Italy’s role in the European Defense project

• Autores: Alberto Pagani
• Localización: Cuadernos de estrategia, ISSN 1697-6924, Nº. 228 (EU Common Security and Defense Policy. Quo Vadis? How European capitals understand CSDP), 2024, págs. 127-156
• Idioma: español
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  • The proposed analysis focuses on the perspective of Common European Defence, especially in relation to the new geopolitical challenges, through the particular vision of Italy. The study starts from the indispensable transformation/adaptation of the instrument of National Defence - in Italy and in the other member states - according to the new threats and the new face that war has taken on.

    In this perspective, the articulated security and defence system of the Italian Republic is described; its evolution to pure professionalism and, with it, the change of paradigm in relation to the citizens and the constitutional dictate in relation to the international member organisations.

    Italy is a founding country of the European project as well as of the Atlantic Treaty with a fundamental role in both the southern and eastern flanks. The contribution of the Italian experience in the redefinition of an adequate and prompt Common Defence and Security Policy gains particular importance for the characteristics of mediation and realism recognised in Rome’s Foreign Policy; especially in reference to the PESCO mechanisms of enhanced cooperation, in the regulatory framework of the Lisbon Treaty and in the Council of the Union, the real engine and calibrator of EU integration.