The Troubled Presence of the United States in Italy’s Political Culture: An Overview

• Authors: Stefano Luconi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Stefano LuconiUniversity of Naples L’OrientaleItalyThe Troubled Presence of the United States in Italy’s Political Culture: An OverviewThis brief article examines the impact of US values on Italy’s political system since the end of World War II. It argues that, during the Cold War, the allegiance of the sizeable Communist Party to the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the Catholics’ distrust of Americanism, on the other, prevented US principles from shaping the nation’s republican institutions and playing a significant influence on Italian political culture, notwithstanding Washington’s efforts to spread its own philosophy in the country. It also suggests that, after the end of the West-versus-East ideological conflict, the two major party coalitions paid only lip service to US values and referred to them mainly out of expediency while jockeying for position in their struggle for political power.

Keywords

EN

Italy; political culture; US values; American model

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2017-11-30

Contributors

author

Stefano Luconi