Unit STATE BUILDING AND DEMOCRATIZATION
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A001436
- Curriculum
- Cooperazione internazionale e state building
- Teacher
- Andrea Possieri
- Teachers
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- Andrea Possieri
- Hours
- 42 ore - Andrea Possieri
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- After several introductory lessons, this course will focus on the process of state building and democratization in the contemporary world (20th and 21st centuries), with particular reference to international political events after the fall of the Berlin wall.
For attending students, there is a specific programme. - Reference texts
- - Davide Grassi, Le nuove democrazie. I processi di democratizzazione dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008.
A second text to be chosen from the following:
- Jan Zielonka, Contro-rivoluzione. La disfatta dell'Europa liberale, Laterza, 2018.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, La metamorfosi delle nostre democrazie, 2018.
-Mény Yves, Popolo ma non troppo. Il malinteso democratico, Il Mulino, 2019. - Educational objectives
- The student will master the most important historical-political episodes in the current debate on the process of state building and democratization. The skills acquired will be fundamental in future employment in the fields of international organizations.
- Prerequisites
- No.
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lessons, seminars, dvd projections, tests.
- Other information
- There will be some conferences.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is for an intermediate written test and an oral exam at the end of the course.
- Extended program
- After several introductory lessons, this course will focus on the process of state building and democratization in the contemporary world (20th and 21st centuries), with particular reference to international political events after the fall of the Berlin wall.
Special attention will be given to the spread of populism in Europe and to the debate regarding the crisis in representative democracy.