Russian and Chinese Influence in Italy Requires Investigation
Foreign interference could have caused the downfall of Mario Draghi’s centrist government
A view of the prime minister's office Chigi Palace the day after Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi tendered his resignation to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome, Italy, on July 15, 2022. Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
Matteo Salvini, the head of a rising far-right party in Italy, has some big problems. They mirror those in many other countries, where the center-right and far-right are diverging, according to David Broder, an expert on contemporary Italian fascism.
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
