The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

Strategic Studies

Instructor: Niccolò Petrelli
C.F.U. 8

Presentation and Course Aims
What is national strategy? What is the link between foreign policy objectives and defense choices? How is military power developed? What is the connection between technological innovation, industry and national defense? The course aims to introduce the topics of strategy, defense policy and development of military power focusing in particular on the Italian case. The aim of the course is therefore to lead students to familiarize with the concept of national strategy and with the actors and dynamics of defense policy, to inform them about some of the fundamental issues concerning the development of the Armed Forces, and to present a framework reference theorist for the analysis of national defense policies.
At the end of the course students will be in possession of:

1. Basic knowledge of strategic theory, Italian defense and military policies within the framework of NATO and the EU.
2. Analytical tools necessary for an informed discussion of the themes of strategy and defense in the context of the post-Cold War international political system.

The course starts with an analysis of the concept of strategy in its various forms, providing a general overview of strategic theory. Subsequently, it introduces a series of analytical tools aimed at understanding the dynamics of formation of the strategy at the national level, the problems linked to it and the actors involved. Particular attention will be devoted to the Italian case through the study of the mechanisms and methods of development of the national security strategy (SSN), of the national security architecture and of the defense policy on the basis of primary sources, first of all the White Book of Defense of 2015.
In the second part the course moves to analyze military affairs. The main theories developed in the defense field from the mid-90s and the main enabling technologies are examined in detail. This is followed by an analysis of the main challenges related to the transformation, development and modernization of the armed forces. It focuses on the Italian armed forces in the Euro-Atlantic framework, with particular reference to the potential and risks posed by the application of ideas related to the theories of the Revolution in Military Affairs, the Network-Centric Warfare. Last but not least the course tackles the topic of the industrial aspects of Italian defense policy.
The course closes with an analysis of the future trajectory of EU defense policies based on analysis of technological-industrial-military trends of the last twenty years.

Teaching Approach and Evaluation Criteria
The course is divided into lectures. Their format however, is similar to that of a seminar , ie it involves continuous interaction between teacher and students. Before each class, students are required to take the readings assigned by the teacher in order to conduct an informed discussion on the topics covered in the classroom. The course teaching material is half in Italian and half in English, whose knowledge is therefore essential.

Assessment:
25% participatione to class discussions
25% presentations
50% final exam

Week 1 – Basic Concepts

1. Introduction: the Study of Strategy

2. The Concept of Strategy

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), 17-32.*

3. Strategy: A Multifaceted and Multilevel Concept

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 33-47.
Peter Layton, ‘The Idea of Grand Strategy’, RUSI Journal 157/4 (August 2012), 56-61.

Week 2 – From Strategy to “Grand Strategy”

4. Strategys Development

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 58-74

5. Strategy's execution

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 74-91.

6. How Strategy Works

Richard K. Betts, ‘The Trouble with Strategy: Bridging Policy and Operations’, Joint Force Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 2001–02), 23-30.

Week 3 – Strategy and National Security in Italy: Architecture, Organization and Process

7. How Strategy works: Planning

P. H. Liotta and Richmond M. Lloyd, ‘From Here to There: The Strategy and Force Planning Framework’, Naval War College Review, 58/2 (Spring 2005).

8. Strategy and National Defense: The Italian case

Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 7-23.

9. Organization (I): The Supreme Defense Council

Riccardo Bellandi, Il Consiglio Supremo di Difesa (Bologna: Dipartimento di Diritto Pubblico, 2012), 279-327.

Week 4 – Strategy and National Security in Italy: Architecture, Organization and Process (II)

10. Organization (II): Intelligence, Strategy and National Security

Alfonso Montagnese & Claudio Neri, L’evoluzione della sicurezza nazionale italiana (Roma: Sistema per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza della Repubblica, 2016), 1-9, 10, 16-17.

11. National Strategy and Defense in Italy

Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 41-54.

12. From National Security to National Defense

Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 1 e 2.

Week 5 –Technology and Defense Transformation

13. National Defense: Implications for the Armed Forces

Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 3 e 4.

14. The Origins of the RMA-IT

Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War (Washington DC: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, 2004), 1-24

15. RMA's Technologies

Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War, 24-42.

Week 6 – The Next RMA? (I)

16. The Future of the It-RMA
Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War, 42-68

17. The Robotics Era

Robert O. Work and Shawn Brimley, 20YY Preparing for War in the Robotic Age (Washington DC: CNAS, 2014).

18. Artificial Intelligence

Michael C. Horowitz, Gregory C. Allen, Edoardo Saravalle, Anthony Cho, Kara Frederick, and Paul Scharre, Artificial Intelligence and International Security (Washington DC: CNAS, 2018).

Week 7 – The Nexy RMA? (II)

19. The Cyber Revolution

Joseph S. Nye, Cyber Power (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School).

Jacquelyn Schneider, Digitally-Enabled Warfare: The Capability-Vulnerability Paradox (Washington DC: CNAS, 2016).

20. Autonomous Weapons Systems

Paul Scharre and Michael C. Horowitz, An Introduction to Autonomy in Weapons Systems (Washington DC: CNAS, 2015).

21. FORZA NEC: General Features

‘Le nuove esigenze militari e la Network Centric Warfare (NCW)’ in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 31-42.

Tommaso de Zan, ‘L’Italia e il programma Forza NEC’, in Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones e Alessandro R. Ungaro, Innovazione Tecnologica e Difesa: Forza NEC Nel Quadro Euro-Atlantico (Roma: IAI, 2015), 119-134.

Week 8 – The Transformation of the Italian Armed Forces: FORZA NEC

22. The Transformation of the Italian Army

‘Il Caso Italiano’, in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 58-76.

23. The Transformation of the Italian Air Force

AAVV, Il ruolo dei velivoli da combattimento italiani nelle missioni internazionali: trend e necessità (Roma: IAI, 2014), 61-65, 83-110

24. The Transformation of the Italian Navy

AAVV, La Sicurezza nel Mediterraneo e l'Italia (Roma: IAI, 2014), 140-147.

Luca Peruzzi, “Italy seeks naval power to match strategic need”, Janes Defense International (2017).

Week 9 – Technology, Industry and Defense in Italy

25. Research, Technological Innovation and Defense in Italy

Luisa Riccardi, ‘Difesa, ricerca ed innovazione tecnologica’, Tecnica, Professione & Società (2016).

26. The Italian Defense Industry (I)

Claudio Catalano, La politica industriale nel settore della Difesa (Roma: CeMiSS, 2016), pp. 20-26

27. The Italian Defense Industry (II)

Claudio Catalano, La politica industriale nel settore della Difesa (Roma: CeMiSS, 2016), pp. 72-101.

Week 10 – The European and Transatlantic Dimension of National Defense

28. The EU Level: l’Italia e la European Defense Agency (EDA)

Antonio Calcara, ‘Italy’s defence policy in the European context: the case of the European Defence Agency’, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9/3 (2017), 277-301.

29. The NATO Dimension

Silvano Frigerio, ‘Lo Strumento Militare Nazionale nell’ottica delle Iniziative NATO Smart Defence e EU Pooling e Sharing’, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università del Sacro Cuore vol.7 (2014).

30. Conclusions

Week 11
Students' Presentations

Week 12
Students' Presentations (II)


Students will have to submit group presentations on the topic “The US, the Third Offset Strategy e the Transtlantic Gap: Which Future for EU Defense?”.
The instructor will provide students with teaching material, the groups can autonomously draw on sources ONLY from these two internet sites:
https://eda.europa.eu/info-hub/publications
https://www.rand.org/randeurope/publications.html
Presentations will be discussed in class during the last two weeks of the course.

Students not atteding classes will have to submit 3 papers during the course. Comprised between 1000-1500 words, they will have to be submitted directly to the instructor according to this timetable:

21 October: weeks 1, 2, 3, 4.
23 November: weeks 5, 6, 7.
16 December: weeks 8, 9, 10.

By December 16, students not attending the course will have to submit a 3000/3500 words paper on the policy presentations' topic.

