Università Roma Tre

The program is different for students attending and non-attending classes.

The course analyzes the history of International Relations from the mid 1980s till the first year of the Obama Administration.

The main topics of the course are:
- End of the Cold War
- German reunification
- Iraq-Kuwait 1990-1991 war and the international reaction
- collapse of Jugoslavia
- the crisi in Somalia
- Rwanda genocide
-the crisis in Kosovo
- 9/11 attacks and War on Terror

The focus of the course will be on the kind of international reactions in each crisis, the behavior of the main players of the international system (national states, organizations and alliances) and on the evolution of the threats to the security during the period analyzed (mid 1980s; 1990s, and the first decade of the XXI century).

The program is different for students attending the course (STUDENTI FREQUENTANTI) and students non-attending the course (NON FREQUENTANTI)

TEXTBOOKS COMPULSORY FOR ALL (attending and non-attending students):

1) Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali dal 1919 ai giorni nostri (Roma: Laterza, 2008), Last part: from "L'arrivo di Reagan e Gorbachev al potere"

2) Giuseppe Mammarella, Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la Guerra Fredda (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010)


Students Attending classes (STUDENTI FREQUENTANTI):
In addition to these books (Di Nolfo and Mammarella, compulsory for all), students attending classes have to study readings (articles and books) assigned by the professor during the course.

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Students non-attending classes (STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI):
In addition to these books (Di Nolfo and Mammarella, compulsory for all), students non attending classes have to CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THREE OPTIONS:

1) ASIA (2 books)

- Bill Emmott, Asia contro Asia. Cina, India Giappone e la nuova geografia del potere (Milano: Rizzoli, 2008)

and one between the following two:

- Barbara Onnis, La Cina nelle relazioni internazionali. Dalle guerre dell' Oppio a oggi (Roma: Carocci, 2011)

- or: Sumit Ganguly, Storia dell'India e del Pakistan. Due paesi in conflitto (Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2004), pp. 1-16 - and from 94 to the end

2) STATI UNITI (BOTH books)

- Pierre Hassner e Justin Vaisse, Washington e il mondo. I dilemmi di una superpotenza (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004)
- Niall Ferguson, Colossus. Ascesa e declino dell'Impero americano (Colossus: The rise and fall of the American Empire, 2004; Milano: Mondadori, 2006)

3) ONU

- Paul Kennedy, Il Parlamento dell'Uomo. Le Nazioni Unite e la ricerca di un governo mondiale (Milano: Garzanti, 2007)