From Sustainable Development to Military Cooperation: Two Facets of Italian Foreign Policy
The article analyzes the foreign policy of Italy over the past five years (from the adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda for the implementation of the sustainable development goals to the present). The author gives a brief description of the features of the modern foreign policy of Italy, then examines the problem of the implementation of national interests in the context of globalization and the primacy of supranational structures and their relationship to the priority areas of development of international organizations. The choice of organizations is determined by the following factors: 1) the “novelty” of the Italian state's foreign policy directions (the SDGs1 have been implemented since the end of 2015, and the European structure of PESCO2 has been in existence since the end of 2017); 2) participation in both organizations is one of the priorities of Italy's foreign policy. The article considers Italy's participation in the PESCO organization as the closest structure that allows realizing Italian national interests. Based on the analysis of reports on the implementation of the SDGs, conclusions are drawn about the effectiveness of Italian policy in this area.