Enrollment year
2017/2018
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 (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)
Lesson hours
40 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
This course aims to help students understand the machinery of diplomacy and its role and challenges in contemporary international society, enabling them to recognize historical continuities, changes, and innovations.
Course contents
The course focuses the process of institutionalization of diplomacy (15th-20th Century) and recent cases and formats of conventional and unconventional bilateral diplomacy, multilateral diplomacy, as well as mediation and negotiation cases.
Teaching methods
Lectures and in class discussion on recommended readings and on issues raised by the teacher
Reccomended or required readings
G.R. Berridge, "Diplomacy: Theory and Practice", Palgrave, 2015, 5the ed.;
required readings for each unit will be indicated in detail before the start of the semster.
Assessment methods
contribution to class discussion in order to improve critical analysis and application of theoretical concepts, categories and formats to practical cases;
written assignements;
oral exam
Further information
Some teaching units might host practitioners from outside Academia (e.g. junior and senior diplomats and former UN officers)
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