Advances in Historical Studies 2013. Vol.2, No.4, 185-193 Published Online December 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2013.24023 Italy and Mozambique: Science, Economy & Society within a History of an Anomalous Cooperation Luca Bussotti1, Antonella De Muti2 1Centro de Estudos Internacionais ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal 2Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Email:
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[email protected] Received November 18th, 2013; revised December 19th, 2013; accepted December 26th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Luca Bussotti, Antonella De Muti. This is an open access article distributed under the Crea- tive Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any me- dium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2013 are reserved for SCIRP and the owner of the intellectual property Luca Bussotti, An- tonella De Muti. All Copyright © 2013 are guarded by law and by SCIRP as a guardian. In this article the authors aim at showing how an “anomalous” international and very intense cooperation between Italy and Mozambique was born. In fact, Italy has not a strong colonial tradition, especially in Mozambique, so it seems interesting to try to understand the reason why this former Portuguese colony has become the Italian most important partner in its cooperation activity. This analysis is based on the main hypothesis related to the birth of international bilateral cooperation: they have been seriously considered in order to explain the origin of this strange relationship, but they cannot completely clarify this particular case.