategic culture and Italy’s military behaviour

Rosa, Paolo

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“…Where it does use force, this is within peacekeeping or peace enforcement missions, under the cover of a multilateral organization's political umbrella. 3 Other analyses stress the impact of the strategic culture on Italy's international behaviour (Pirani 2008;Rosa 2014Rosa , 2016. The main goal for this branch of research is to explain elements of continuityrooted in persistent cultural traditionsin Italy's international behaviour, which appears fundamentally unaltered over time despite structural changes in the international system.…”

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Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

Rosa

Benati

Foradori

et al. 2020

Political Research Exchange

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This article carries out a quantitative analysis of the military behaviour of Italy from 1946 to 2010 using neoclassical realism as the theoretical framework. By overcoming the limits of traditional explanations of Italian security and defence policies, neoclassical realism provides new insight into Italy's involvement in militarized interstate disputes by taking into account both systemic and domestic variables. The method used is a combination of dyad analysis introduced by Stuart Bremer in 1992 and the analysis of unit-level variables, which is distinctive of neoclassical realism. An analytical model is developed, and bivariate and multivariate analyses are performed to explain the impact of the variables. By empirically testing a set of hypotheses, the study argues that Italian military behaviour is a function of the country's relative power as well as the levels of elite instability and regime vulnerability, the extraction capacity of the state, and the degree of elite consensus. The study contributes to the existing scientific debate on the determinants of Italian international behaviour and to the literature on neoclassical realism by demonstrating that its main propositions apply to a case of middle power and that these propositions can be tested on a large scale through quantitative approaches.

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Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

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“…14 In line with Rosa: "the concept of strategic culture is here understood to be a set of institutionalized beliefs within a society, transmitted through socialization mechanisms, regarding the roles of war, international relations and the use of force in foreign policy" (2014, 89). 15 For further details on the operationalization of Italian "humanitarian" and "accommodationist" strategic culture, see Ignazi et al (2012) and Rosa (2014). 16 See Coticchia and Moro (2015).…”

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“…In line with Gray (1991), strategic culture is a set of ‘attitudes, beliefs and procedures that a community learns, teaches and practices’. The recent literature (Ignazi et al ., 2012; Rosa, 2014) helps operationalize Italian strategic culture, 4 while stressing the crucial role played by frames such as peace, humanitarianism, and – above all – a multidimensional (and non-military) view of post-Cold War security. As evidenced above, Italian defence is no longer limited to the protection of frontiers but aims to guarantee a broader area of stability through the armed forces.…”

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Stick to the plan? Culture, interests, multidimensional threats, and Italian defence policy

Ceccorulli

Coticchia

2017

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The international context seems to be increasingly exposed to multidimensional and transnational challenges, ranging from irregular migration and piracy to the violation of basic human rights. Rather than excluding a potential role for the military, many European states rely on it to face a complex security scenario. What are the reasons behind this activism? Taking Italy as a case study, this article works out two main arguments (ideational factors and interests relating to the so-called military–industrial complex) and tries to intercept their weight in the national debate leading to the decision to intervene militarily (or not) in Sri Lanka (2004–05), Haiti (2010), and in the Central Mediterranean (2015–). Ultimately, this effort contributes to understanding the role of the military instrument in Italy, a state particularly exposed to the new challenges ahead, and offers tools for research to be potentially applied in other countries that make similar use of armed forces to deal with non-conventional security threats.

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“…As suggested by Davidson, alternation between centre-left and centre-right coalitions produced continuity rather than change in the foreign policy of Italy's Second Republic (Davidson, 2009). Historical, cultural, situational and, in the realist perspective, systemic factors were used to explain foreign policy preferences and the strategic choices of the Italian political elite (Missiroli, 2007;Ignazi et al, 2012;Rosa, 2014).…”

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The alleged consensus: Italian elites and publics on foreign policy

Olmastroni

2017

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The article compares the way Italian (governmental and political) elites and (organized and general) publics perceive the international system and conceive of the role of Italy in it by using an ad hoc survey conducted specifically for this study. In order to establish whether a horizontal (left-right) and vertical (top-down) consensus exists on foreign policy, special attention has been paid to divergence and convergence patterns in terms of threat perception, feelings towards the (American and European) allies, support for the main institutional mechanisms of coordination and cooperation, and willingness to use military power to defend the constituted order and the national interest, while controlling for the position and level of action of each actor within the foreign policy-making process as well as her or his ideological orientation. While tracing elites’ and publics’ attitudes towards a wide range of foreign policy and security issues, the article reveals the effect of ideological and situational factors on the strategic preferences of national policy-makers and public opinion. In doing this, it contributes to define both the substance and boundaries of the alleged consensus, based on shared norms and historical legacies, supposedly overcoming socio-economic and political cleavages in matters of foreign policy

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The accommodationist state: Strategic culture and Italy’s military behaviour

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010: a combined dyad/nation analysis

Stick to the plan? Culture, interests, multidimensional threats, and Italian defence policy

The alleged consensus: Italian elites and publics on foreign policy

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