The Italian Preparadness in a Complex Terrorism-Related Crisis Management and General Rescue Operation

The report describes the activities and operations of the Italian Crisis Management System and the CIP strategies with special reference to the Adriatic Region and its critical infrastructural assets. The objective of the report is to shed light on the Italian approach to the defence against possible threats to the material assets and the safety of citizens in Italy and abroad. In Italy, security and safety are mostly a national matter and homeland security is certainly something that falls within the state sovereignty domain. However, issues like the protection of critical infrastructures are something that sometimes overlaps national territories and goes beyond territorial delimitation. For their connecting roles, critical infrastructures are better framed in regional or trans-regional perspectives than purely national one1. Thus, the EU promoted a specific program to help member state to implement common strategies for critical infrastructure protection, without aiming at substituting or duplicating the prerogatives of each member state. In the case of the Adriatic Region, a set of critical infrastructures which is likely to be target of threats is the one including the maritime dimension. The Adriatic corridor connect EU member states with candidate states, potential candidates and extra EU countries, creating a specific transnational environment based on a web of economic, political and cultural relations and interactions. How would the Italian State react to an emergency in the Adriatic Sea space? How would the Italian crisis management system coordinate its efforts with neighboring countries and international organisations in the case of a terrorist related emergency?