Università Roma Tre

The course is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the most important events of the transformations of the war from the end of the Second World War to today: the armed conflicts of the Cold War, the wars of decolonization, the wars between non-Western powers and the search for a new world order after 1990.
The second part is devoted to the impact of wars in Italy and Europe between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with a deepening of the relationship between political and military power.
The first part of the course will consist of lectures, during which also photographs and footage will be employed.
Only for students attending the course, the assessment related to the first part of the course may take the form of a mid-term exam, to be taken during the course (esonero).
The second part of the course will be structured, after an introduction by the instructor, with the discussion of an oral presentation by the attending students on a series of texts chosen from a list that will be presented at the beginning of the course. The interrelation between students is in fact one of the cornerstones of the course.
At the end of the course, attending students will be required to write a 5000 word paper, analyzing the book chosen.
The assessments of the midterm exam and the report will constitute, for attending students, the final grade of the exam.

Testi per i frequentanti
Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006
Letture assegnate dal docente

Testi per i non frequentanti
1. Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006
2. Margaret Macmillan, War. Come la Guerra ha plasmato gli uomini, Rizzoli, Milano, 2021

Per gli studenti frequentanti il precedente corso tenuto dalla prof.ssa Anna Scarantino il programma resta invariato ovvero:
1. J.J. Sheehan, L’età post-eroica. Guerra e pace nell’Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008
2. T. Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017