Italy and Titos Yugoslavia in the Age of International Dtente (Enjeux internationaux / International Issues)

World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, during the years of Détente, that rapprochement between Rome and Belgrade became possible and normalization of bilateral relations was attained. Long-lasting territorial disputes, such as the Trieste question, were solved and bilateral relationship greatly improved, so much so that Belgrade became an important asset in Italy's Balkan and Adriatic strategy, while Rome was a sort of bridge between Socialist Yugoslavia and Western Europe. This book is intended to shed light on the process of Italian-Yugoslav normalization and rapprochement, which ultimately brought to the Adriatic Détente. Based on a wide collection of primary sources and documentary materials, it aims to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Adriatic region, a conflicted European space that had been affected by territorial disputes and ethnic strife for decades during the 20th century. -- Provided by publisher Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 9 Introduction......Page 11 List of Archives, Fonds, Collections of Documents and Abbreviations......Page 17 Section I The International Context......Page 23 From London to Osimo. American Attitude to Yugoslav-Italian Settlement of the Trieste Question (Ivan Laković)......Page 25 The Soviet Union and Yugoslav-Italian Détente (1968-1973) (Aleksandar Životić)......Page 39 French Diplomacy and the Road to the Osimo Agreements (Stanislav Sretenović)......Page 51 Great Britain and the Italian-Yugoslav Relations in the 1970s (Gorazd Bajc)......Page 77 Romania and the Rapprochement between Italy and Yugoslavia (Alberto Basciani)......Page 101 Italy and Albania in the Era of Détente. A Tacit Alliance (Luca Micheletta)......Page 117 Section II The Bilateral Dimension......Page 133 A Mistaken History? A Survey of the Short Century of Italian-Yugoslav Relations (Raoul Pupo)......Page 135 Italian Foreign Policy in the Years of Détente. Ideas and Actions of Amintore Fanfani and Aldo Moro (Luca Riccardi)......Page 161 Aldo Moro, Italian Ostpolitik and Relations with Yugoslavia (Luciano Monzali)......Page 201 Détente in the Adriatic. Italian Foreign Policy and the Road to the Osimo Treaty (Massimo Bucarelli)......Page 219 A Difficult Reconciliation on the Adriatic. The Yugoslav Road to the Osimo Agreements of 1975 (Saša Mišić)......Page 251 Section II The Local Reactions......Page 285 The Contribution of Slovenia to the Osimo Treaty (Viljenka Škorjanec)......Page 287 Croatia and Italian-Yugoslav Relations. The Issues of Demarcation Line, Minority and Property Rights (1943-1983) (Darko Dukovski)......Page 301 The Italian Communist Party’s Policy on Trieste as Viewed by Vittorio Vidali (1954-1975) (Patrick Karlsen)......Page 325 Imperfect Normalization. The Political Repercussions of the Treaty of Osimo (Diego D’Amelio)......Page 345 Resisting Détente. The Associative Network and the Osimo Treaty (Fabio Capano)......Page 369 Biographical Notes of Authors......Page 399 Index of Names......Page 403 World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, during the years of Détente, that rapprochement between Rome and Belgrade became possible and normalization of bilateral relations was attained. Long-lasting territorial disputes, such as the Trieste question, were solved and bilateral relationship greatly improved, so much so that Belgrade became an important asset in Italy's Balkan and Adriatic strategy, while Rome was a sort of bridge between Socialist Yugoslavia and Western Europe. This book is intended to shed light on the process of Italian-Yugoslav normalization and rapprochement, which ultimately brought to the Adriatic Détente. Based on a wide collection of primary sources and documentary materials, it aims to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Adriatic region, a conflicted European space that had been affected by territorial disputes and ethnic strife for decades during the 20th century. -- Provided by publisher

World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, during the years of Détente, that rapprochement between Rome and Belgrade became possible and normalization of bilateral relations was attained. Long-lasting territorial disputes, such as the Trieste question, were solved and bilateral relationship greatly improved, so much so that Belgrade became an important asset in Italy's Balkan and Adriatic strategy, while Rome was a sort of bridge between Socialist Yugoslavia and Western Europe.
This book is intended to shed light on the process of Italian-Yugoslav normalization and rapprochement, which ultimately brought to the Adriatic Détente. Based on a wide collection of primary sources and documentary materials, it aims to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Adriatic region, a conflicted European space that had been affected by territorial disputes and ethnic strife for decades during the 20 th century.