Overview
- Contextualises Italian security and foreign policies within a comparative, international analysis
- Reexamines Italian counter-terrorist policy, particularly in response to Arab Palestinian terrorism
- The Italian edition of this book was awarded the Pozzale-Luigi Russo Prize in 2022
Part of the book series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (SCCCW)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an under-the-counter agreement made between Italy and Palestinian movement during the Cold War. The Moro Doctrine, or ‘Lodo Moro’ as it is known in Italy, aimed to protect the peninsula from Palestinian attacks by allowing terrorists to use Italian territory as a base for weapons and guerrilla fighters.
Responsibility for the ‘Lodo’ was instrumentally placed on Aldo Moro, the five- time Prime Minister of Italy, after his death, and since then his name has become indelibly linked with the shame of having negotiated with Palestinian terrorists.
Thanks to records collected from over twenty archives in Italy, the USA, France, Germany, Britain and Russia, concrete evidence shows that the significance of this agreement needs to be rethought. The author argues that the decision to adopt the Lodo was not solely made by Moro, but also involved key figures of the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties, various magistrates and even the President of the Republic. It illustrates how terrorism was used as an effective tool in international diplomacy to influence foreign and domestic policies.Offering a re-examination of Italian counter-terrorist policy, this book analyses how Italy responded to international terrorism during the Cold War, providing a useful read for those researching Italian and European history, Cold War studies, the history of international relations and diplomacy, and Middle-East history.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Valentine Lomellini is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua in Italy. Here, she teaches Terrorism and Security in International History, and the History of International Relations. She is also the author of La diplomazia del terrore: 1967–1989 (2023).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Italian State and International Terrorism, 1969–1986
Book Subtitle: The Lodo Moro
Authors: Valentine Lomellini
Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43160-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43159-3Published: 09 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43162-3Due: 09 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43160-9Published: 08 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-6807
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 257
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, History, general, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Security Studies, History of the Middle East, European History