Unit HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003824
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Lorenzo Medici
- Teachers
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- Lorenzo Medici
- Hours
- 63 ore - Lorenzo Medici
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
International and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course
material are also available in English; written and/or oral exams
may be taken in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an
appointment. - Contents
- Fundamentals of the history of international relations with particular reference to political aspects, as well as economic, social and cultural ones.
- Reference texts
- Antonio Varsori,
Storia internazionale
Dal 1919 a oggi, Il Mulino, 2020
or:
Luciano Monzali - Federico Imperato - Rosario Milano - Giuseppe Spagnulo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali (1919-2021). Tra Stati nazionali, potenze continentali e organizzazioni sovranazionali, Mondadori, 2022 - Educational objectives
- Teaching allows to learn the features of the history of international relations, referring to the actions of states, but also to other actors such as international organizations, NGOs, public opinion, and markets. The main objective of the teaching is to provide students with the basics to know the dynamics and contexts of international relations, to fully use the historical, economic and legal knowledges acquired during the previous undergraduate degree programs and to develop an autonomy of judgment and an exhibition and communication capacity on the main issues related to international events of the last century, till the present. Students should therefore be able to formulate independent evaluations, elaborate original ideas and clearly expose their knowledge and positions in a professional context addressed to both specialists and non-specialists.
- Prerequisites
- The passing of Contemporary History exam is a prerequisite for understanding the topics of the class, and to enable the students to follow the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- The teaching takes place through face to face classes.
- Other information
- The attendance of the course is optional but advised.
- Learning verification modality
- Written (multiple choice questions) and oral tests.
- Extended program
- The attempts to create a new international system aftert WWI (1919-1929). The failure of an international order: towards a new European war (1929-1939). WWII: From the European conflict to a global warfare (1939-1945). The origins of the Cold War and the birth of two opposing systems (1945-1956). The emergence of a new world: independence, liberation movements, non-alignment (1945-1960). The short season of a bipolar world: from the age of crisis to the premise of the great distension (1957-1969). The fracture of the Seventies: Western crisis and awareness of the South of the World (1968-1980). From the Cold War to the end of the East-West clash (1979-1991). The illusion of a New international order (1992-2001). From a multipolar world to a new international disorder? (2001-2014)