title: Interests and Stability or Ideologies and Order in Contemporary World Politics
abstract: Drawing upon a career's worth of both theoretical and empirical research, according to the Italian school of political science, the author provides a holistic assessment of contemporary world politics in this volume. The book commences by defining some concepts like "world order", namely a governance process with fixed values: during the post-1989 era those of market, democracy and peace. Foreign policies are then classified into four models of political cultures: the "interests-intensive" conse