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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/da1e6fe94ad4cdfd https://verfassungsblog.de/the-politics-of-forgetting-and-foreign-policy/ The Politics of Forgetting and Foreign Policy Siddi, Marco eng 2025-02-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Faschismus Italien World War II el- Alamein faschism post-fascist rewriting el- Alamein Italien Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The “politics of forgetting” – as I call the political strategy of omitting or marginalising key historical events in official memory – influences both domestic and foreign policy. Its effects on foreign policy are multifarious. Not remembering a historical event, or selectively forgetting parts of it, enables a certain foreign policy posture. A further issue arises when an event that is “forgotten” or marginalised in national narratives plays a major role in the political constructions of another country.