Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
WORLD POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (29/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)
Lesson hours
40 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
The course aims to help students understand the machinery of diplomacy and its role in contemporary international society, enabling them to recognize historical continuities, changes and innovations.
Course contents
The introductory section will be devoted to classic authors of diplomatic theory, traditional approaches viewing diplomacy as a specialized form of statecraft and major developments from the rise of resident embassies and foreign ministries to the emergence of new actors (15th–21st century). Current conceptions and procedures in diplomatic practice will be analysed in the core section of the course. Mainly based on case-studies and primary sources taken from 20th century international history, this core section will focus on the following topics: negotiation, mediation, bilateral conventional and unconventional diplomacy/consular activity, multilateral diplomacy, coercive diplomacy, summits, preventive diplomacy, diplomacy and transition regimes. The course will also outline the most relevant trends in the shaping and functioning of multitrack and public diplomacy.
Teaching methods
The course will host lectures and talks by practitioners from outside academia, offering students the opportunity to interact with key figures from the world of diplomatic service and international relations and to relate the account of professional experiences to the main issues examined in the course. Class work will include seminars and assignments to encourage students to take an active part in the discussion and to identify, address and document relevant aspects of the course in a historical perspective.
Reccomended or required readings
Keith Hamilton and Richard Langhorne,
The Practice of Diplomacy. Its Evolution, Theory and Administration,
2nd edition, Routledge, 2010
Part 1, “From the beginnings until 1815″
G.R. Berridge, Diplomacy. Theory and Practice, 5th edition, Palgrave, 2015
Assessment methods
Group presentation, final paper, oral exam
Further information
Group presentation, final paper, oral exam
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