Teaching material will be provided directly by the instructor

DESCRIPTION:

The Course is developed into two main sections, debating on the theoretical concept of the right to development as a human right and analyzing the international development cooperation within the United Nations system as well as the international Organizations – IOs - working in the economic, financial and trade fields. Also the regional and national systems (e.g. the European Union and the Italian framework) and the non institutional actors (e.g. NGOs and private business companies) will be investigated.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:

Students will be able to:

• To comprehensively examine the most significant views regarding the legal framework of the international development law in the past and current international debate as well as in the international practice, in particular concerning IOs.

• To be updated on lessons learned and good practices in terms of international development cooperation frameworks and related challenges, in particular in relation to the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda scenario.

• To have an in depth understanding of the crucial role played by institutional and non institutional actors in the international development law framework.

• To get focused on contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues through the awareness of the pivotal role, played particularly by BRICs and Developing Countries, thanks to the study of ad hoc policy documents.

• The students will develop an inquiring thinking, thanks to a variety of learning activities in class, such as essay questions, oral presentations, writing assignments, reports, case studies, guest speakers, so to have a real and tangible understanding of how international development cooperation theories at large are put into practice by States, International Organizations (IOs), non institutional actors, such as NGO’s, and other key players.

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the Course; the UN framework: past vs. future international development cooperation
Topic: Preliminary basics of the International development cooperation
Conceptual framework of the International development cooperation
Operational mechanisms and procedures
The right to development and international cooperation

Topic: Key-elements of the right to development
Economic, sustainable and social factors at the core of the human development concept: theoretical and practical approach
International actors: donors and partners; IOs; the role of the United Nations within the international cooperative framework
From MDGs to SDGs
Approaching to the 2015 time limit and beyond: the new era of the post-2015/2030 Development Agenda

PART II – The financial/trade development cooperation
Topic: The International financial and trade development cooperation
The role and action of the World Bank Group and related development cooperation mechanisms and models
The financial cooperation of the International Monetary Fund

Topic: Trade Law and development cooperation principles
The basics of WTO: principles and rules to create and perform International development cooperation practices
Comprehensive overview about international financial and trade development cooperation actors and models

PART III – The regional dimension, the non-institutional approach of the international development cooperation
Topic: The regional dimension of the development cooperation
Historical, legal and practical features of the development partnership between EEC/EU and the African and Mediterranean Countries
The European development model cycle: analysis and implementation in a comparative perspective

Topic: The non institutional actors of the international development cooperation
NGOs: private profile, global action
The business and the International development cooperation: rethinking the way for best actions
Corporate Social Responsibility and human rights protection in the view of development cooperation

PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

This course in taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) UNDP, Human Development Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019 (free choice of one UNDP Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport) / the 2020 Edition will be released in the second half of 2020

2) Books:
2010, Rumu Sarkar, International Development Law. Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance, Oxford University Press, chapters 2 and 4, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398281.001.0001/acprof-9780195398281

3) Articles listed by Journal/Review (one choice) free access to Journals/Reviews on www. sba.uniroma3.it, please refer to the Syllabus.

International economics theories will be analyzed in a historical sequence, from the 18th century to the present day.

F. Masini, Storia e teorie delle relazioni economiche internazionali, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2017.
F. Masini, SMEmorie della Lira. Gli economisti Italiani e l’adesione al Sistema Monetario Europeo, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2004, second edition 2014.
(For all those who take the exam in English, there is a collection of papers and book chapters which can be borrowed from the Library of the Faculty.)

Part One
Section 1
The key concepts of public policy evaluation. The relationships between input, output and outcome. The indicators and statistical techniques at the various stages of evaluation: ex-ante, on-going and ex-post.
Section 2
Statistical references for the analysis of the evaluation of effects.
Evaluation of the effects of investment aid policies: experimental and non-experimental methods. the counterfactual approach and models used in the non-experimental methods. Case studies and examples.
Section 3
The European Union's regional policies and Structural Funds. The evaluation of structural policies.

Part Two

Section 4
The concepts of efficiency, productivity, economy, effectiveness, quality and sustainability. A brief overview of production or cost functions in the PA and DEA. Case studies and examples.
Section 5
The ex-ante evaluation of public investment projects. Feasibility studies. Swot Analysis. Cost-benefit analysis. Multicriteria analysis. Example methods and cases.
Regulatory impact assessment in Italy: technical instrumentation and experience gained.

Learning Material
Part One
Section 1
Texts 1 (A):

A1. A. Martini, M. Sisti, "A ciascuno il suo. Cinque modi di intendere la valutazione in ambito pubblico", Informaires, n.33, Dicembre 2007, pp. 1-9.
https://dokodoc.com/queue/a-ciascuno-il-suo-cinque-modi-di-intendere-la-valutazione-in.html

A3. M. De Castris, Le fonti statistiche per l’analisi e la valutazione delle politiche, Dispense didattiche, Roma, 2015.
A5. European Commission (2013) EVALSED GUIDE: The resource for the evaluation of Socio-Economic Development. cap. 4 Choosing methods and techniques par. Acquiring and using data in evaluation; Creating Indicators and indicator systems pp. 81-88. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf

Section 2
Texts 2 E

E1. A. Martini, M. Sisti (2009), Valutare il successo delle politiche pubbliche, Il Mulino, capp. VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII.
Lettura integrativa:
E2. Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. Parte prima. (http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)
Un manuale di statistica per rivedere concetti di base modello di regressione.
Per esempio: Borra Di Ciaccio “Statistica: Metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali”, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Gary Koop “Logica statistica dei dati economici”, Utet, 2001.

Section 3
Texts 3 C:
C1 V. Pupo (2003) La valutazione delle politiche strutturali, Rubbettino.cap.3 (pp. 53-78).
C2. F. Busillo, T. Muccigrosso, G. Pellegrini, O. Tarola, F. Terribile (2010) L’impatto della politica regionale sulla crescita delle regioni europee: un approccio basato sul regression discontinuity design. Collana UVAL-DPS, Analisi e studi, N.20. http://www.agenziacoesione.gov.it/opencms/export/sites/dps/it/documentazione/servizi/materiali_uval/analisi_e_studi/MUVAL_20_Politica_regionale_europea.pdf)
Part Two
Section 4
Texts 4 (B):
B2. F. Vidoli, Metodi di stima dell’efficienza produttiva e di costo. Rassegna delle principali tecniche di stima ed applicazioni in ambito pubblico. Dispense ad uso didattico, febbraio 2015.

Section 5
Texts 5 D:
D1. Commissione Europea (2003) Guida all’analisi costi-benefici dei progetti di investimento, Bruxelles. capp. 1, 2. (http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/guides/cost/guide02_it.pdf).
D3. C. Mazziotta(2011), “La strumentazione quantitativa per l’analisi di impatto della regolazione. Questioni di metodo e applicazioni”, in M. De Benedetto (a cura di), Spiagge in cerca di regole, Collana Arel, Il Mulino, Bologna.
D4. European Commission (2013) Evalsed Sourcebook: Method and Techniques cap.11 Multi-criteria Analysis 129-136; cap. 15 Swot Analysis pp.161-164. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf
D5. C. Mazziotta (2011), Cenni introduttivi sull’analisi multicriteri, Dispense ad uso didattico, Roma.
Integrazione per il programma da 9 CFU, a scelta:
M. Sisti (2006) Gli effetti della legge 27/93 della Regione Toscana sull’imprenditoria giovanile, di pp.199-226 in Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. ((http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)

N.B. Supplementary materials are available at the copy shop: 4Appunti , via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such as television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Course program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
A text of your choice between
- Paolo Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino 2019

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

Students are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course, in order to obtain information regarding course activities and contents.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA

Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course is offered to all students.

It will focus on: “The absurd and history”.

The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of two novels: Albert Camus, “L’Étranger” (1942) and Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête” (2013).

1) Albert Camus, “L’Étranger”, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1942 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 (paperback edition)

3) “Il romanzo francese del Novecento”, Sandra Teroni, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, pp. 62-95 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters XIII, XIV, XV (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Maurice Blanchot, "Le mythe de Sisyphe", "Le roman de l'étranger", in "Faux pas", Paris, Gallimard, 1943 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

6) Jean-Paul Sartre, "Explication de 'L'Étranger'", in "Situations I", Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

7) Edward W. Said, "Introduction", “Camus et l’expérience impériale française”, in Culture et impérialisme, Paris, Fayard, 2000, pp. 248-268 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

8) Frantz Fanon, "Les damnsés de la terre", Paris, La Découverte, 2000 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Camus's and Daoud's novels are available from: Feltrinelli International Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 84/86 00185 Roma.

