«Condemned to a Mediterranean destiny». Italy and the neutrality agreement with Malta in the Summer of 1980
Journal title VENTUNESIMO SECOLO
Author/s Mariele Merlati
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2017/41
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 91-109 File size 337 KB
DOI 10.3280/XXI2017-041007
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
Based on a remarkable amount of primary sources from Italy, Great Britain, the United States and Malta, this essay examines the last stage, in the summer of 1980, of the negotiation of the agreement by which Italy undertook to guarantee Malta’s neutrality to contain Soviet influence in the area. The essay examines the negotiation process which involved Rome and Valletta from the end of the Seventies to the beginning of the following decade, as well as the position taken by the main North Atlantic Treaty partners and the implications of the agreement on Maltese and Italian relations with Qaddafi’s Libya.
Keywords: Italy; Malta; Libya; Mediterranean; Neutrality; NATO.
Mariele Merlati, «Condemned to a Mediterranean destiny». L’Italia e l’accordo per la neutralità di Malta dell’estate del 1980 in "VENTUNESIMO SECOLO" 41/2017, pp 91-109, DOI: 10.3280/XXI2017-041007