ABSTRACT
The essence of our analysis is that the Anti-Comintern Pact, formally proclaimed on 25 November 1936 between Germany and Japan, and to which Italy became the Third Signatory on 5 November 1937, owes its origin to three interrelated factors:
the desire of each signatory nation to seek an end to its relative international isolation;
the desire of each signatory nation to seek amendment to the international status quo decreed at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919;
the perception that each signatory nation had of the threat posed to the attainment of its national interest(s) by the Soviet Union.
