Review article
https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.51.18
THE BURNING BORDER. A comparative study of the problem of Trieste and other territorial issues confronted by Italy after defeat in the Second World War
Federico Tenca Montini
Abstract
The article describes why the Trieste issue is the only one of the territorial disputes Italy had with neighbouring countries at the end of the Second World War that still influences Italian public opinion and policy. The first part of the work briefly describes the problem that Italy had with its former colonies, and with France, Austria and Yugoslavia. While the topic is not discussed in detail for the sake of brevity, emphasis has been placed to the mutual impact each of these territorial issues had on the others during the period when the looming Cold War influenced all of them. The second half of the article explains what made the Trieste issue unique and why it still plays an important role in the Italian national consciousness. The article is based on Italian, Croatian and Slovenian historiography and refers, for specific aspects, to documents from the Office of the Marshal of Yugoslavia (Fond 836 - Arhiv Jugoslavije) and the Political Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (PA - DAMSP).
Keywords
Paris Peace Conference (1947); Cold War; Trieste crisis; South Tyrol; formerItalian colonies
Hrčak ID:
236024
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2019.
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