He explores the continuous tension between 'stabilization' and 'conflict', between the promise of an innovative and evolutionary representative democracy on the one hand and the constraints of a political system conditioned by structural limits and old contradictions on the other.
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Foreword.- 2. Postwar.- 3. The Economic Miracle.- 4. The Seventies.- 5. Funeral of a Republic.- 6. Toward the End.- 7. The Collapse.- 8. The Impossible Transition.- 9. Between Europe and the Mediterranean.- 10. Conclusion.