Identity Crisis in Italy

Contents
Introduction 7
Stefano Bottoni: Wasted Opportunity? Italy and Central Europe at the End
of the Cold War 9
Daniele Scalea: How Immigration is Changing Italian Demography:
Statistics and Perspectives 25
Fortunato Musella: The Italian Governors from the Constitutional Reform
to the Crisis of Regionalism 37
Paolo Soave: The Middle Power at the Geopolitical Crossroads:
Italy and the Dilemma of Foreign Policy 51
Luigi Rullo: The Corruption of Regional Presidents in Italy from 1990 to 2015 65
Paola Bordandini – Geny Piotti: A Geography of “Identity” Trust in Italy 79
Lorenzo Castellani: Administrative Traditions Matter 95
Miklós Losoncz: Italy’s Major Economic Challenges: Large Government Debt
and Fragile Banks and the EU 117
Balázs Vizi: Linguistic Rights and Small Minority Communities in Italy
from Trento to Sicily 131
Anna Molnár: Italy and the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis 149
Fanni Tanács-Mandák: Italian Immigration Policies – Legal Frameworks
between 1980 and 2017 167