Fabrizio Coticchia

@fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social

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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...

www.tandfonline.com

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d

In case this got lost, reminder that at COP30 the United States is not sending any high level representatives, and apparently no technical staff either, for the first time in 30 years.

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 4d

-E come va il dibattito pubblico in Italia sulla politica estera e le relazioni internazionali?
-Eh, al confronto, va meglio la Fiorentina…

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 4d

"Information and national security during international crises" www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Information and national security during international crises

Discussion with Fabrizio Coticchia and Simone Tholens

www.eurac.edu

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · 4d

It is worth noticing that Italy remains the sole W middle power without a National Security Strategy and a National Security Council...

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 5d

Germany’s new National Security Council has met for the first time last night. It’s topic was hybrid threats (👀 @sicherheitspod.de )

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 5d

Germany’s new National Security Council has met for the first time last night. It’s topic was hybrid threats (👀 @sicherheitspod.de )

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump on.ft.com/48HkTdu

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump

Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

on.ft.com

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia, Michal Onderčo, Bonnie N. Field

South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 22d

💡 Valerio Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social FIND…💡
a curvilinear support for military aid across the left–right axis. Yet, FdI’s backing constitutes a deviation from this model.

Read the article here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 23d

It’s a beautiful day to resist democratic backsliding!

Protest sign: “they’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances”

Protest sign: “No Kings, No Kleptocrats, No Dic-Tator-Tots”

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

From 1,5% to 2% of the GDP in "one night" for 🇮🇹...
How? Still a mystery not explained by official docs (below the DPP): "military mobility" (??) + "sectors with more military focus" (???)
🤔

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

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 · Oct 1

FYI @smsaideman.bsky.social

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

"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/...

Reposted by Kori Schake, Fabrizio Coticchia

Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · Sep 30

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/

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 · Sep 26

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

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Reposted by Robert Huber, Fabrizio Coticchia

Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen @radboudpol.bsky.social · Sep 15

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...

doi.org

Fabrizio Coticchia @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Fabrizio Coticchia

Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · Sep 12

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.

foreignpolicy.com

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

‘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

www.eurac.edu

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 ...

journals.sagepub.com

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

www.radioradicale.it

Reposted by Hubert Zimmermann

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...

www.bloomberg.com

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.

www.wsj.com

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...

news.un.org

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

video.milanofinanza.it

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