ITALY, THE EAST EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS, AND THE REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY, 1989–92

Despite the fact that two decades have elapsed since the outbreak of the “clean hands” scandal, it is still a difficult task to deal in a balanced way and with a historical perspective with the policies pursued by the Italian cabinets between the early 1980s and the early 1990s, the decade in Italy...

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Published inThe Revolutions of 1989: A Handbook p. 403
Main Author Antonio Varsori
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 18.12.2014
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Summary:Despite the fact that two decades have elapsed since the outbreak of the “clean hands” scandal, it is still a difficult task to deal in a balanced way and with a historical perspective with the policies pursued by the Italian cabinets between the early 1980s and the early 1990s, the decade in Italy that was characterized by the so-called five-party coalition governments (pentapartito) and dominated by political personalities such as Bettino Craxi, Giulio Andreotti, Arnaldo Forlani, and Giovanni Spadolini. Studying Italy’s foreign policy in this period is not an exception to this murky picture. As far as public opinion in
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