Italy's embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: populist foreign policy and political marketing by Giulio Pugliese and others

Italy’s embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: populist foreign policy and political marketing by GIULIO PUGLIESE, FRANCESCA GHIRETTI AND AURELIO INSISA

Italy and China in 2018–19: a disruptive populist foreign policy? Western Europe's first all-populist parliamentary coalition, between Italy's Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Star Movement, M5S) and the Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP, but commonly known as Lega), constitutes a fertile testing ground for scholarly assumptions on the impact of populist foreign policy as an inherently disruptive process.