Effie G.H. Pedaliu analyzes the British Labour government's contribution to the postwar reconstruction of Italy. The book focuses on five areas: the punishment of war criminality; the reconstruction of the Italian armed forces; the Italian elections of April 1948 and Italy's institutional role in western security arrangements and on European integrative bodies. It reveals that British policy towards Italy was underpinned not only by power politics but also by moral and ideological considerations.

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Britain and the Prosecution of Italian War Criminals The Reconstruction of the Postwar Italian Armed Forces The 'British Way to Socialism': British Intervention in the Italian Election of April 1948 and its Aftermath The North Atlantic Treaty: Britain and the Issue of Italian Membership Britain, Italy and European Cooperation in the 1940s Conclusion Bibliography

Effie G. H. Pedaliu is a Fellow at LSE IDEAS, UK, having previously held posts at LSE, KCL and UWE.  She is the author of Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and a co-editor of Britain in Global Affairs, Volume II, From Churchill to Blair, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and also, The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century, (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). Pedaliu is the co-editor with John W. Young of the Palgrave Macmillan book series, Security Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. She is a member of the peer review college of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a co-convenor of the International History Seminar (IHR). 

The main themes of her work include transatlantic relations since 1945, the international history of the Cold War, American and British Cold War policyand strategy, European and Mediterranean security and politics, Human Rights and European Integration. Her articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, International History Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Cold War History and Diplomacy and Statecraft. She is a regular contributor to the Greek broadsheet Kathimerini on Sunday and a blogger on current affairs.