Università Roma Tre

This module will review the main theoretical approaches and historiographical debates in the history of international relations during the 19th, 20th and 21th centuries. More specifically, the course will debate the strategy of the main European and world powers, discussing key issues in international relations from the crisis of the Concert of Europe until the creation, evolution, and crisis of the World Concert.

Teaching will be based on four main units:
*Introduction to the main analytical approaches and historiographical debates
*1814/5 – 1945: analysis of the Concert of Europe, of the concept of balance of power, and of collective security from the 19th century until the end of the Second World War
*1945 – 1989: analysis of the system of collective security through the creation of the UN and its paralysis and, the formation of a World Concert, the balance of terror and its evolution, until the collapse of the Soviet bloc
*1989 ad oggi: analysis of the crisis of the logic of the balance of power and of the quest for a new international order after the Cold War

Required textbook:

Anthony Best, Jussi M. Hanhimaki, Joseph A. Maiolo, Kirsten E. Schulze (eds), Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali (Torino: UTET, 2014)

Suggested Reading:

Kissinger Henry, Ordine Mondiale (Milano, Mondadori, 2015)
Lucio Barbetta, L’Italia e l’avvio del processo di distensione internazionale (1955-1958) (Milano: Guerini, 2015)
Ennio di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Vol. 3: Dalla fine della guerra fredda a oggi (Bari: Laterza, 2016)