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of literary texts in order to understand the relationship between American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding,” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work,” in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “Interpreter of Maladies,” in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
Santos, Bienvenido. “Quicker with Arrows”, in Wong, Shawn (ed.) Asian American Literature. A Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York: HarperCollins, 1996, 80-102.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (excerpts).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

German political Theatre against nuclear war
the course aims to deepen, through reading and discussion of famous texts of political theatre and documents on the German nuclear debate, the topic of the atomic bomb, the nuclear war and the relationship between science, ethics and politics in cultural political world in Germany of the sixties.

Deutschsprachiges Theater gegen den Nuklearkrieg
Die Vorlesung führt die Studierenden in wichtige Themenbereiche der deutschen Kultur und Geschichte ein. Sie vermittelt einen Einblick in das Atomdrama der sechziger Jahre und in den Motivkomplex Wissenschaft, Ethik und Politik in der deutschen Debatte um die Kernenergie.

F. Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker, Dyogenes Verlag
H. Kipphardt, In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rororo (Rowohlt Verlag)


B. Brecht: Leben des Galilei

The course aims to analyze the modalities of formation of the European States pluralistic system born in the Modern Age from the disintegration of the imperial and pontifical universalisms of the Middle Ages, following the metamorphoses of three key concepts (universal monarchy, balance of power, supranational bodies) in the context of the political-diplomatic and war events of the Four-Eighteenth Century. Particular attention will be devoted to the transformations of the concept of monarchia universalis in the context of territorial and imperial States between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Spain, Holland and England), to the international practice of balance of power before and after the Thirty Years War, to development of the idea of peace and to the first proposals of supranational organizations for the resolution of conflicts between States.

A. Aubert, L’Europa degli imperi e degli stati. Monarchie universali, equilibrio di potenza e pacifismi dal XV al XVII secolo, Bari, Cacucci, 2008

Introduction: The Balkans and the European Turkey; Geography, people, economy and society; The Great Powers, the Balkans e the national awakening; The end of the Ottoman power and the nation building and state building; The new century, its development and the consequences on the South-east Europe: The Balkan Wars: the end of the Risorgimento phase and the start of a new political vision: nationalism and imperialism; The World War One and its consequences; Peace, war and the Balkans in the New Europe; New Borders, new states and new people also? The interwar years the first massive modernization in the Balkans; A new ruler: the Third Reich; crisis and war; The establishment of a communist rule in the Balkan countries: the birth of a new world? Between Stalin ad Tito; The Seventieth and the eighties: stabilization and stagnation; the fall of the communist regimes and the hard transition.

1) Alberto Basciani, L'illusione della modernità. Il Sud-est dell'Europa tra le due guerre mondiali, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
2) E. Ivetic, I Balcani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020 3) Andrew B. Wachtel, Storia dei Balcani, Lecce, Salento Books, 2016.

for non-attending students:

1) Ben Fowekes, L'Europa orientale dal 1945 al 1970, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 2) Bulent Gokay, L'Europa orientale dal 1970 a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 .

Introduction: from Kevian Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of an European power; The long Russian Nineteenth century from Napoleonic wars to Alexander II's reforms; Nicholas II, the last tzar and his empire: the contradiction of an impetuous and disorderly development; the World War One and the end of a world; the Russian revolutions; The rise of Lenin and the Bolshevik; The Bolshevik party his origins ad his success; The Russian civil wars and the origin of the Soviet state; The NEP; The rise of Stalin: Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of a new Soviet Russia; The Great Terror; the Comintern the foreign communist parties and the PCUS hegemony; The "double" Soviet foreign policy and the origin of the Second World War; The War; After the war: the birth of a super-power; Soviet Russia, western powers and the Cold War; Nikita Khrushchev and a very turning point in the soviet history: the XX Congress, The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; the impossible reform attempt: Gorbachev between Perestrojka and Glasnost'; the fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the shady era; a new strong man? Vladimir Putin and the new Russia.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

2) G. P. Caselli, La Russia nuova. Economia e Storia da Gorbacev a Putin, Milano - Udine, Mimesis


for non-attending students:

Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi. Also the english version

"From the myth of Europe to the myth of European Union"

Targets

Finding answers to 3 “existential” questions about Europe: 1) what is it ?; 2) where does it come from ?; 3) where does it go?, Since Europe was born from a myth, it arises as a space of civilization, it consolidates in the European Union but, even before being fully realized in a federal body, under the pressure of anti-European and Eurosceptics forces and feelings, it runs the risk of becoming an (un)attenable myth.

Contents

The ideas and theories that have contributed to creating a European identity and to substantiating its ideal and historical models.
Europe is born from a myth: the rape of Europe by Zeus in the form of a bull that from the East leads it to Greece, to Crete, where the first Occidental civilization flourishes, the Mycenaean one.
Identified initially in Greece as opposed to the “barbarian” Persians, Europe over time assumes ideal and historical forms with different traits (the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Respublica christiana, the République des lettres, but also the Dante monarchy, etc.), opposing each time to the “barbarism” on duty, conquering a cultural, scientific-technological, political and civil primacy, and finally becoming a “torch of civilization” in the non-European world, a world to be civilized, i.e. conquered. But Eurocentrism, colonialism, imperialism on the one hand, nationalism, racism, totalitarianism on the other precipitate “civil” Europe, endemically torn by wars and religious and ideological conflicts, in the barbarism of world wars and in the moral defeat of the Holocaust. Europe is reborn after WWII as a European Union, in the name of peace, democracy and the guarantee of individual rights. But after the failed attempts to create a federation on the model of the United States, faced with economic and migratory crises that feed the centrifugal forces of Europexit, the European Union risks becoming an (un)attainable myth.

Course structure

The Course is divided into two parts: a general part and a monographic part

1) General part: The historical reconstruction of the idea of Europe, its genius and its identity as a space of civilization, which were formed and developed along a historical path that begins in ancient Greece and reaches up to the Second post-war period, when, under the pressure of Altiero Spinelli and the other 6 Founding Fathers (K. Adenauer, J. Bech, A. De Gasperi, J. Monnet, R. Schuman, P.-H. Spaak), they materialize politically and institutionally in the European Union under the banner of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which represents the statute of its founding principles and values. So that the third question – where is Europe going? – which needs an adequate response to the Europexit can benefit from the answer of the first two questions.

2) Monographic part: analysis of “classical” texts on the creation of a united Europe
1. For Perpetual Peace (1795) by Immanuel Kant (confederative project)
2. The Manifesto of Ventotene (1943) by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi (federative project)
3. The War and European Unity (1947) by Luigi Einaudi (federative project)
4. The Future of European Civilization (1955) by Albert Camus (federative project)

General texts:

1. Corrado Malandrino, Stefano Quirico, L'idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive, Carocci 2020
2. Giovanni Reale, Radici culturali e spirituali dell’Europa, Cortina, 2003 (pp. 160)
Monographic texts NB: 2 first texts are complementary

1. Immanuel Kant, For the Perpetual Peace (1795), any edition (pp. 30 ca)
2. Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi, The Ventotene Manifesto (1943) (pp. 30 ca) [online]
3. Luigi Einaudi, Per l'unità politica europea (1918-48) (pp. 30 ca); no english translation [http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/4519/1/Per_l%27unit_politica_europea.pdf]
4. Albert Camus, Il futuro della civiltà europea (1955), Castelvecchi 2012 (pp. 35)
5. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000) [online]

N.B. All the texts, except the Kantian one which requires greater effort, are easy to read and easy to understand.

The program also includes the vision of 5 feature films, each dedicated to a specific “barbarism” that Europe has overcome during the difficult and contrasted construction of its civilization. The vision will be a reason for critical debate on the theme of the feature film.

1. Agorà (Alejandro Amenábar, 2009): religious funfamentalism
2. Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman, 2006): religious and ideological fundamentalism
3. Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997): slavery
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Redford, 1984): totalitarianism
5. Germania anno zero (R. Rossellini, 1948): war, endemic evil

The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.

The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.

