Società editrice il Mulino it 1120-9526 Contenere le paure incontrollate in politica estera: come recuperare la nostra identità di americani The Author, a theologian, argues that religious apprehensions, such as good versus evil, are in many ways embedded in American politics. The essay discusses American foreign policy during the last 60 years, when political anxieties in the West shifted from the Cold War mind-set (the West vs. tyranny) to the current fears caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (the West vs. anarchy). After what has become known as 9/11, the Bush administration adopted a Manichean view, extended the power of the presidency and let the "imperial self" dominate the "civic self". Yet only the latter, along with an awareness of the risks of a dualist response to dualists, can allow America to recover its true national identity. William F. May 2008 10.1412/26986 10.1412/26986 1 131 152 Il "ritorno alla patria" nel sovversivismo del primo Novecento. Percorsi politico-culturali di una generazione di intellettuali italiani One of the most important aspects of Italian culture in the early 1900s is the way in which socialism and the Socialist party lost appeal as a political and ideological horizon. This essay shows how this crisis was followed by a redefinition of political and cultural identities: many socialists left political activity to return to cultural life, others underwent a religious conversion and became Catholic militants, others became nationalists, while other former socialists remained in a domain that could be defined as "subversive", that had little in common with official Socialism. In this multifaceted galaxy, the figure of Mazzini resurfaced to become the symbol of a truly "national" revolution, that consolidated itself during the war in Libya and, even more, in the Summer of 1914, when the different currents of democratic and revolutionary interventionism emerged. Roberto Pertici 2008 10.1412/26987 10.1412/26987 2 153 176 Writing about the "Revolution". Nuovi studi internazionali sul movimento del '68 Once again capable of unleashing a lively public debate and arousing a lasting inte-rest in the media of the Western countries, "1968" has been the subject of historical research only since the 1990s. This review aims to present the developments in the most recent historiography through a comparative approach to the results of research published in the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany. In dealing with the issue, the authors have set themselves three issues for their analysis. First of all, what were the context and the triggering factors behind the movement. Secondly, a reconstruction of who the main actors and what the main sites of the protest were and whether historiography has reconfirmed the perception of the globality that this event had for its contemporaries. Lastly, what was the precipitate and the historical significance of the "1968 event" for Western democracies. Patrick Bernhard, Anne Rohstock 2008 10.1412/26988 10.1412/26988 3 177 192 Intellettuali e arte della contaminazione. Sulla crisi persistente del conservatorismo americano This essay is aimed at demonstrating that American conservatism has been for long divided between market-related and moral needs and that it was capable of stabilizing itself whenever conservative theorists have been able to formulate a new synthesis of political ideas or even to modify political issues. The so-called "Fusionism" during the 1960s and, to an even larger degree, the so-often discussed and seldom properly understood neo-conservatism bear witness to this. It would be a mistake to interpret these intellectual, political and, not least, passional tensions as an element of weakness of American conservatism. On the contrary, one could argue that such tensions have always provided a stimulus, on the one hand, for a creative re-definition of conservatism and, on the other, for the building of political coalitions open to widening processes. Jan-Werner Mueller 2008 10.1412/26989 10.1412/26989 4 193 200 Biblioteca 2008 10.1412/26990 10.1412/26990 5 201 258 Indice degli autori e dei volumi recensiti 2008 10.1412/26991 10.1412/26991 6 259