The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine

Valerio Vignoli and Fabrizio Coticchia

South European Society and Politics, 2025, vol. 30, issue 1, 133-157

Abstract: In recent years, a research agenda on the party politics of military interventions has flourished. However, considerably less attention has been devoted to analysing party positions on the decision to provide military assistance to an actor involved in the conflict. This article focuses on Italy’s support for Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion. Triangulating quantitative and qualitative data, we examine party positions and how they evolved from the Draghi to the Meloni government. We find that moderate parties have generally been more supportive than extreme parties except Brothers of Italy, whose stance is still coherent with its own peculiar core values.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2024.2408233

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