Texbooks and materials


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

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Gli studenti non frequentanti dovranno studiare i seguenti testi per l'esame orale:


1) Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, 2017


2) Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina Contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019


3) Laura Fotia (a cura di), Le Politiche dell'odio nel Novecento americano, Nova Delphi Academia (solo i saggi relativi all'America Latina, da concordare con la docente)



Inoltre, un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura

Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

Loris Zanatta, La nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell'Argentina di Bergoglio, Laterza

The course is divided into two parts. The first provides a theorical framework of the transition process and analyzes the conceptual debate about democratic foundation and the challenges of democratic consolidation. The second part moves from the theory to practice and explores the specific democratization trajectories in Southern and Eastern Europe during the Second and the Third Wave emphasizing the legacies of the former non democratic regimes.

P. Grilli di Cortona, Come gli stati diventano democratici, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
P. Grilli di Cortona e O. Lanza (a cura di), Tra vecchio e nuovo regime. Il peso del passato nella costruzione della democrazia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2011.

The locution "human rights" denotes a field of action as well as a broad, inter-disciplinary, field of studies. In the first perspective, human rights are generally meant to express a set of minimum standards of conduct a State ought to meet in the treatment of individuals over whom it exercises its jurisdiction. Since the end of World War II international charters, conventions, covenants and declarations have been promulgated stating what basic rights individuals have. Notable efforts have been made to enforce adherence to those rights resulting in the creation of a system of multi-level jurisdiction through a number of international courts. Even though many see human rights as a Western, culturally biased, construction based upon an abstract and atomistic conception of the individual, the notion that for a State to promote and perform cruel and degrading acts is unjust, albeit for different reasons, has become increasingly popular globally. In the second perspective, descriptively human rights are said to be powers or properties belonging to all human beings in virtue of being human. Normatively that all human beings must be able to enjoy certain fundamental rights is a matter of global justice. Today not only theories of human rights, concerned with guiding action, but also theories about human rights, concerned with foundational questions, compete with one another. The course concentreates on the theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth. There is general agreement about the fact that liberal-democratic societies are based on normative principles, which require legal provisions to ensure that governments do not violate anyone’s fundamental rights. Yet, partially on account of the complexity of the ongoing overlapping global processes of integration, deregulation, reform, and partially on account of the influence of anti-foundational critique (deconstruction; postmodernism; relativism), these widely accepted principles seem to have lost much of their original explanatory and prescriptive force. Contrary to those claiming that this problem consists of a mere temporal delay between philosophical investigation and practical application Honneth argues that more is needed than time, hope and persistence to transform theoretically developed principles of freedom and justice into guidelines for political action. In his view the normative principles at the heart of the human rights discourse are formulated in a manner that prevents us from deriving guidelines for political action. In particular, the course will examine the model of normative reconstruction that Honneth developed in neo-Hegelian fashion for the purpose of situating his own theory of justice as recognition in the analysis of the variety of historically determined institutional instances and practices that embody existentially significant claims to realization.

CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -

PART I – Historical background, methodological approaches, perspectives and major issues

- Introduction and course description; theory of human rights and its historical background; ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of discourse. Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of the anti-foundational critique
- Identity, authenticity, recognition and otherness

PART II – The theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth

- Situating Honneth; Hegelian roots; the fabric of justice
- The struggle for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice and the market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- The ‘We’ of democratic will-formation; Organized self-realization: paradoxes of individualization
- The work of negativity; the ‘I’ in ‘We’: recognition as driving force of group formation; recognition and ideology

This course is taught in English.

• Honneth, A., Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2011), trans. J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)
• Maiolo, F., Honneth’s Theory of Recognition (forthcoming publication: Apeiron Editori)

1.What is the economic analysis of the law
2.The economic origins of the state
3. Market failures and public functions. -1. Public goods and merit goods
4. Market failures and public functions. 2. The regulation of market power and externalities
5.The causes of state bankruptcy and remedies.
6. Ultra-state cooperation and intra-state competition.
7. Delegation of functions to the administration
8. The multiple clients of the public administration
9.The logic of bureaucratic behavior
10. The industrial organization of the bureaucratic administration
11. The public entrepreneurial system and outsourcing
12. Theory and practice of conferring functions to independent authorities.
13. The tools of action of the public administration. - 1. Administrative power and reduction of transaction costs.
14. Public administration tools of action. - 2. Consensual administration and collective well-being.
15.The regulation of administrative action and its paradoxes
16. Functions and techniques of the disciplines of the administrative procedure
17. Public contracts and contractor selection procedures
18. The types of public administration responsibilities
19. Judicial supervision and the administrative process.

G. Napolitano – M. Abrescia, Analisi economica del diritto pubblico, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009.


G. Napolitano, Diritto amministrativo e processo economico, in Dir. amm., 4, 2014.
M. D’Alberti, Diritto pubblico dei mercati e analisi economica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
M. Cafagno, La responsabilità della amministrazione pubblica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
S. Rose-Ackerman, Public Choice, Public Law and Public Policy, Keynote address, First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society, Amsterdam, March 31, 2007, Yale University.
S. Rose-Ackerman, The Economic Analysis of Public Law, European Journal of Law and Economics, 1:53--70 (1994).

The course aims to provide useful tools to understand the phenomenon of deviance, crime and punishment in Western societies through the most important theories of international and Italian legal-criminal sociology, as well as the relationship between law and Gender studies.
In the first module, we will work on the Liberal School of Criminal law, on the ideology of social defence, on psychoanalytic theories of crime, on deviance and regulatory voids, on the "labelling approach", on the sociology of conflicts in reference to the criminal phenomena, the political corruption and the crime of the "white collars", on the prison and the social marginality, on the prospect of the school of Critical criminology.
The second module will offer more specific tools, i.e. the analysis of the symbolic, cultural and legal function of the contribution of feminist studies in relation to law, deviance and power. In particular, the relationship between the Thought of Sexual Difference and the doctrine of Juridical Experience will be investigated, both at a theoretical level and in the practices carried out in trials, as well as the concept of “Juridical Feminism” applied to the main themes of the present time: equality/difference; citizenship/borders; criminology/delinquency/security; justice/law/rights; gender/sexuality/reproduction; victim/victimology/vulnerability.

Testi di riferimento obbligatori
● A. Baratta, (a cura di Anna Simone), Criminologia critica e critica del diritto penale. Introduzione alla Sociologia giuridico-penale, Mimesis, 2019.
● A. Simone, La devianza femminile nell’ordine discorsivo criminologico e nella sociologia giuridico-penale. Un approccio critico, in C. Rinaldi, P. Saitta (a cura di), Criminologie critiche contemporanee, Giuffrè, Milano 2018.
● A. Simone, I. Boiano, A. Condello, Femminismo Giuridico. Teorie e problemi, Mondadori Università, Milano 2019.
Special Lecture Covid-19:
● M. Bracconi, La Mutazione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2020.

Testi di riferimento obbligatori
● A. Baratta, (a cura di Anna Simone), Criminologia critica e critica del diritto penale. Introduzione alla Sociologia giuridico-penale, Mimesis, 2019.
● A. Simone, La devianza femminile nell’ordine discorsivo criminologico e nella sociologia giuridico-penale. Un approccio critico, in C. Rinaldi, P. Saitta (a cura di), Criminologie critiche contemporanee, Giuffrè, Milano 2018.
● A. Simone, I. Boiano, A. Condello, Femminismo Giuridico. Teorie e problemi, Mondadori Università, Milano 2019.
Special Lecture Covid-19:
● M. Bracconi, La Mutazione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2020

Different approaches to the subject "fundamental rights".
Choices characterizing the Italian Constitution.
Is the number of constitutional rights limited ?
Statutory reservation of power and reserve of jurisdiction.
Right to liberty of person.
Right to respect of home.
Right to respect of correspondence.
Freedom of movement.
Freedom of expression.
Freedom of assembly.
Freedom of association.
Freedom to conduct a business and right to property.
Social rights as fundamental rights : right to work, right to health care, right to education.

