The two authors review in the book Italian foreign policy since 1870, when the country was No. 6 of Europe's great powers both in population and resources, until 1940 when Mussolini had become a German puppet.
Author(s): C.J. Lowe, F. Marzari
Series: Foreign Policies of the Great Powers
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 490
City: Abingdon
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I
1 The Sixth Wheel
2 From Independence to Alliance
3 Mancini, Robilant and the Mediterranean, 1882–7
The Egyptian Crisis
Via Tripoli to Massowa
Massowa
Robilant's fortress
4 The Crispi Era
Crispi and France
Crispi, Austria and the Ottoman Empire
Crispi and Africa
The road to Adowa
5 Back from Africa
Rudinì and the settlement with France
The Prinetti-Barrère agreement
Giolitti, Tittoni and the Entente Cordiale
The Moroccan Crisis
Italy, Austria and the Balkans
The Bosnian Crisis
6 The Revival of Italian Nationalism
7 Neutrality and War, 1914–15
8 Italy at the Peace Conference
Colonial diversions
Nitti and D'Annunzio
The Treaty of Rapallo
Part II
9 Mussolini and the New Diplomacy
Mussolini's ideas
The Near East
Reparations
The Corfu Incident
Towards Locarno
10 Italo–French Relations after Locarno
11 The Watch on the Brenner
The Four Power Pact
The Tardieu Plan
Negotiations with Austria
12 The Abyssinian War
The rise of the Africanisti
Wal-Wal
Diplomatic preparations
Sanctions
13 The Brenner Abandoned
Belgrade
The Rome–Berlin Axis
An opening to the West?
14 Munich and After
The loss of the initiative
The seizure of Albania
The Pact of Steel
15 War, 1940
Avoiding the catastrophe
A neutral bloc?
Intervention
Documents
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
