Identity Crisis in Italy

Contents Introduction 7 Stefano Bottoni: Wasted Opportunity? Italy and Central Europe at the End of the Cold War 9 Daniele Scalea: How Immigration is Changing Italian Demography: Statistics and Perspectives 25 Fortunato Musella: The Italian Governors from the Constitutional Reform to the Crisis of Regionalism 37 Paolo Soave: The Middle Power at the Geopolitical Crossroads: Italy and the Dilemma of Foreign Policy 51 Luigi Rullo: The Corruption of Regional Presidents in Italy from 1990 to 2015 65 Paola Bordandini - Geny Piotti: A Geography of "Identity" Trust in Italy 79 Lorenzo Castellani: Administrative Traditions Matter 95 Miklós Losoncz: Italy's Major Economic Challenges: Large Government Debt and Fragile Banks and the EU 117 Balázs Vizi: Linguistic Rights and Small Minority Communities in Italy from Trento to Sicily 131 Anna Molnár: Italy and the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis 149 Fanni Tanács-Mandák: Italian Immigration Policies - Legal Frameworks between 1980 and 2017 167