P. Caretti, G. Tarli Barbieri, I diritti fondamentali, Giappichelli, Torino, IV edizione, 2017.

PART 1: ECONOMY OF THE MONETARY UNION

Costs of a common currency
The theory of Optimal Currency Areas (AVO) and its criticisms
Benefits of a common currency
Costs and benefits compared
The fragility of incomplete monetary unions
How to complete a monetary union
The transition to a monetary union
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Monetary policy in the Eurozone
Budgetary policies in monetary unions
The euro and the financial markets

PART 2: INSIGHTS

De Grauwe P., Economia dell’unione monetaria, il Mulino, 2019

A book chosen from the following list:
• Alesina A., Favero C., Giavazzi F., Austerità, Rizzoli, 2019
• Acocella N., L’unione economica e monetaria europea, Carocci, 2019
• Bini Smaghi L., Morire di austerità, il Mulino, 2013
• Bini Smaghi L., 33 false verità sull’Europa, il Mulino, 2014
• Cesaratto S., Chi non rispetta le regole?, Imprimatur, 2018
• De Romanis V., L’austerità fa crescere, Marsilio, 2017
• Piga G., L’interregno, Hoepli, 2020
• Pittaluga G.B., Cama G., Banche centrali e democrazia, Hoepli, 2004
• Stagnaro C. (a cura di), Cosa succede se usciamo dall’euro?, IBL Libri, 2018

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

This course is taught in English.

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. Two of the following:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may replace one of the abovementioned books with a book of their own choice, to be agreed with the Professor.

IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

a. W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
b. Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology. Gender as a category of historical analysis.

Week 2
Ancient Greece: the Greek tradition of misogyny. Plato and Aristotle. The Aristotelian legacy. Queens philosophers in Plato’s Republic.

Week 3
Women in medieval thought.
The Church Fathers: St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature

Week 4
Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli. Defending masculinity against Fortuna.

Week 5
Natural rights against natural authority
Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model
John Locke against patriarchy. The sexual contract.

Week 6
The State of nature and reconstructing a masculinized republic: Rousseau.
Rousseau and the domestication of women.

Week 7
Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft
Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill

Week 8
Constructing liberal feminism in the US: The 19th century women’s rights movement. The social roots of the American women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Week 9
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy. Virginia Woolf e Simone de Beauvoir. Equality and difference.

Week 10

The debate on multiculturalism. In class debate.


REQUIRED READINGS:

The required readings can be found on Moodle, in our library or on the University Discovery web page.

- Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075

- Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987

- Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157

- Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992,
- Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993

- Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical
Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2

- Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7

- Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213

- Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6

- Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4

- Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7

- Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

- Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85

- John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9

- Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281

- From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322

- Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412

- Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421

- Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29

- Kathryn Kish Sklar, Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870, Bedford, 2000

- Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652

- Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705

- Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, edited by Susan Moller Okin, Princeton University Press, 1999



RECOMMENDED READINGS:
- Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, Basic Books, 1989

This course is taught in English.

Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology.

- Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075
- Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987
- Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157



Week 2
Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle.

- Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992,
- Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought
- Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought
- Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought



Week 3
Women in medieval thought.
The Church Fathers: St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature

- Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993
- Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical
Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2




Week 4
Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli


- Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7
- Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213
- Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6


Week 5
Natural rights against natural authority
Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model
John Locke against patriarchy

- Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4
- Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6

Week 6
The State of Nature and Reconstructing a Masculinized Republic: Rousseau

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7
- Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
- Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002


Week 7
Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft
Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill

- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85
- John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238
- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9







Week 8
Constructing Liberal Feminism in the US: The 19th Century Women’s Rights Movement


- Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281
- From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322
- Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412
- Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421
- Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29

Week 9
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy.

- Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652
- Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705

This course explores the contemporary elaboration of political anthropology (first part). Analyze the dissemination of human rights as discourse (global and local) and practice (2nd part). It examines the opposition between culture and rights along with current theoretical efforts to negotiate an intermediate space (third part) focusing in particular on gender-based violence (female genital modifications, rape, etc.). Finally, the course examines the moral economy concept and the approaches to transnational, deterritorialized, and multi-sited ethnography as well as the gaps between human rights as global law and implementation in the local context. Some cooperation projects related to gender-based violencep will be analyzed in class.

1. Didier Fassin, 2013,Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present. University of California Press. Berkeley (introduction only)
2. Michela Fusaschi, 2007, I segni sul corpo. Per un’antropologia delle modificazioni dei genitali femminili, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
3. Michela Fusaschi, 2011, Quando il corpo è delle Altre. Retoriche della pietà e umanitarismo spettacolo, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

International economics theories will be analyzed in a historical sequence, from the 18th century to the present day.

F. Masini, Storia e teorie delle relazioni economiche internazionali, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2017.
F. Masini, SMEmorie della Lira. Gli economisti Italiani e l’adesione al Sistema Monetario Europeo, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2004, second edition 2014.
(For all those who take the exam in English, there is a collection of papers and book chapters which can be borrowed from the Library of the Faculty.)

Part One
Section 1
The key concepts of public policy evaluation. The relationships between input, output and outcome. The indicators and statistical techniques at the various stages of evaluation: ex-ante, on-going and ex-post.
Section 2
Statistical references for the analysis of the evaluation of effects.
Evaluation of the effects of investment aid policies: experimental and non-experimental methods. the counterfactual approach and models used in the non-experimental methods. Case studies and examples.
Section 3
The European Union's regional policies and Structural Funds. The evaluation of structural policies.

Part Two

Section 4
The concepts of efficiency, productivity, economy, effectiveness, quality and sustainability. A brief overview of production or cost functions in the PA and DEA. Case studies and examples.
Section 5
The ex-ante evaluation of public investment projects. Feasibility studies. Swot Analysis. Cost-benefit analysis. Multicriteria analysis. Example methods and cases.
Regulatory impact assessment in Italy: technical instrumentation and experience gained.

Learning Material
Part One
Section 1
Texts 1 (A):

A1. A. Martini, M. Sisti, "A ciascuno il suo. Cinque modi di intendere la valutazione in ambito pubblico", Informaires, n.33, Dicembre 2007, pp. 1-9.
https://dokodoc.com/queue/a-ciascuno-il-suo-cinque-modi-di-intendere-la-valutazione-in.html

A3. M. De Castris, Le fonti statistiche per l’analisi e la valutazione delle politiche, Dispense didattiche, Roma, 2015.
A5. European Commission (2013) EVALSED GUIDE: The resource for the evaluation of Socio-Economic Development. cap. 4 Choosing methods and techniques par. Acquiring and using data in evaluation; Creating Indicators and indicator systems pp. 81-88. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf

Section 2
Texts 2 E

E1. A. Martini, M. Sisti (2009), Valutare il successo delle politiche pubbliche, Il Mulino, capp. VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII.
Lettura integrativa:
E2. Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. Parte prima. (http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)
Un manuale di statistica per rivedere concetti di base modello di regressione.
Per esempio: Borra Di Ciaccio “Statistica: Metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali”, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Gary Koop “Logica statistica dei dati economici”, Utet, 2001.

Section 3
Texts 3 C:
C1 V. Pupo (2003) La valutazione delle politiche strutturali, Rubbettino.cap.3 (pp. 53-78).
C2. F. Busillo, T. Muccigrosso, G. Pellegrini, O. Tarola, F. Terribile (2010) L’impatto della politica regionale sulla crescita delle regioni europee: un approccio basato sul regression discontinuity design. Collana UVAL-DPS, Analisi e studi, N.20. http://www.agenziacoesione.gov.it/opencms/export/sites/dps/it/documentazione/servizi/materiali_uval/analisi_e_studi/MUVAL_20_Politica_regionale_europea.pdf)
Part Two
Section 4
Texts 4 (B):
B2. F. Vidoli, Metodi di stima dell’efficienza produttiva e di costo. Rassegna delle principali tecniche di stima ed applicazioni in ambito pubblico. Dispense ad uso didattico, febbraio 2015.

