Non-colonial Military Interventions in Africa

Since the end of the bipolar era, Italy has regularly undertaken military interventions around the world, with an average of 8,000 units employed abroad in the twenty-first century. Moreover, Italy is one of the principal contributors to the UN operations. The end of the cold war represented a turning point for Italian defence, allowing for greater military dynamism. Several reforms have been approved, while public opinion changed its view regarding the armed forces. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive perspective of the process of transformation that occurred in post-cold-war Italian defence, looking at the evolution of national strategies, military doctrines, and the structure of forces. After a brief literature review, the study highlights the process of transformation of Italian defeshnce policy since 1989. Through primary and secondary sources, the chapter illustrates the main changes that occurred, the never-ending cold-war legacies, and key challenges.

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Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice

10.1093/oso/9780198812852.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Richard W. Miller

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Large Scale ◽

Political Community ◽

Violent Conflict ◽

Military Interventions ◽

Support Intervention ◽

Spheres Of Influence ◽

Base Of Support ◽

External Intervention ◽

Target Country

This chapter argues for greater reluctance to launch humanitarian military interventions, without appealing to any inherent value in sovereignty or autonomous political community. Instead, it appeals to the likely consequences of such intervention—both within the target country and for international relations. Miller considers four types of candidate for intervention: stable tyrannies, unstable tyrannies, popular secessions, and ongoing large-scale killing and displacement. Only in the last of these should we be disposed to support intervention according to Miller, since the likely consequences that plague the other three types are here less challenging. Stable tyrannies are usually maintained because the regime has engineered a wide base of support among elites. External overthrow thus risks unleashing violent conflict between divided groups. In unstable tyrannies internally-driven regime change is preferable. Finally, in popular secession external intervention can stoke Great Power worries about spheres of influence and inspire military build-up.

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International military interventions: Identification and classification

International Interactions ◽

10.1080/03050628808434701 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 173-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Frederic S. Pearson ◽

Robert A. Baumann

Keyword(s):

Military Interventions

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Wolfgang Wagner The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions: Political Parties, Contestation, and Decisions to Use Force Abroad

International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis ◽

10.1177/00207020211019324 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 340-341

Author(s):

Justin Massie

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Democratic Politics ◽

Military Interventions

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EXAMINING STATE-BUILDING OF THE SYRIAN REPUBLIC AND THE LEGACY OF ITS COLONIAL PAST

Contemporary Eurasia ◽

10.52837/25792970-2021-10.1-5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 5-20

Author(s):

Ani MATEVOSYAN

Keyword(s):

Structural Analysis ◽

Institutional Development ◽

State Building ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Military Interventions ◽

Current State ◽

Building Process ◽

Political Consolidation ◽

Historical Past

Abstract: This research tackles essential elements of Syrian state-building processes through a structural analysis incorporating several theories and concepts including but not limited to colonialism, nationalism, military interventions, institutional development, minority rule, and eventually neocolonialism. The article reveals how minority rule and different implications of military interventions shaped today’s Syria, as well as addresses some of the current issues such as the absence of domestic political consolidation. The primary aim of this research is to contextualize the role of France—as a former colonizer, within the state-building process of Syria by examining different phases of Syria’s historical past. An examination of Syria’s political developments proved that having inherited a colonial past, the current state of Syria has also inherited an unavoidable legacy of political instability from its colonial past. Keywords: Syria, Middle East, State-Building, Colonialism, Military Interventions.

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