Università Roma Tre

The course includes a manual section, which aims to offer an exhaustive picture of political-institutional, socio-economic and communicative-media transformations in the historical processes that have marked the last two centuries, between 1848 and the present time, with attention to the roots of modernity in the nineteenth century and to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Priority is given to the processes of global interaction and interdependence, placing European history in a global geo-political context and Italian history itself in a transnational perspective.
The course also develops thematic paths that allow to enhance the role of the sources (archival, written, oral, audio-visual, online) in "making history". The path concerns the emergence of a culture and practices of "active citizenship", as a reflection of the values of the Republican Constitution.

The course focuses on the manual volume of Lucio Caracciolo and Adriano Roccucci,Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Milan, Mondadori Education, 2017 [Isbn: 978-88-00-74473-7].
The following in-depth text is the following: Giuseppe Cotturri, Romanzo popolare. Costituzione e cittadini nell’Italia repubblicana, Rome, Castelvecchi, 2019, pp. 266 [ISBN: 978-88-3282-613-5].

The teaching aims to ensure the knowledge about the transformation of the international order after World War II until the globalization and the end of the East-West bipolarity.
The lessons will focus on two specific areas of the history of international relations:
1. The phases of the Cold War: US - USSR confrontation; competitive coexistence; Détente.
2. The key moments of the European Union founding process: the transatlantic relations versus the formation of the Franco-German axis; the European Coal and Steel Community and the proposed European Defense Community; the establishment of new supranational institutions.
The European Community's path will be examined from the point of view of political history (especially with regard to the transnational cooperation between political parties and trade unions) and in terms of the history of ideas, that is the analysis of the federalist thought within the twentieth century political cultures and about the importance of the religious factor on the dynamics of redefining the rules and institutions of European governance.
The course is so tailored in view of an educational goal, namely offering to students a framework for an independent and critical interpretation of the political, socio-economic and cultural patterns that have led to the determination of the foreign policy guidelines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Marialuisa Lucia Sergio, La diplomazia delle due sponde del Tevere: Aggiornamento conciliare e democrazia nelle transizioni internazionali (1965-1975), Studium Edizioni, 2018