How Italy shaped the Mediterranean: exploring its role and influence in Libya

Rossetton, Vittorio (A.A. 2022/2023) How Italy shaped the Mediterranean: exploring its role and influence in Libya. Tesi di Laurea in History of Italian foreign policy, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Antonio Varsori, pp. 139. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Methodology and literature review. An independent Libya: what prospect for the Italian republic? Libya in the cold war, between the USA and the USSR: which Italian legacy? A new paradigm for the Mediterranean: the rebranding of the early 1950s. The Italian-Libyan treaty of 1956. A new Italian dynamism in the Mediterranean in the light of neo-Atlancism. The Italian vision of the Mediterranean as a space for détente. Enrico Mattei and the ENI: an instrument for Italian diplomacy. The discovery of oil and the Italian-Libyan trade relations at the end of the 1960s. The collapse of the monarchy and the free officers movement. The path to the monarchy's demise. The Arab Republic of Libya and the expulsion of Italians. Aldo Moro, the Arab cause, and oil. Aldo Moro: foreign policy cornerstones. Moro's Italy and Gaddafi's Libya. The redefinition of a relationship between Rome and Tripoli. Italy and Europe facing the Mediterranean. The 1980s and 1990s between crises and reconciliations. The tension in the Italian-Libyan relations: the issue of compensation. Reagan and Gaddafi: from the first Sirte crisis to operation El Dorado Canyon. From the second Sirte crisis to the 1991 agreement. The end of the “first Republic” and the Berlusconi-Gaddafi relationship. The 1998 Dini-Mountasser statement. The “grande gesto” and Libya-Italy friendship day. The Benghazi treaty, state visits and the migration issue. From the outbreak of the uprising to the collapse of the Qaddafi regime. The insurgency and the establishment of the NTC. The international appeal and Western intervention. A challenging transition.

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Bibliografia e sitografia: pp. 116-129.

Thesis Type: Master's Degree Thesis
Institution: Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program: Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair: History of Italian foreign policy
Thesis Supervisor: Varsori, Antonio
Thesis Co-Supervisor: Hashas, Mohammed
Academic Year: 2022/2023
Session: Summer
Deposited by: Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2023 14:51
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2023 14:51
URI: https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/37258

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