Between 2021 and 2024, Italy has increasingly focused on the Indo-Pacific region, responding to the growing importance of this area in global geopolitics.
During this seminar, Max Weber Fellow Lorenzo Termine explores Italy’s strategic shift, examining its naval diplomacy, defense cooperation, and engagement in multilateral initiatives.
Italy’s involvement in projects like the Global Combat Air Programme, stronger relations with key regional partners like Japan and India, and its decision to pivot away from the Belt and Road Initiative exemplify its evolving foreign policy.
In the event, Termine will investigate Italy’s increasing Indo-Pacific engagement between 2021 and 2024. The research goal is to trace the determinants of this growing Italian pivot to Asia, and to conceptualise Italian actions within a theoretical framework to better grasp its nature, goals and means.