Italy’s New Far-Right Government: Implications for Europe and Beyond.

Guest Speaker:ÌýDr Andrea Dessì,ÌýIstituto Affari InternazionaliÌý(±õ´¡±õ)
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: The AUR Auditorium, via Pietro Roselli, 16 - 00153, Rome.

Italy is set to have its most radical right-wing government since World War II. One of the questions this raises is whether the next Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, was elected despite her neo-fascist roots or because of them (e.g. during the political campaign, Meloni’s party used the Mussolini-era slogan: ‘God, Homeland and Family’).

Our guestÌýspeaker, Dr. Andrea Dessì will help us analyze:

1. the impact of the Italian far-right government on the European Union (EU)
2. the position of the new government on foreign and security policy issues – e.g. Russia and the war in Ukraine
3. the changes at the national level in terms of civil rights, migration policies, and basic income.Ìý

Dr. Andrea Dessì
Andrea DessìÌýis Head of IAI's Italian Foreign Policy Programme, Senior Fellow within IAI’s Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa program, and Editorial Director of IAI’s English-language seriesÌý. He is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Strategic Studies Implementation and Research Centre, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara.

Dr.ÌýDessì has worked extensively on US and European foreign policy towards the Middle East with a particular focus on the diplomatic and military history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, US policy towards Israel, and Washington’s alliance frameworks in the Middle East. His research interests include security studies, the geopolitics of the Middle East, and the intersection between global and regional trends and developments.

Dr.ÌýDessì holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a thesis on the US-Israel relationship during the 1980s. He has worked with IAI since 2011 and has contributed to a number of EU-funded projects and research tasks (FP7 & H2020).

Dr. Dessì recently published (with his colleague, Vassilis Ntousas):ÌýItaly’s Election and the Rise of Hard Right ConservativismÌý