Italy and the Middle East

Luciano Monzali is Full Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', Italy. He is the author of The Italians of Dalmatia: From Italian Unification to World War I (2009). Paolo Soave is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy. He is the author of The American Revolution in the Mediterranean (2004) and has published in the New Historical Review.

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of the interests and agency of a middle-ranking European power such as Italy in the Middle Eastern checkerboard. The product of often painstaking analysis of unique primary sources from a variety of Italian governmental archives, this book goes beyond the frequent focus on superpower involvement in the Middle East to deliver a very informative set of analyses by experts of the field of the interactions between republican Italy and a variety of Middle Eastern actors, both state and non-state. A seminal and very important book.

• PrefaceAntonio Varsori, University of Padova, ItalyIntroduction: The Foreign Policy of a Middle Power at the Geopolitical CrossroadsLuciano Monzali, University of Bari, Italy and Paolo Soave, University of Bologna, ItalyChapter 1: Middle East and the Cold WarJoseph A. Bongiorno, St. John's University, USAChapter 2: The Arab-Israeli Issue in the Italian Foreign PolicyLuca Riccardi, University of Cassino, ItalyChapter 3: The EU, Italy and the Middle East: the Euro-Arab DialogueSilvio Labbate, University of Salento, ItalyChapter 4: Gaddafi and the Troubled Relations With Italy Since 1970Paolo Soave, University of Bologna, ItalyChapter 5: Turkey and ItalyFederico Imperato, University of Bari, ItalyChapter 6: The Iranian Revolution Seen by RomeRosario Milano, University of Bari, ItalyChapter 7: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Italian Foreign PolicyLuciano Monzali, University of Bari, ItalyChapter 8: Italy and the Lebanese Civil WarRoberta La Fortezza, University of Bari, ItalyChapter 9: The Sigonella Crisis: The Middle East and the Atlantic AllianceMatteo Gerlini, University La Sapienza, Rome, ItalyChapter 10: Italy and Algeria: a Resilient ConnectionAzzedine Layachi, St. John's University, USAChapter 11: Italy and PakistanGiuseppe Spagnulo, University of Bari, ItalyChapter 12: Partners in Rivalry: Britain, Eni and the Tehran Oil Agreement of 1971Bruno Pierri, University of Parma, ItalyChapter 13: Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East. The Italian ContributionLorenzo Medici, University of Perugia, ItalyChapter 14: The Middle East Beyond the Cold War. The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1989-1993)Arturo Marzano, University of Pisa, ItalyBiographical Notes of AuthorsIndex