1. How to Become a Great Power: Italy in the New International Order, 1917-1922. Antonio Varsori -- Part I: Italy and the Allies -- 2. Lloyd George, Italy, and the Making of a New World Order, 1916-1922. William Mulligan -- 3. Italy through British Eyes, 1919-1920. Giulia Bentivoglio -- 4. France and Italy in the Making of a New Central Europe, 1918/1922: Cooperation and Rivalry. Frédéric Dessberg -- 5. Wilson's Parallel Diplomacy: The American Red Cross and Italian Public Opinion, 1917-1919. Daniela Rossini -- 6. The King's Diplomacy from World War I to its Aftermath. Andrea Ungari -- Part II: Italy and the Vanquished Nations -- 7. Italy and Austria, 1918-1920: Overcoming Hereditary Enmity. Maddalena Giutto -- 8. Betraying the Allies? Italy, Hungary and the Béla Kun Intrigue. Valentine Lomellini -- 9. Public Optinion in the Weimar Republic and the Image of Post-War Italy, 1918-1922. Monica Fioravanzo -- Part III: Italy and the New Europe -- 10. Searching for a Policy for the New Europe: Italy and the Eastern European Settlement at the Paris Peace Conference. Francesco Caccamo -- 11. Encroaching Visions: Italy, Yugoslavia and the Adriatic Question, 1918-1920. Massimo Bucarelli and Benedetto Zaccaria -- 12. Italy: The View from Moscow from 1917 to the Rise of Mussolini. Elena Dundovich -- 13. Italy Faces the Birth of the League of Nations. Italo Garzia -- 14. A Mutilated International Order. Georges-Henri Soutou. .

This edited collection offers the first systematic account in English of Italy’s international position from Caporetto – a major turning-point in Italy’s participation in the First World War – to the end of the liberal regime in Italy in 1922. It shows that after the ‘Great War’, not only did Italy establish itself as a regional power but also achieved its post-unification ambition to be recognised, at least from a formal viewpoint, as a great power. This subject is addressed through multiple perspectives, covering Italy’s relations and mutual perceptions vis-à-vis the Allies, the vanquished nations, and the ‘New Europe’. Fourteen contributions by leading historians reappraise Italy’s role in the construction of the post-war international order, drawing on extensive multi-archival and multi-national research, combining for the first time documents from American, Austrian, British, French, German, Italian, Russian and former Yugoslav archives.