Relations between territorial entities during the Cold War have increasingly interested academic researchers, causing a change of perspective in the study of international relations. Whereas until a few decades ago historical analysis focused exclusively on nation-states and their central apparatuses, recent analysts highlighted the significant role played by local authorities (from regional to municipal levels) in establishing relations with their foreign counterparts. This research fits within this framework and originates from a question concerning the nature and extent of contacts between the Region of Apulia and the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Montenegro during the 1980s. Its aim is to interpret the line of interaction between the two entities, which transcended both political distances (owing to the different systems of their respective central states) and geographical ones (represented by the Adriatic Sea), thereby closing a network of relations that connected all Italian and Yugoslav coastal regions, surrounding a large portion of the Adriatic area.
I rapporti intercorsi fra enti territoriali nel corso della Guerra Fredda suscitano sempre più interesse nella ricerca accademica, favorendo un cambio di prospettiva nello studio delle relazioni internazionali. Se, infatti, fino a qualche decennio fa l'analisi storica poneva al centro di queste dinamiche politiche esclusivamente gli Stati nazionali e i loro apparati centrali, recentemente sono aumentati i contributi di ricercatori che hanno dimostrato l'importanza, tutt'altro che secondaria, ricoperta dagli enti locali (da quelli regionali a quelli comunali) nell'intessere relazioni con enti di pari estensione. In questo quadro si inserisce tale ricerca, partita dal quesito sulla natura e sul volume dei contatti fra la Regione Puglia e la Repubblica Socialista Jugoslava del Montenegro nel corso degli anni '80 del XX secolo. Il fine è di interpretare la linea di contatto fra i due enti, la quale trascendeva le distanze politiche (date dai diversi ordinamenti dei due Stati centrali) e quelle geografiche (rappresentate dal Mare Adriatico), e chiudeva un cerchio di relazioni che univa tutte le regioni costiere italiane e jugoslave, ovvero gran parte dell'Adriatico.
Transregional Diplomacy and Cooperation Across the Adriatic: The Apulia Region and the Socialist Republic of Montenegro (1980-1989)
D'ANNA, STEFANO
2025/2026
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Relations between territorial entities during the Cold War have increasingly interested academic researchers, causing a change of perspective in the study of international relations. Whereas until a few decades ago historical analysis focused exclusively on nation-states and their central apparatuses, recent analysts highlighted the significant role played by local authorities (from regional to municipal levels) in establishing relations with their foreign counterparts. This research fits within this framework and originates from a question concerning the nature and extent of contacts between the Region of Apulia and the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Montenegro during the 1980s. Its aim is to interpret the line of interaction between the two entities, which transcended both political distances (owing to the different systems of their respective central states) and geographical ones (represented by the Adriatic Sea), thereby closing a network of relations that connected all Italian and Yugoslav coastal regions, surrounding a large portion of the Adriatic area.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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