Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
SPS/06 (HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2021 - 13/05/2021)
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
The course requires the ability to orient oneself in an international perspective.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to study the fundamental transformations of the international political-diplomatic system in the contemporary age.
Course contents
The course will analyze the following topics:
- formation and historical evolution of the international system (study methodologies and periodization);
- from the Westphalian Eurocentric system to the global system of nation-states;
- diplomatic dynamics of the different historical phases of the 20th century (between competition and cooperation, between globalization and fragmentation)
- the crises of the Empires after the Great War and after the Second World War
- poles of aggregation and interpretative paradigms of the bipolar period and decolonization (East, West, North, South)
- Europe of the twentieth century between conflicts and integration processes
- the enlargement of the International community of States and the roles of International organizations
- the transformations of the international system after the end of the cold war (between new international order and new geopolitics)
- from the "unipolar moment" of the United States to the new role of emerging countries
- the international challenges of the 21st century: terrorism, "new wars", demographic dynamics, energy issues, economic crises.
The general part of the course will be supplemented with monographic studies.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars.
Reccomended or required readings
Texts for exam preparation:
- Atlante storico del mondo, Novara, Istituto Geografico DeAgostini, 2019, pp. 152-207 e 224-233
- F. ROMERO, Storia internazionale dell’età contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (2012), pp. 9-139.
Supplementary text for non-attending students (with parts to be agreed with the teacher): O. BARIÉ, Dalla guerra fredda alla grande crisi. Il nuovo mondo delle relazioni internazionali, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013.
Attending students will be able to make use of the teaching materials made available online and indicated in class.
Assessment methods
Oral-written exam.
Further information
Further information can be provided during the lessons.
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