Section 5
Texts 5 D:
D1. Commissione Europea (2003) Guida all’analisi costi-benefici dei progetti di investimento, Bruxelles. capp. 1, 2. (http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/guides/cost/guide02_it.pdf).
D3. C. Mazziotta(2011), “La strumentazione quantitativa per l’analisi di impatto della regolazione. Questioni di metodo e applicazioni”, in M. De Benedetto (a cura di), Spiagge in cerca di regole, Collana Arel, Il Mulino, Bologna.
D4. European Commission (2013) Evalsed Sourcebook: Method and Techniques cap.11 Multi-criteria Analysis 129-136; cap. 15 Swot Analysis pp.161-164. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf
D5. C. Mazziotta (2011), Cenni introduttivi sull’analisi multicriteri, Dispense ad uso didattico, Roma.
Integrazione per il programma da 9 CFU, a scelta:
M. Sisti (2006) Gli effetti della legge 27/93 della Regione Toscana sull’imprenditoria giovanile, di pp.199-226 in Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. ((http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)

N.B. Supplementary materials are available at the copy shop: 4Appunti , via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

DESCRIPTION:

The Course is developed into two main sections, debating on the theoretical concept of the right to development as a human right and analyzing the international development cooperation within the United Nations system as well as the international Organizations – IOs - working in the economic, financial and trade fields. Also the regional and national systems (e.g. the European Union and the Italian framework) and the non institutional actors (e.g. NGOs and private business companies) will be investigated.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:

Students will be able to:

• To comprehensively examine the most significant views regarding the legal framework of the international development law in the past and current international debate as well as in the international practice, in particular concerning IOs.

• To be updated on lessons learned and good practices in terms of international development cooperation frameworks and related challenges, in particular in relation to the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda scenario.

• To have an in depth understanding of the crucial role played by institutional and non institutional actors in the international development law framework.

• To get focused on contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues through the awareness of the pivotal role, played particularly by BRICs and Developing Countries, thanks to the study of ad hoc policy documents.

• The students will develop an inquiring thinking, thanks to a variety of learning activities in class, such as essay questions, oral presentations, writing assignments, reports, case studies, guest speakers, so to have a real and tangible understanding of how international development cooperation theories at large are put into practice by States, International Organizations (IOs), non institutional actors, such as NGO’s, and other key players.

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the Course; the UN framework: past vs. future international development cooperation
Topic: Preliminary basics of the International development cooperation
Conceptual framework of the International development cooperation
Operational mechanisms and procedures
The right to development and international cooperation

Topic: Key-elements of the right to development
Economic, sustainable and social factors at the core of the human development concept: theoretical and practical approach
International actors: donors and partners; IOs; the role of the United Nations within the international cooperative framework
From MDGs to SDGs
Approaching to the 2015 time limit and beyond: the new era of the post-2015/2030 Development Agenda

PART II – The financial/trade development cooperation
Topic: The International financial and trade development cooperation
The role and action of the World Bank Group and related development cooperation mechanisms and models
The financial cooperation of the International Monetary Fund

Topic: Trade Law and development cooperation principles
The basics of WTO: principles and rules to create and perform International development cooperation practices
Comprehensive overview about international financial and trade development cooperation actors and models

PART III – The regional dimension, the non-institutional approach of the international development cooperation
Topic: The regional dimension of the development cooperation
Historical, legal and practical features of the development partnership between EEC/EU and the African and Mediterranean Countries
The European development model cycle: analysis and implementation in a comparative perspective

Topic: The non institutional actors of the international development cooperation
NGOs: private profile, global action
The business and the International development cooperation: rethinking the way for best actions
Corporate Social Responsibility and human rights protection in the view of development cooperation

PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

This course in taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) UNDP, Human Development Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019 (free choice of one UNDP Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport) / the 2020 Edition will be released in the second half of 2020

2) Books:
2010, Rumu Sarkar, International Development Law. Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance, Oxford University Press, chapters 2 and 4, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398281.001.0001/acprof-9780195398281

3) Articles listed by Journal/Review (one choice) free access to Journals/Reviews on www. sba.uniroma3.it, please refer to the Syllabus.

Strategic Studies

Instructor: Niccolò Petrelli
C.F.U. 8

Presentation and Course Aims
What is national strategy? What is the link between foreign policy objectives and defense choices? How is military power developed? What is the connection between technological innovation, industry and national defense? The course aims to introduce the topics of strategy, defense policy and development of military power focusing in particular on the Italian case. The aim of the course is therefore to lead students to familiarize with the concept of national strategy and with the actors and dynamics of defense policy, to inform them about some of the fundamental issues concerning the development of the Armed Forces, and to present a framework reference theorist for the analysis of national defense policies.
At the end of the course students will be in possession of:

1. Basic knowledge of strategic theory, Italian defense and military policies within the framework of NATO and the EU.
2. Analytical tools necessary for an informed discussion of the themes of strategy and defense in the context of the post-Cold War international political system.

The course starts with an analysis of the concept of strategy in its various forms, providing a general overview of strategic theory. Subsequently, it introduces a series of analytical tools aimed at understanding the dynamics of formation of the strategy at the national level, the problems linked to it and the actors involved. Particular attention will be devoted to the Italian case through the study of the mechanisms and methods of development of the national security strategy (SSN), of the national security architecture and of the defense policy on the basis of primary sources, first of all the White Book of Defense of 2015.
In the second part the course moves to analyze military affairs. The main theories developed in the defense field from the mid-90s and the main enabling technologies are examined in detail. This is followed by an analysis of the main challenges related to the transformation, development and modernization of the armed forces. It focuses on the Italian armed forces in the Euro-Atlantic framework, with particular reference to the potential and risks posed by the application of ideas related to the theories of the Revolution in Military Affairs, the Network-Centric Warfare. Last but not least the course tackles the topic of the industrial aspects of Italian defense policy.
The course closes with an analysis of the future trajectory of EU defense policies based on analysis of technological-industrial-military trends of the last twenty years.

Teaching Approach and Evaluation Criteria
The course is divided into lectures. Their format however, is similar to that of a seminar , ie it involves continuous interaction between teacher and students. Before each class, students are required to take the readings assigned by the teacher in order to conduct an informed discussion on the topics covered in the classroom. The course teaching material is half in Italian and half in English, whose knowledge is therefore essential.

Assessment:
25% participatione to class discussions
25% presentations
50% final exam

Week 1 – Basic Concepts

1. Introduction: the Study of Strategy

2. The Concept of Strategy

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), 17-32.*

3. Strategy: A Multifaceted and Multilevel Concept

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 33-47.
Peter Layton, ‘The Idea of Grand Strategy’, RUSI Journal 157/4 (August 2012), 56-61.

Week 2 – From Strategy to “Grand Strategy”

4. Strategys Development

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 58-74

5. Strategy's execution

Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, 74-91.

6. How Strategy Works

Richard K. Betts, ‘The Trouble with Strategy: Bridging Policy and Operations’, Joint Force Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 2001–02), 23-30.

Week 3 – Strategy and National Security in Italy: Architecture, Organization and Process

7. How Strategy works: Planning

P. H. Liotta and Richmond M. Lloyd, ‘From Here to There: The Strategy and Force Planning Framework’, Naval War College Review, 58/2 (Spring 2005).

8. Strategy and National Defense: The Italian case

Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 7-23.

9. Organization (I): The Supreme Defense Council

Riccardo Bellandi, Il Consiglio Supremo di Difesa (Bologna: Dipartimento di Diritto Pubblico, 2012), 279-327.

Week 4 – Strategy and National Security in Italy: Architecture, Organization and Process (II)

10. Organization (II): Intelligence, Strategy and National Security

Alfonso Montagnese & Claudio Neri, L’evoluzione della sicurezza nazionale italiana (Roma: Sistema per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza della Repubblica, 2016), 1-9, 10, 16-17.

11. National Strategy and Defense in Italy

Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 41-54.

12. From National Security to National Defense

Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 1 e 2.

Week 5 –Technology and Defense Transformation

13. National Defense: Implications for the Armed Forces

Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 3 e 4.

14. The Origins of the RMA-IT

Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War (Washington DC: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, 2004), 1-24

15. RMA's Technologies

Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War, 24-42.

Week 6 – The Next RMA? (I)

16. The Future of the It-RMA
Michael G. Vickers & Robert C. Martinage, The Revolution in War, 42-68

17. The Robotics Era

Robert O. Work and Shawn Brimley, 20YY Preparing for War in the Robotic Age (Washington DC: CNAS, 2014).

18. Artificial Intelligence

Michael C. Horowitz, Gregory C. Allen, Edoardo Saravalle, Anthony Cho, Kara Frederick, and Paul Scharre, Artificial Intelligence and International Security (Washington DC: CNAS, 2018).

Week 7 – The Nexy RMA? (II)

19. The Cyber Revolution

Joseph S. Nye, Cyber Power (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School).

Jacquelyn Schneider, Digitally-Enabled Warfare: The Capability-Vulnerability Paradox (Washington DC: CNAS, 2016).

