Indice
- Conflict and Cooperation: Trentino-South Tyrol through the Prism of Autonomy
- Problems of Integration. Trentino and South Tyrol Pass from Austria to Italy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Moderation and contradictions under a military administration
- 3. Liberal Italy and linguistic minorities
- 4. Temporary civil administration and the road to Fascism
- 5. A summing-up
- The South Tyrol Question and the Option Agreement. Fascism and National Socialism in the Nineteen-Twenties and Nineteen-Thirties
- I. Introduction
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II. The Option agreement of the German minority in South Tyrol in 1939
- 1. Historical premisses: The nineteen-twenties
- 2. Ideological reorientation as of the mid-1920s
- 3. Population resettlements under the two dictatorships
- 4. Negotiations, conventions, and propaganda in 1939
- 5. Results and progress between 1940 and 1943
- 6. Upheaval and persecution from 1943 to the end of the war
- III. Conclusion: The consequences
- Beyond the State-Centered Paradigm. The Principle of Autonomy in De Gasperi’s Political Thinking
- 1. Unity of state and defence of lesser territorial communities
- 2. “The gap between state administration and autonomous administration”. Transition to the Kingdom of Italy after the Habsburg years
- 3. Death and rebirth of the autonomist deal
- 4. Towards a full-scale idea of autonomy
- The South Tyrol Question in Post-1945 Europe. Unresolved Issues and New Bones of Contention
- The South Tyrol Question: From the End of World War II to the “Package” in 1969
- The Second Statute of Autonomy for Trentino-South Tyrol. Influence of the Domestic and International Setting
- 1. Ethno-nationalism returns to Europe
- 2. The South Tyrol as an anomalous case. The Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement
- 3. Non-implementation and going international
- 4. Autonomy vs. anomie
- 5. Conclusions: Learning from autonomy?
- The South Tyrol Question at the UN. Self-determination of Peoples in the Cold War Setting
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Peoples’ right to self-determination enflames the South Tyrol question at the United Nations
- 3. The South Tyrol question at the 15th session of the UN General Assembly
- 4. The South Tyrol question at the 16th session of the UN General Assembly
- 5. Dangerous (hypothetical) precedents
- National Reorientation, Habsburg Minorities, and the South Tyrol Question in Postwar Austria
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Postwar Reorientation
- 3. The Austrian Nation and the German-speaking minorities in Habsburg successor states
- 4. South Tyrol and Austrian nation building
- 5. The impact of Austrian nation building on the South Tyroleans
- 6. Conclusions
- The “Commission of 19”. Origins and Significance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mario Scelba and the South Tyrolean problem
- 3. Reaction to the “Feuernacht”: A Commission is proposed
- 4. Tension over South Tyrolean bombers being tortured
- 5. Forming the Commission and the results it achieved
- South Tyrol: Terrorism and its Reconciliation. Negotiations, Consociational Democracy, and Power-sharing
- I. Introduction
- II. Reconciliation
- III. Origin and development of the South Tyrol conflict
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IV. Reconciliation after terrorism
- 1. The role of the South Tyrolean People’s Party
- 2. The role of the United Nations
- 3. Consociational democracy, negotiation, and political inclusion
- 4. The behaviour of the state: Amnesty and mild convictions
- 5. Social reintegration of former terrorists
- 6. The role of language and the terrorist label
- V. Conclusion