The course analyses the international system in the XX century, giving specific attention to the European integration, the Cold War, and the evolution of the international relations from the end of the Cold War to the present. This encopasses not only the traditional policy-makers, such as the governments and the international organizations, but also the growing role of new subjects, such as the civil society, the NGOs, the media, the financial markets
For those students who do NOT attend the lessons:
Ennio Di Nolfo, Dagli Imperi militari agli imperi tecnologici, Laterza editore, 2006 edition or more recent ones.
Salvatore Bono, Un altro Mediterraneo, Salerno ediz., 2008, only pp. 111-229 and 253-272.
For the students attending lessons in class:
Ennio Di Nolfo, Dagli Imperi militari agli imperi tecnologici, Laterza, 2006 edition or more recent ones.
Salvatore Bono, Un altro Mediterraneo, Salerno ediz., 2008, only pp. 111-202.
Additional must-read material will be available during classes.
Learning Objectives
Goals: knowledge of international relations in the twentieth century.
SKILLS: Critical analysis of sources and literature in Italian and other European languages.
Prerequisites
Students must master the basic knowledge and the mail lines of development of the international relations in the XX century.
Teaching Methods
lectures by the teacher and other Faculty teachers : 60 hours.
Each student will be asy to prepare a set of questions and a report related to one lesson.
The third module will resume themes and issues addressed in the course of History and Politics of the Mediterranean, now disabled.
Further information
If necessary, foreign students may contact the teacher to choose alternative texts for the final exam.
Type of Assessment
Oral final exam
Course program
The course - divided into three training modules and complemented by lectures and seminars given by other fellow teachers - offers a critical reading of the history of the international system in the twentieth century. Following a chronological and thematic track, the lessons address the major issues of international politics between the wars, capture the events of the Second World War, origins of the clash between Western powers and the Soviet Union, illustrating the onset and development of cold War in its various phases, the maximum voltage to the distension of the Eighties. Major international issues of the post-Cold War era presented as well.
The monographic part - the third module - is derived from the course of History and Politics of the Mediterranean, now disabled.