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Craxi-Andreotti a włoska Ostpolitik
Craxi-Andreotti and the Italian Ostpolitik

Author(s): Enrico Landoni
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Italy; Poland; Iron Curtain; democratic opposition; East-West relations

Summary/Abstract: The intense period of Craxi’s government (1983-1987) was characterised by a new, even unique activity of Italy on the international scene. In that very period, the country tried to assume a role guaranteeing the “international concert”, significantly weakened earlier by the mechanisms of the Cold War. The goal of this new policy of détente was – both for Bettino Craxi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giulio Andreotti – a greater engagement of Italy in the relations with the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. This is the origin of the Italian Ostpolitik, which – seen in this text both as a whole and as a collection of its particular stages of growth – finds a lasting and unique understanding of its basic qualifications in the easing of bilateral relations with Jaruzelski’s Poland and their further development.

  • Issue Year: 301/2019
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 146-163
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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