Unit INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL POLITICS
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003774
- Curriculum
- Conflitti internazionali, studi strategici e analisi di politica estera
- Teacher
- Silvia Bolgherini
- Teachers
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- Alessandro Campi (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 60 ore (Codocenza) - Alessandro Campi
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Formazione politologica
- Academic discipline
- SPS/04
- 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, as detailed in the course program, may be taken in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an appointment during the first week of the Fall/Spring Semester.
- Contents
- The global politics of the third millennium and its historical, ideological, and geopolitical foundations. With an in-depth analysis of the origins of international political thought from modernity to the present day.
- Reference texts
- Manuale (lettura obbligatoria): J. Grieco, G. J. Ikemberry, M. Mastanduno, Introduzione alle relazioni internazionali. Domande fondamentali e prospettive contemporanee, UTET, Novara, 2017. Testo di lettura (obbligatorio): Alessandro Campi, Michele Chiaruzzi (a cura di), Pensiero politico e relazioni internazionali. Dalla modernità al mondo globale, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2025
- Educational objectives
- It is an interdisciplinary program designed to complement the graduate degree work by providing the fundamentals of contemporary international issues and/or detailed knowledge on particular world regions or countries. Give to the student a basic knowledge of the main theoretical approaches and conceptual tools for understanding and analyzing political processes and institutions in a comparative perspective.
- Prerequisites
- It may be useful for the student to have attended one of these courses: History of International Relations, International Law, EU Law, History of America, History of Eastern Europe, etc. It is instead necessary to have taken the exam in Contemporary History
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face and seminars
- Learning verification modality
- Progress assessments (written paper) and final oral exam.
- Extended program
- The first part of the course is dedicated to the main theoretical and methodological paradigms of international relations (from political realism to liberal institutionalism, from Marxism to constructivism). Particular attention will be given to 20th-century classics whose theories have most significantly contributed to the scientific analysis of international politics and its dynamics: from E. H. Carr to Raymond Aron, from H. J. Morgenthau to K. Waltz. A specific focus will also be devoted to the origins of international political theory, from the early modern period to the end of the 19th century. The second part of the course focuses on the defining features of the international political system throughout the 20th century and on the transformations it has undergone in contemporary times. The course will also include an in-depth study of specific crisis areas, with contributions from analysts and international policy experts.