Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945

ISBN-13: 9780415216128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 296 str.

Dr Aristotle A. Kallis

Opis

This text is a comparative study of the expansionist foreign policies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany from 1922 to 1945. It provides an overview of the ideological motivations behind fascist expasionism and their impact on fascist policies, and explores the two main issues which have dominated the historiographical debates on the nature of fascist expansionism: whether Italy's and Germany's particular expansionist tendencies can be attributed to a set of generic fascist values, or were shaped by the long-term, uniquely national ambitions and developments since unification; whether the pursuit of expansion was opportunistic or followed a grand design in each case.

Spis treści

Introduction The validity of a comparative approach to fascism: Italy and Germany 1 Italian and German expansionism in the longue durée 2 Fascist ideology and territorial expansion 3 Foreign policy decision-making processes under fascist rule 4 Fascist expansionism in practice: foreign policy making (1922–39) 5 Between co-operation and rivalry: relations between the two regimes 6 Fascist expansionism and war (1939–45) Conclusions

O autorze

Aristotle Kallis