Abstract
Autore:
Coticchia Fabrizio
Titolo:
"Opinione pubblica e politica di difesa: il caso italiano"
This article looks at the
complex relationship between public opinion
and defence policy. A detailed literature review
will provide two distinguished approaches on
the nature of the public opinion. A first one,
which is historically related especially to the
50’s and the 60’s, has stressed the image of an
irrational and incoherent public. The absence of
information on foreign and defence policy represents
another crucial element in such a negative
picture. On the contrary, a second phase of
the research (which is emerged mainly after the
War in Vietnam) has emphasizes a different
representation of a public opinion with stable
and rational attitudes, also toward the international
scenario.
The paper, through the support of national
literature and recent surveys, will try to test the
empirical strength of the both images, illustrating
the relationship between the Italian public
opinion and the profound evolution of the Italian
defence policy since the end of the Cold War.
