The IR Department is well represented at the Political Science Association’s annual gathering which this year is in London. All three are giving papers on research they have done on different aspects of Italian politics showing the Department’s commitment as a producer of original work on Italy.
Ratti continues his work on Italian foreign policy with “Systemic pressures and ‘bandwagoning’: Italy’s foreign and security policy since the end of the Cold War” at the session “Italian Foreign Policy: pressures, practise, power” while Thomassen, writing with Rosario Forlenza is breaking new ground with a paper on the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi “The civic nationalism of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi” in the session “The Italian presidency in the post-war political system”
Walston is speaking at “The election of 2008 and the Italian political system: Quo vadis?” with a paper titled “Berlusconi’s Permanent Legacy – the Third Republic?” and at “Italy in the Post-Cold War Order: Adaptation, Bipartisanship, Visibility” with a paper based on his recent article “Italy between and beyond Europeanism and Atlanticism“
