La diplomazia economica come strumento delle relazioni internazionali: l'esempio Mattei e il marchio "Fiat"

Abstract

This essay deals with the strategy of the Italian economic diplomacy in the frame of the Cold War, as the best tool of dialogue between the West and the Communist world, already eroded by the containment doctrine. Thanks to the intervention of key figures, among all Enrico Mattei and Vittorio Valletta, Rome and Moscow were able to effectively talk each other, although the military and political escalation all across the Sixties.