Fascist Ideology: Territory And Expansionism In Italy And Germany, 1922-1945

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Fascist Ideology is a comparative study of the expansionist foreign policies of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany from 1922-1945. Fascist Ideology provides a comparative investigation of fascist expansionism by focusing on the close relations between ideology and action under Mussolini and Hitler. With an overview of the ideological motivations behind fascist expansionism and their impact on fascist policies, this book explores the two main issues which have dominated the historiographical debates on the nature of fascist expansionism: whether Italy's and Germany's particular expansionist tendancies can be attributed to a set of generic fascist values, or were shaped by the long term, uniquely national ambitions and developments since unification; whether the pursuit of expansion was opportunistic or followed a grand design in each case. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 8 List of abbreviations......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Italian and German expansionism in the longue duree......Page 22 Fascist ideology and territorial expansion......Page 38 Foreign policy decision-making processes under fascist rule......Page 72 Fascist expansionism in practice: foreign policy making (1922 39)......Page 115 Between co-operation and rivalry: relations between the two regimes......Page 149 Fascist expansionism and war (1939 45)......Page 170 Conclusions......Page 204 'National' traditions and 'fascist' innovations: the continuity debate......Page 208 Leaders, 'fascist' values and 'national' interest......Page 210 Dealing with differences: the limits of a generic definition of fascist expansionism......Page 213 Notes......Page 216 Select bibliography......Page 269 Index......Page 288