Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992

Andrea Guiso is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches the course Contemporary Political, Social and Cultural History.Alessandra Tarquini is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She has published many essays on Italian intellectuals and is researching a new project about the Italian left and the Jewish question.

• 1. Introduction: Italian intellectuals and international politics.- I. Liberal Democrat political culture.- 2. The “blood of others”: Mao’s China in the discourse of Liberal Democrat Intellectuals during the Fifties.- 3. Telling the truth: From socialist towards democratic antifascism and anti-totalitarianism in the 1950s.- 4. Il Mulino and the East-West ideological confrontation: From destalinization to 1968.- 5. Guido Carli: A liberal technician and the making of Europe.- II. Catholic political culture.- 6. Italian Catholic intellectuals and indigenous Latin Americans: Transnational networks and violence at the end of the Cold War.- 7. Catholic culture put to the test of Détente: The case of Augusto Del Noce.- 8. The international politics of a Christian realist: Beniamino Andreatta and Europe.- III. Socialists and Communists.- 9. Antisemitism and the Arab-Israeli question: The Italian left in the first ten years of the Republic.- 10. An Italian communist in the Spain of the ‘60s: The worthless journey of Rossana Rossanda.- 11. The debate on post-colonial Africa on the pages of “Mondoperaio”: The reflection of socialists on decolonization (1955-1987).- 12. Solidarity and Italian labor movement culture: CGIL intellectuals and revision of the CGIL’s International relations (1980-1982).- 13. PCI intellectuals and the image of “Reagan’s America”.