Unit PEACE STUDIES
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A003407
- Curriculum
- Cooperazione internazionale e state building
- Teacher
- Dario Biocca
- Teachers
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- Dario Biocca
- Hours
- 36 ore - Dario Biocca
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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
- English
- Contents
- The course studies how wars end. Readings and class discussions explore the challenges of settling territorial disputes, reallocating economic resources, re-designing the future of nations and peoples, implementing a new international order intended to prevent future conflicts.
- Reference texts
- There are no books to buy. All reading material will be made available on the University's learning platform.
- Educational objectives
- At the end of the course students will be able to appreciate the complexity of the diplomatic and political work required to achieve peace accords. They will also assess the effectiveness and failures of some peace initiatives in the middle and long term.
- Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of the global history of the 20th Century
- Teaching methods
- The class is organized as a seminar. Active participation to class discussions is a fundamental requirement.
- Other information
- Proficiency in English, both spoken and written, is essential. Please ask the instructor if you have any questions. Participation to class meetings is mandatory.
- Learning verification modality
- A written test (40% of grade) and a paper (60% of grade).
- Extended program
- 1. Peace and war, definitions and analytical paradigms
2. The “discovery” of America, environment, violence and biology
3. The African diaspora, the abolitionist campaign
4. Leo Tolstoj, War and Peace, the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
6. The Great Illusion, Norman Angell and the New Pacifism
7. The Treaty of Versailles
8. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
9. Yalta and the New World Order
10. From Perestrojka to Start treaties - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile