Europeanism and Atlantism in the Italian Foreign Policy: Focused on Continuity and Change

This paper will try to examine the significance, role and co-relations of Europeanism and Atlantism that has been two axes of the Italian foreign policy from the end of the 2nd World War to the present. Through the research, this paper will make clear that Europeanism and Atlantism were in complimentary relations and were good instruments to achieve national interest, a substantial goal of Italian foreign policy. Europeanism and Atlantism have been preserved with continuity in Italian foreign policy. Even after the Cold war, they merely had changes in the style of conducting the center-right and center-left governments. As for the co-relations between Europeanism and Atlantism, the two orientations have been supplementary in pursuing national interests of the country.