Unit HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANITATIONS
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003775
- Curriculum
- Conflitti internazionali, studi strategici e analisi di politica estera
- Teacher
- Lorella Tosone
- Teachers
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- Lorella Tosone
- Hours
- 60 ore - Lorella Tosone
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2026
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Formazione storico-internazionale
- Sector
- GSPS-04/B
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course will focus on the history and evolution of international organizations from the end of the 19th century to the present. In particular, the following topics will be covered: - Internationalism in the age of nationalism: the first forms of international cooperation (the Public International Unions, the Hague system, the first transnational civil society organizations) - The League of Nations: collective security and economic and social cooperation - The United Nations system: collective security, development cooperation and protection of human rights - International financial institutions: the origins and transformation of their role - Regional organizations and groups of states
- Reference texts
- ATTENDING students will be provided with the program, with the list of essays and articles to study, before the start of the course on the Unistudium platform. NON-ATTENDING students will refer to the following texts: John Allphin Moore jr.and Jerry Pubantz, The New United Nations. International Organization in the Twenty-First Century, New York, Routledge, 2023. All study materials are available to students at the Biblioteca di studi Storici, politici e sociali or can be found through the University's digital library (Unipg Primo https://csb.unipg.it/ ) Only materials not otherwise available will be made available through the Unistudium platform.
- Educational objectives
- Through the analysis of the origins, historical evolution, and functioning of the major international organisations, this course aims to provide students with critical tools for interpreting the transformations of the international system from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It further seeks to refine students' dialectical and analytical skills by offering opportunities for in-depth seminar discussion.
- Prerequisites
- Given the advanced nature of this course, students are expected to have already acquired a foundational knowledge of twentieth-century international history, with particular reference to the post-Second World War period, as might be gained from the study of a comprehensive textbook. Students with significant gaps in their background are advised to consult the volume by antoby Best, Jussi Hanhimäki, Joseph Maiolo and Kirsten Schulze, International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Routledge, 2024.
- Teaching methods
- Teaching will be conducted through lectures, seminar sessions, and student presentations.
- Other information
- Office hours: after each lecture or by appointment (lorella.tosone@unipg.it)
- Learning verification modality
- For students attending the course, assessment will be based on:
- Two optional written examinations, one at mid-course (immediately following the teaching break) and the other at the end of the course
-A presentation on a topic covered in the course, which the student will be required to explore in depth and deliver in class
-Regular attendance and active participation in lectures will constitute additional and significant elements of assessment
Each of these components will be assigned a mark contributing to the final grade.
Students will be considered as attending if they are present for at least 25 out of 30 lectures.
For non-attending students, assessment will be based on:
-A final oral examination during the official examination sessions, covering both the general and the monographic sections of the syllabus. The examination will be designed to ascertain the student's knowledge, depth of understanding, and capacity for critical analysis of the topics addressed.
Erasmus and international students may request teaching materials and sit all examinations in English. Please contact the instructor at the beginning of the course to arrange an individualised study plan. - Extended program
- Study materials for attending students will be indicated on the Unistudium platform before the start of the course.
Non-attending students are required to refer to the following volumes:
Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni, Politica di potenza e cooperazione. L'organizzazione internazionale dal Congresso di Vienna alla globalizzazione, Padova, Cedam, 2013, 452 pp.
AND 2) one text of their choice from the following:
Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher, James Milner, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection, London–New York, Routledge, 2011, 220 pp.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The Millennium Development Goals. Ideas, Interest and Influence, London–New York, Routledge, 2017, 273 pp.
Luciano Tosi (ed.), Le sfide della pace, Wolters Kluwer–Cedam, 2017, Part One. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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