V Ciclo Anual Jovens Cientistas Sociais
2009-2010
14 de Abril 2010, 17:00, Sala de Seminários do CES
Matteo Antonio Albanese (Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença I)
The italian extrem right in Spain and Portugal: from 1956 to 1974. A transnational history of nationalism.
Resumo: After the end of World War II, fascist regimes stand in Portugal and Spain. In 1968 a coup ruled by the army settled down a fascist regime in Greece. In Latin America the number of right-wing oriented dictatorships was enormous before and after the 1945. In the so-called western countries, fascist and nazist organisations survived also in the States that officialy banned them .
During the Cold war, these organisations merged together to create a kind of political, theoretical and operational network. One of this network's goal was to politically destabilise those western democracies where, as in Italy, the communist parties were strong.
We can analyse this issue from different perspectives: the relationship between the network and the US; the strong link that some of these structures had with partes of the State apparatuses; the ideological level; the generational shift occured to members, from the militants who participated to World War II to the ones who did not. We should as well focus on the issue related to the colonial discourse and the dissolution of colonial power.
The questions I want to pose in this paper are only two:
In which way the theoretical background of these groups changed to better fit the Cold war era?
How much important was the support of the fascist regimes survived in Europe for the development of these groups?
The analysis will be based on trials documents and archives documentation collected in Italy, Spain and Portugal, in order to show the process of bulding and enlarging the network and the changes of the network's political spechees related to the transational environment.
Nota biográfica: Matteo Antonio Albanese is a 3rd year PhD student at the European University Institute of Fiesole (Italy) in the Faculty of History and Civilization. The provisional title of his thesis is: The Red Brigades: self-representation and strategy (supervisor: H.G. Haupt (EUI); external supervisor M. Lazar (Sciences-Po, Paris)). He works on political violence and terrorism in Europe during the XX century. His fields of interest include as well the global and the transnational history of the political groups in particular the creation of links between political organizations across Europe as a sign of the process of globalization.
