2020
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This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.
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Stefano Marcuzzi
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Stefano Marcuzzi took his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford in 2016, and subsequently joined the European University Institute (Florence) as a Max Weber fellow, working on EU-NATO cooperation in the Mediterranean. In 2018-2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels. Now he is a Marie-Curie fellow at the University College Dublin, an analyst in Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation (Rome) and an external fellow at Boston University (BU).
