POL3142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sergio Mattarella, Matteo Renzi, Benito Mussolini
15 Apr 2016
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While stephen harper has been into power, italy has a 6 prime ministers. Next week: spain, nordic countries (no benelux countries), than eu. For other compare and contrast questions separate paragraphs by countries rather than ideas. Handed back thursday next week (10 days) Population: 60. 7 million rapidly aging population (one of the lowest birth rate in the world) The physical location is super important for its historical and political development. Not a lot of natural resources (coal, gas, etc. ) Really important in shaping the cultural future of the rest of europe (roman) Italy remains on the sidelines of european power diplomacy. Allied with the central power germany, austria and hungarian, but remained neutral. Eventually join the conflict, but on the side on france and britain (against their former alliance) 600 000 italians died during ww1 suffered into the tranche warfare. Traumatic experience for western europe with long lasting consequences that eventually lead to ww2 (fascism, nazism)
