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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2015
....” Giurlando argues that rather than improving Italy’s political economy or Italian competitiveness, as many politicians promised when Italy adopted the euro, joining the eurozone had the opposite effect; it placed Italy in an economic straightjacket with little room to enact necessary structural...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 29–48.
Published: 01 September 2015
... is assistant professor of international relations at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, and teaches European and Middle Eastern politics. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Italy and the euro euro adoption Europe Italian competitiveness Italian economy Italy...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Sotiris Rizas is director of research at the Modern Greek History Research Center, Academy of Athens, Greece. Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017 Italian economy Greek economy Bretton Woods postwar recovery A Stabilization and Development Dilemma: The United States...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (2): 114–118.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the real fighting; (2) the naval war ended with the Italian armistice; (3) the Mediterranean was the last great cam- paign fought and was won exclusively by imperial British arms; and (4) the motivation and participation of the French navy is misunderstood, as it is so often dismissed as treasonous...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (2): 118–121.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the real fighting; (2) the naval war ended with the Italian armistice; (3) the Mediterranean was the last great cam- paign fought and was won exclusively by imperial British arms; and (4) the motivation and participation of the French navy is misunderstood, as it is so often dismissed as treasonous...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (2): 121–124.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the real fighting; (2) the naval war ended with the Italian armistice; (3) the Mediterranean was the last great cam- paign fought and was won exclusively by imperial British arms; and (4) the motivation and participation of the French navy is misunderstood, as it is so often dismissed as treasonous...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 147–166.
Published: 01 December 2004
... unemployment insurance was not compulsory in Switzerland until 1977. In the immediate postwar period, migration fl ows to Switzerland almost exclusively consisted of workers from Italy holding seasonal or annual per- mits. Italians came to Switzerland to work in the construction industry, fac- tories...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (1): 40–58.
Published: 01 March 2015
... markets has been inducing a relentless competitive dynamic, with severe displacement of Italian compa- nies across all of Italy’s traditional production sectors, comprehensive restruc- turing of its small and medium enterprises, and a heavy toll on employ- ment borne by the Italian society...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (2): 53–79.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of statistics paints a slightly more positive picture. In 2011, for instance, 14 percent of Greeks participated in volunteer work, in contrast to 26 percent for Italians, 15 percent for Spaniards, and 12 percent for Portuguese. The EU average registered 24 percent. During the same period, 7 percent...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome. ...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (3): 6–37.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In fact, it was these Italian city-­states that laid the foundation for the more recent classic “financial revolutions” of the Netherlands, England, and the United States in terms of the commitment-­to-­honor-­debt mechanism (public debt), the role of public banks (central banking...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., contending that to this day Italian national memory has still not come to terms with Italy’s role as an ally of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. As Focardi argues, the overwhelm- ing attention for throwing Europe into chaos and engaging in war crimes dur- ing the Second World War has been...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2001) 12 (2): 66–82.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Nikolaos A. Stavrou On 7 April 1939, Good Friday, an armada of Italian warships and troop car- riers surprised the inhabitants of three Albanian ports, Durrës, Vlorë, and Sarandë. Benito Mussolini had had enough of His Majesty King Zog I...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and the lack of viable alternatives. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born,” wrote many, borrowing lines from the Italian political thinker Antonio Gramsci. “In this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”1 While the Gramscian...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 141–144.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-­0-­ 7391-­6821-­9. $76 (hardcover). Reviewed by Dominique Maillard. The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb by Claudia Esposito is an update of the some of the most important literary texts written in French and Italian by various significant contemporary authors from...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 144–146.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-­0-­ 7391-­6821-­9. $76 (hardcover). Reviewed by Dominique Maillard. The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb by Claudia Esposito is an update of the some of the most important literary texts written in French and Italian by various significant contemporary authors from...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 147–150.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and Italian by various significant contemporary authors from former French North African colonies. It asserts itself as an antidote to “dogmatic and identitarian fundamental- isms,” among which is the much feared “clash of civilizations between ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’ on European ground.” In this respect...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (3): 88–104.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of nationalist ideas and make the local elites familiar with British values. The second objective was to combat Italian propaganda.18 Since the early 1920s, with the advent of Mussolini’s fascist regime, Italy had gradually developed revisionist aspirations in the eastern Mediterranean. Two of the most...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (2): 40–59.
Published: 01 June 2009
... the Italian Economy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). 5. Ibid. Royo: The Politics of Adjustment and Coordination at the Regional Level  43 challenges, the Basque regional government and the economic actors have developed innovative capacities that have promoted further coordination...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 77–92.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of the Italian party system in the mid-­1990s, the collapses of the party systems of Germany and France in 2005 and 2008, respectively, are indicative of the unraveling of the consolidation of party systems in both of these countries.30 In this economic and political climate, the social characteristics...