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From admiration to competition: Italy as seen from Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Eugenio Pizzimenti
Eugenio Pizzimenti*
Affiliation:
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
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∗ Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The article analyses how Spanish perceptions of Italian domestic politics and its international role have changed over the last decade. The first part of the article presents an overview of the most significant fields of cooperation between the two countries and of the images of Italy in Spanish politics. There follows the reconstruction of non-institutional perceptions through an analysis of articles concerning Italy published by two major Spanish newspapers. The article concludes that the traditional image of Italy as a positive model to imitate has faded away and a more competitive attitude has emerged.

Keywords

special relationshipcompetitionpersonalisation of politicscorruptioneconomic performance
Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Italy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , August 2010 , pp. 337 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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