Scriptorium Italiae - #1/2025
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Primary Sources
Meloni, Giorgia. ‘President Meloni’s Speech at Rome MED Dialogues 2024’. Italian Government Official Website, 11 December 2024. https://www.governo.it/en/articolo/president-meloni-s-speech-rome-med-dialogues-2024/27243.
Tajani, Antonio. ‘The Efforts of the G7 for Peace in the Middle East and Gaza’. Al-Ahram Online, 25 November 2024. https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/535867/Opinion/The-Efforts-of-the-G-for-Peace-in-the-Middle-East-.aspx.
Secondary Sources
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Alcaro, Riccardo, and Nathalie Tocci. ‘The Janus Face of Italy’s Far Right’. Survival 66, no. 5 (2024): 7–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2024.2403208.
Andretta, Massimiliano. ‘The Politicization Effect of the Environment Issue in Labour Claim-Making: The Case of Italy’. Italian Political Science 19, no. 1 (December 2024): 47–69. https://doi.org/10.69101/IPS.2024.19.1.3.
Annunziata, Filomena, and Nicolas Drago. ‘The climate and security nexus in Italian foreign policy’. Policy Briefing. Paris: ECCO - Heinrich Böll Stiftung, November 2024. https://fr.boell.org/de/2024/12/04/climate-and-security-nexus-italian-foreign-policy.
Castelli, Emanuele, and Simone Papale. ‘Two Decades of SGRI: Italy and the Evolution of IR Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century’. Italian Political Science 19, no. 1 (December 2024): 70–78. https://doi.org/10.69101/IPS.2024.19.1.4.
Colella, Alberto. ‘Los 160 Años de Relaciones Diplomáticas Entre Italia y Costa Rica’. Rivista Costarricense de Politica Exterior 40 (December 2024): 115–19. https://ambsanjose.esteri.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Revista-40-2024-ridotto.pdf
Cozzi Fucile, Claudio, Rossella Borri, and Pierangelo Isernia. ‘Gli italiani e la cooperazione allo sviluppo’. Documenti IAI. Rome: Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), December 2024. https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/gli-italiani-e-la-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo.
Cruschina, Silvio, and Chiara Gianollo, eds. An Investigation of Hate Speech in Italian. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-27.
De Ninno, Fabio, and Federica Cavo, eds. Il Mediterraneo Allargato e l’Italia. Dalla Guerra Fredda al Mondo Post-Bipolare. Centro Interuniversitario Di Studi e Ricerche Storico-Militari 32. Roma: Viella, 2024. doi:10.52056/9791254697689.
de Perini, Pietro ‘Genuine Commitment or Search for Prestige? Italy’s Ambiguous Foreign Policy Discourse on Human Rights’. The International Journal of Human Rights 0, no. 0 (December 2024): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2436508.
Insisa, Aurelio. ‘India e Paesi ASEAN Nei Nuovi Allineamenti Geopolitici Nell’Indo-Pacifico: Le Opzioni per l’Italia’. Position Paper. Progetto Comunità Italiana Di Politica Estera. Rome: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, 2024. https://t.co/xgXhySKsa3.
Marconi, Federica, ed. Navigating New Geostrategic Challenges. EU-US Cooperation and Italy’s Role. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura - IAI, 2024. https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/navigating-new-geostrategic-challenges.
Muldoon-Smith, Kevin, Mark Sandford, Greg Stride, and Andrew Walker. ‘Local Government in Italy’. In Embedded Autonomy: Financing a Resilient Local Government Effectively, edited by Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Mark Sandford, Greg Stride, and Andrew Walker, 91–118. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9030-2_6.
Muti, Karolina, and Michele Nones. ‘European Space Governance and Its Implications for Italy’. Documenti IAI. Rome: Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), December 2024. https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/european-space-governance-and-its-implications-italy.
Natalizia, Gabriele. ‘From Stoltenberg to Rutte: Italy’s Hopes and Concerns with NATO’s New Leadership’. New Atlanticist - Atlantic Council, 30 October 2024. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/italys-hopes-and-concerns-with-natos-new-leadership/.
Natalizia, Gabriele, and Matteo Mazziotti di Celso. ‘Beyond NATO’s 2 Percent Threshold: How Can Italy Meet the Challenge?’ New Atlanticist - Atlantic Council, 18 December 2024. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/beyond-natos-2-percent-threshold-how-can-italy-meet-the-challenge/.
Perissich, Riccardo. ‘The Faults of Italian Europeanism’. Policy Brief. Rome: Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy, November 2024. https://leap.luiss.it/publication-research/publications/r-perissich-le-faglie-delleuropeismo-italiano/.
Perron, Nicolas-François. ‘L’Italie et la guerre en Ukraine : continuité stratégique ou impact des tensions populistes ?’ Le Rubicon, 30 October 2024. https://lerubicon.org/litalie-et-la-guerre-en-ukraine-continuite-strategique-ou-impact-des-tensions-populistes/.
Peterle, Giada. ‘The “Tangential” Geographies of Ring Roads: Mobile Stories from the Margins of Contemporary Italian Cities’. In Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives, edited by Adrien Frenay, Giulio Iacoli, and Lucia Quaquarelli, 67–89. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73792-3_5.
Zavershinskaia, Polina, and Francesco Spera. ‘A Change of Paradigm? How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Influenced Italian Memory Laws’. Contemporary Italian Politics 0, no. 0 (December 2024): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2024.2439175.