20. Autonomous Weapons Systems

Paul Scharre and Michael C. Horowitz, An Introduction to Autonomy in Weapons Systems (Washington DC: CNAS, 2015).

21. FORZA NEC: General Features

‘Le nuove esigenze militari e la Network Centric Warfare (NCW)’ in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 31-42.

Tommaso de Zan, ‘L’Italia e il programma Forza NEC’, in Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones e Alessandro R. Ungaro, Innovazione Tecnologica e Difesa: Forza NEC Nel Quadro Euro-Atlantico (Roma: IAI, 2015), 119-134.

Week 8 – The Transformation of the Italian Armed Forces: FORZA NEC

22. The Transformation of the Italian Army

‘Il Caso Italiano’, in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 58-76.

23. The Transformation of the Italian Air Force

AAVV, Il ruolo dei velivoli da combattimento italiani nelle missioni internazionali: trend e necessità (Roma: IAI, 2014), 61-65, 83-110

24. The Transformation of the Italian Navy

AAVV, La Sicurezza nel Mediterraneo e l'Italia (Roma: IAI, 2014), 140-147.

Luca Peruzzi, “Italy seeks naval power to match strategic need”, Janes Defense International (2017).

Week 9 – Technology, Industry and Defense in Italy

25. Research, Technological Innovation and Defense in Italy

Luisa Riccardi, ‘Difesa, ricerca ed innovazione tecnologica’, Tecnica, Professione & Società (2016).

26. The Italian Defense Industry (I)

Claudio Catalano, La politica industriale nel settore della Difesa (Roma: CeMiSS, 2016), pp. 20-26

27. The Italian Defense Industry (II)

Claudio Catalano, La politica industriale nel settore della Difesa (Roma: CeMiSS, 2016), pp. 72-101.

Week 10 – The European and Transatlantic Dimension of National Defense

28. The EU Level: l’Italia e la European Defense Agency (EDA)

Antonio Calcara, ‘Italy’s defence policy in the European context: the case of the European Defence Agency’, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9/3 (2017), 277-301.

29. The NATO Dimension

Silvano Frigerio, ‘Lo Strumento Militare Nazionale nell’ottica delle Iniziative NATO Smart Defence e EU Pooling e Sharing’, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università del Sacro Cuore vol.7 (2014).

30. Conclusions

Week 11
Students' Presentations

Week 12
Students' Presentations (II)


Students will have to submit group presentations on the topic “The US, the Third Offset Strategy e the Transtlantic Gap: Which Future for EU Defense?”.
The instructor will provide students with teaching material, the groups can autonomously draw on sources ONLY from these two internet sites:
https://eda.europa.eu/info-hub/publications
https://www.rand.org/randeurope/publications.html
Presentations will be discussed in class during the last two weeks of the course.

Students not atteding classes will have to submit 3 papers during the course. Comprised between 1000-1500 words, they will have to be submitted directly to the instructor according to this timetable:

21 October: weeks 1, 2, 3, 4.
23 November: weeks 5, 6, 7.
16 December: weeks 8, 9, 10.

By December 16, students not attending the course will have to submit a 3000/3500 words paper on the policy presentations' topic.

Teaching material will be provided directly by the instructor

The course is offered to all students.

It will focus on: “The absurd and history”.

The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of two novels: Albert Camus, “L’Étranger” (1942) and Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête” (2013).

1) Albert Camus, “L’Étranger”, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1942 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 (paperback edition)

3) “Il romanzo francese del Novecento”, Sandra Teroni, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, pp. 62-95 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters XIII, XIV, XV (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Maurice Blanchot, "Le mythe de Sisyphe", "Le roman de l'étranger", in "Faux pas", Paris, Gallimard, 1943 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

6) Jean-Paul Sartre, "Explication de 'L'Étranger'", in "Situations I", Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

7) Edward W. Said, "Introduction", “Camus et l’expérience impériale française”, in Culture et impérialisme, Paris, Fayard, 2000, pp. 248-268 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

8) Frantz Fanon, "Les damnsés de la terre", Paris, La Découverte, 2000 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Camus's and Daoud's novels are available from: Feltrinelli International Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 84/86 00185 Roma.

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of literary texts in order to understand the relationship between American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding,” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work,” in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “Interpreter of Maladies,” in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
Santos, Bienvenido. “Quicker with Arrows”, in Wong, Shawn (ed.) Asian American Literature. A Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York: HarperCollins, 1996, 80-102.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (excerpts).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

German political Theatre against nuclear war
the course aims to deepen, through reading and discussion of famous texts of political theatre and documents on the German nuclear debate, the topic of the atomic bomb, the nuclear war and the relationship between science, ethics and politics in cultural political world in Germany of the sixties.

Deutschsprachiges Theater gegen den Nuklearkrieg
Die Vorlesung führt die Studierenden in wichtige Themenbereiche der deutschen Kultur und Geschichte ein. Sie vermittelt einen Einblick in das Atomdrama der sechziger Jahre und in den Motivkomplex Wissenschaft, Ethik und Politik in der deutschen Debatte um die Kernenergie.

F. Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker, Dyogenes Verlag
H. Kipphardt, In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rororo (Rowohlt Verlag)


B. Brecht: Leben des Galilei

The course is articulated in two parts.The topic issue is focused on the nature and the classification of war referring to the major international theories (Clausewitz; Schmitt; Aron). The course analyzes the evolution of war in terms of power and legal limits to the use of violence from Westphalia to the present day. In the second part the course discusses the Samuel Huntington theory of «The Clash of Civilization» to develop a new theoretical framework understanding the world politics after the cold war.

A. Colombo, La guerra ineguale. Pace e violenza nel tramonto della società internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2006.
S.P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, New York 1996.

The locution "human rights" denotes a field of action as well as a broad, inter-disciplinary, field of studies. In the first perspective, human rights are generally meant to express a set of minimum standards of conduct a State ought to meet in the treatment of individuals over whom it exercises its jurisdiction. Since the end of World War II international charters, conventions, covenants and declarations have been promulgated stating what basic rights individuals have. Notable efforts have been made to enforce adherence to those rights resulting in the creation of a system of multi-level jurisdiction through a number of international courts. Even though many see human rights as a Western, culturally biased, construction based upon an abstract and atomistic conception of the individual, the notion that for a State to promote and perform cruel and degrading acts is unjust, albeit for different reasons, has become increasingly popular globally. In the second perspective, descriptively human rights are said to be powers or properties belonging to all human beings in virtue of being human. Normatively that all human beings must be able to enjoy certain fundamental rights is a matter of global justice. Today not only theories of human rights, concerned with guiding action, but also theories about human rights, concerned with foundational questions, compete with one another. The course concentreates on the theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth. There is general agreement about the fact that liberal-democratic societies are based on normative principles, which require legal provisions to ensure that governments do not violate anyone’s fundamental rights. Yet, partially on account of the complexity of the ongoing overlapping global processes of integration, deregulation, reform, and partially on account of the influence of anti-foundational critique (deconstruction; postmodernism; relativism), these widely accepted principles seem to have lost much of their original explanatory and prescriptive force. Contrary to those claiming that this problem consists of a mere temporal delay between philosophical investigation and practical application Honneth argues that more is needed than time, hope and persistence to transform theoretically developed principles of freedom and justice into guidelines for political action. In his view the normative principles at the heart of the human rights discourse are formulated in a manner that prevents us from deriving guidelines for political action. In particular, the course will examine the model of normative reconstruction that Honneth developed in neo-Hegelian fashion for the purpose of situating his own theory of justice as recognition in the analysis of the variety of historically determined institutional instances and practices that embody existentially significant claims to realization.

CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -

PART I – Historical background, methodological approaches, perspectives and major issues

- Introduction and course description; theory of human rights and its historical background; ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of discourse. Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of the anti-foundational critique
- Identity, authenticity, recognition and otherness

PART II – The theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth

- Situating Honneth; Hegelian roots; the fabric of justice
- The struggle for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice and the market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- The ‘We’ of democratic will-formation; Organized self-realization: paradoxes of individualization
- The work of negativity; the ‘I’ in ‘We’: recognition as driving force of group formation; recognition and ideology

This course is taught in English.

