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This brief commentary would like to address the silent revolution currently taking place in Italy: for the first time in decades, this founder member is reassessing its role in Europe. Throughout most of their recent history, Italians across the political spectrum had regarded Europe as a sort of moral imperative, as an alternative and indeed superior identity in a country with a traditionally weak national identity of its own. In recent months and years, however, this has begun to change, and it is no longer politically incorrect to raise questions which would have seemed almost unthinkable a decade or so ago. The long-standing official Europeanist rhetoric is being questioned, if not abandoned altogether, and it is now perfectly legitimate for Italians in positions of authority to ask themselves: where do our national interests lie in Europe? As Italians, what type of Europe should we favour?.

This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a head in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were the result of a profound crisis in the reform programme launched in 1978. Individual chapters examine the roots of this crisis: the inability to deal sufficiently with the Maoist legacy; insufficient political reform; the clash between Deng's revolution from above and society's revolution from below; the imbalances created by the new economic programme; and the relationship between these domestic changes and China's foreign policy.