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Fabrizio Coticchia

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Professor of Political Science. University of Genoa. Italian Defense and Foreign Policy. IR, Security Studies, FPA (and...Fiorentina)

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 18

Free access: "The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine

In recent years, a research agenda on the party politics of military interventions has flourished. However, considerably less attention has been devoted to analysing party positions on the decision...

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 1d

Defense expenditure: Italy moved from around 1.5% to 2% of the GDP in 2025. How? We don’t know exactly. We waited months for a detailed answer. The DPP (👇) supposed to finally provide some info. Yet, no info at all. Still a mystery…

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 9d

FYI @smsaideman.bsky.social

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 9d

"Extending the armed forces’ participation in internal security gives rise to problems within the military.Soldiers are transformed into subordinates of the police, they are relegated to routine constabulary duties".See this paper, Charles Moskos Prize 2025, on🇮🇹 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 10d

If mil leaders don’t buy the message, they can keep quiet or self-select out. Those who don’t want to be part of politicized military (or agree w/ the ideology) leave. This aims to weed out committed professionals who strongly adhere to norms of nonpartisanship. 6/

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Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Ingolf Kühn, Will Jennings , and 12 more Jan W. Mueller, Ingolf Kühn, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Fabrizio Coticchia, Matthijs Rooduijn, Philipp Sarasin, James Connelly, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Christina Pagel, Claire Sécail, Joost van Spanje, Björn Bremer, David Spurrett, Anita Gohdes

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

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Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

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LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social · 21d

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead

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Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP

Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political v...

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Reposted by Robert Huber, Fabrizio Coticchia

Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen @radboudpol.bsky.social · 25d

New article published by our own @bertjanverbeek.bsky.social Jutta Joachim, Chris Nijhuis, and Andrej Zaslove (with @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social ) in @cambridgecria.bsky.social

👉 'The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war'

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0955...

The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war

Before 2022, many populist politicians had a relatively positive view of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. They welcomed meetings with him, posed for photographs, and even wore T-shirts bea...

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 27d

‘Caccia nederlandesi’? Un po’ di controllo post chat gpt? Dai su

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Fabrizio Coticchia

Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 28d

We have front-row seats to the greatest voluntary liquidation of a great power’s status and geopolitical influence in modern history, writes columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.

The Top 10 Trump Administration Foreign-Policy Mistakes

So far.

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 29d

‘Information and national security during international crises’ EURAC, October 3rd www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Information and national security during international crises

Discussion with Fabrizio Coticchia and Simone Tholens

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Reposted by Nils B. Weidmann, Fabrizio Coticchia

Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Sep 6

Glad to see our paper out: "The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war" Cambridge Review of International Affairs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war

www.tandfonline.com

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Sep 5

Roundtable - Italy and the Transformation of European Security (in Italian. Tavola rotonda sul riarmo europeo) at #SISP25 www.radioradicale.it/scheda/76717...

Conferenza SISP "Political science in the digital age" (prima giornata)

Evento organizzato dal 4 al 6 settembre

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Sep 3

ops..."US Pushes Back on Italy Counting Sicily Bridge as NATO Asset" (yet, still not clear how Italy had mysteriously reached the 2%...) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Frowns on Italy’s Idea of Making Sicily Bridge a NATO Asset

The US said it disapproves of any creative accounting by European allies to reach a new NATO spending target, putting Italy on the spot as the government weighs whether to count the construction of th...

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Sep 1

Grandissimo.

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · Aug 29

‘Ukrainian artillerists say they aren’t using howitzers any less because of drones. They are telling the U.S. and other allies that big guns retain some key advantages, not least greater firepower.’ www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Old-School Artillery Survives and Thrives in the Drone Age

Even as UAVs flood the Ukrainian battlefield, the howitzer’s simplicity and firepower plays a key role.

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Leaders who violate alliances could attempt
to minimize the damage by misrepresenting the terms of
the alliance, claiming that circumstances have changed, or
painting the ally’s behavior in an unflattering light" Tomz and Weeks 2021, ISQ #Ukraine #NATO

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief" news.un.org/en/story/202...

Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday...

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 21

Per chi fosse interessato, un mio intervento a Class CNBC in relazione a guerra in #Ucraina e difesa europea 👇https://video.milanofinanza.it/video/mercati-le-incognite-del-settore-difesa-in-attesa-del-faccia-a-faccia-tra-putin-e-zelensky-x9p6uaa

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Reposted by Mark Harrison, Patrick Dunleavy, Ian Hall , and 4 more Mark Harrison, Patrick Dunleavy, Ian Hall, Fabrizio Coticchia, David R. Miller, Michael Jones‐Correa, Andrew Rudalevige

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Aug 21

Remarkable open letter from Bill Burns. "If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon. Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai." theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

You all deserved better.

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congrats!

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Stephen M. Walt, Lisa W. Fazio , and 8 more Anne Applebaum, Stephen M. Walt, Lisa W. Fazio, Norbert Schwarz, Jennifer A. Richeson, Gavin A. Schmidt, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jon Green, Fabrizio Coticchia, David R. Miller, Dan Immergluck

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 19

People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.

Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?

Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?

Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 19

US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 19

Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.

Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?

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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

✨ Two additional articles from our new #SpecialIssue are now 🆓#FreeAccess! ⏳

1⃣ The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine

By Valerio Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social

📖 Read and ⬇️ download it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m pleased to be part of this special issue, with the paper ‘The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in #Ukraine’ (with V.Vignoli)

South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 #NewIssue (30/1) #SpecialIssue
Everything changes, everything stays the same? #ItalianPolitics after the 2022 general elections

Guest editors: @edegiorgi.bsky.social & Andrea Pedrazzani
Don't miss it! 👇
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fses20/c...

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Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia, Bonnie N. Field

South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Reposted by Michael D. Robinson, Fabrizio Coticchia, Robert C. Richards

Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · Aug 8

NYT reporting today that the admin. is planning to use the U.S. military ag/ cartels. This has actually been in the works for awhile as I argued in this Foreign Affairs piece from April.

It's part of what I see as an effort to politicize the military and transform it into a partisan force. 1/

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

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Reposted by Cas Mudde, Daniel Fiott, Fabrizio Coticchia

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 27

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller https://on.ft.com/3ILGrKP

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller

Relief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start

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