This book intends to make NI more accessible and viable, especially as a critical device for better understanding contemporary politics. The purpose is to refresh the debate on NI and to explore this fascinating concept, appreciating its multifaceted and malleable nature. Throughout time, NI has been presented as an ambiguous but obstinate concept in politics, political discourse, and theoretical elaboration. NI has constantly resurfaced, and many designate themselves as its protectors. Its increasing relevance, pertinence and recurrence make it clear that it can no longer be ignored in political analysis.
1. Introduction.- 2. National Interest between the State and the Global.- 3. Tracing National Interest.- 4. The Antinomies of National Interest.- 5. National Interest and Brexit.- 6. Does a European Interest Exist?.- 7. Epilogue.
Serena Giusti is Head of the Programme on Eastern Europe and Russia at SantAnna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies in Milan.
The concept of National Interest is central to the study of IR. In this path breaking analysis Serena Giusti asserts the continuing theoretical relevance of the concept through carefully researched case studies of Brexit and the EU. This book represents a major contribution to the field of IR .
Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, Hamilton College, New York,
Serena Giustis book is a brilliant trip into one of the most resilient and used concept by scholars and practitioners in the field of IR. A guide to understand its constant resurrection.
Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Professor of International Relations, Catholic University, Milan
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