• Honneth, A., Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2011), trans. J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)
• Maiolo, F., Honneth’s Theory of Recognition (forthcoming publication: Apeiron Editori)

The detailed program is as follows:
1. Introduction of the course and macroeconomics in the short run: chapters from 1 to 6 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
2. Macroeconomics in the medium run: chapters 7-8-9 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
3. Macroeconomics in the long run: chapters from 10 to 13 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
4. The open economy: chapters from 17 to 20 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
5. Back to policy: chapters 22-23 and 24 of the textbook, appendices are excluded.

TEXTBOOK: OLIVIER BLANCHARD, ALESSIA AMIGHINI, FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea, Nuova Edizione 2020, Il Mulino, collana Strumenti

English Textbook: OLIVIER BLANCHARD, ALESSIA AMIGHINI, FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Macroeconomics. A European Perspective, 3rd Edition 2016, Pearson

Macroeconomics: A European Perspective, 3rd Edition, Olivier Blanchard, Francesco Giavazzi, Alessia Amighini, Pearson University Press, 2020

PART 1: ECONOMY OF THE MONETARY UNION

Costs of a common currency
The theory of Optimal Currency Areas (AVO) and its criticisms
Benefits of a common currency
Costs and benefits compared
The fragility of incomplete monetary unions
How to complete a monetary union
The transition to a monetary union
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Monetary policy in the Eurozone
Budgetary policies in monetary unions
The euro and the financial markets

PART 2: INSIGHTS

De Grauwe P., Economia dell’unione monetaria, il Mulino, 2019

A book chosen from the following list:
• Alesina A., Favero C., Giavazzi F., Austerità, Rizzoli, 2019
• Acocella N., L’unione economica e monetaria europea, Carocci, 2019
• Bini Smaghi L., Morire di austerità, il Mulino, 2013
• Bini Smaghi L., 33 false verità sull’Europa, il Mulino, 2014
• Cesaratto S., Chi non rispetta le regole?, Imprimatur, 2018
• De Romanis V., L’austerità fa crescere, Marsilio, 2017
• Piga G., L’interregno, Hoepli, 2020
• Pittaluga G.B., Cama G., Banche centrali e democrazia, Hoepli, 2004
• Stagnaro C. (a cura di), Cosa succede se usciamo dall’euro?, IBL Libri, 2018

PART 1: ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT

The extended economy
Environment and ethics
Economic growth, population growth and the environment
Sustainable development
The functioning of the markets and the causes of their failure
The failure of public intervention
Cost-benefit analysis
The evaluation of the interest for nature
Addressing uncertainty
Recourse to the market to protect the environment
The establishment of taxes for the use of the environment
Ecological taxes
Trade in environmental permits
Setting environmental standards
Renewable resources
Non-renewable resources

PART 2: ENERGY ECONOMY
The energy system
Economy, energy and environment
The country's energy strategy

Turner R.K., Pearce D.W., Bateman I., Economia ambientale, il Mulino, 2003
Ranci P. (ed.), Economia dell’energia, il Mulino, 2011

1.What is the economic analysis of the law
2.The economic origins of the state
3. Market failures and public functions. -1. Public goods and merit goods
4. Market failures and public functions. 2. The regulation of market power and externalities
5.The causes of state bankruptcy and remedies.
6. Ultra-state cooperation and intra-state competition.
7. Delegation of functions to the administration
8. The multiple clients of the public administration
9.The logic of bureaucratic behavior
10. The industrial organization of the bureaucratic administration
11. The public entrepreneurial system and outsourcing
12. Theory and practice of conferring functions to independent authorities.
13. The tools of action of the public administration. - 1. Administrative power and reduction of transaction costs.
14. Public administration tools of action. - 2. Consensual administration and collective well-being.
15.The regulation of administrative action and its paradoxes
16. Functions and techniques of the disciplines of the administrative procedure
17. Public contracts and contractor selection procedures
18. The types of public administration responsibilities
19. Judicial supervision and the administrative process.

G. Napolitano – M. Abrescia, Analisi economica del diritto pubblico, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009.


G. Napolitano, Diritto amministrativo e processo economico, in Dir. amm., 4, 2014.
M. D’Alberti, Diritto pubblico dei mercati e analisi economica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
M. Cafagno, La responsabilità della amministrazione pubblica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
S. Rose-Ackerman, Public Choice, Public Law and Public Policy, Keynote address, First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society, Amsterdam, March 31, 2007, Yale University.
S. Rose-Ackerman, The Economic Analysis of Public Law, European Journal of Law and Economics, 1:53--70 (1994).

Introduction: The Balkans and the European Turkey; Geography, people, economy and society; The Great Powers, the Balkans e the national awakening; The end of the Ottoman power and the nation building and state building; The new century, its development and the consequences on the South-east Europe: The Balkan Wars: the end of the Risorgimento phase and the start of a new political vision: nationalism and imperialism; The World War One and its consequences; Peace, war and the Balkans in the New Europe; New Borders, new states and new people also? The interwar years the first massive modernization in the Balkans; A new ruler: the Third Reich; crisis and war; The establishment of a communist rule in the Balkan countries: the birth of a new world? Between Stalin ad Tito; The Seventieth and the eighties: stabilization and stagnation; the fall of the communist regimes and the hard transition.

1) Alberto Basciani, L'illusione della modernità. Il Sud-est dell'Europa tra le due guerre mondiali, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
2) E. Ivetic, I Balcani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020 3) Andrew B. Wachtel, Storia dei Balcani, Lecce, Salento Books, 2016.

for non-attending students:

1) Ben Fowekes, L'Europa orientale dal 1945 al 1970, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 2) Bulent Gokay, L'Europa orientale dal 1970 a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 .

The course is tought through a series of frontal lectures - almost the 70% of the classes - followed by a variable (according to the number of the attending students) number of group presentations. Those group presentations are conceived as the sharing with the rest of the class of the research each group has to do during the semester. While the frontal lectures aim at providing the students with the knowledge of the most important transformations the availability of nuclear weapons have brought about at the intarnational level, the group presentations deal with some cases studies or some specific dynamics the students are interested in studying in depth

The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.

The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.

Texbooks and materials


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

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Gli studenti non frequentanti dovranno studiare i seguenti testi per l'esame orale:


1) Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, 2017


2) Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina Contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019


3) Laura Fotia (a cura di), Le Politiche dell'odio nel Novecento americano, Nova Delphi Academia (solo i saggi relativi all'America Latina, da concordare con la docente)



Inoltre, un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura

Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

Loris Zanatta, La nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell'Argentina di Bergoglio, Laterza

Introduction: from Kevian Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of an European power; The long Russian Nineteenth century from Napoleonic wars to Alexander II's reforms; Nicholas II, the last tzar and his empire: the contradiction of an impetuous and disorderly development; the World War One and the end of a world; the Russian revolutions; The rise of Lenin and the Bolshevik; The Bolshevik party his origins ad his success; The Russian civil wars and the origin of the Soviet state; The NEP; The rise of Stalin: Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of a new Soviet Russia; The Great Terror; the Comintern the foreign communist parties and the PCUS hegemony; The "double" Soviet foreign policy and the origin of the Second World War; The War; After the war: the birth of a super-power; Soviet Russia, western powers and the Cold War; Nikita Khrushchev and a very turning point in the soviet history: the XX Congress, The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; the impossible reform attempt: Gorbachev between Perestrojka and Glasnost'; the fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the shady era; a new strong man? Vladimir Putin and the new Russia.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

2) G. P. Caselli, La Russia nuova. Economia e Storia da Gorbacev a Putin, Milano - Udine, Mimesis


for non-attending students:

Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi. Also the english version

The acquisition of tools for understanding the women’s conditions and the gender relations will be carried out through a programme divided in three parts.
In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second and third part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.

Gisela Bock, The Women in the European History. From Middle Age to the Contemporary Time, Laterza editore
Sandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore
The Great War of Italian Women. Mobilitations, wrights and transformations, edited by Stefania Bartoloni, Viella editore

We will explore the orgins of the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trends towards alternative and renewable energy sources and "peak demand" for oil. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of Fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by relevant literature (and possibly archival material), images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Pobodnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Pobodnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the reference books

The course analyzes the history of International Relations from the mid 1980s till 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 itnernational 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).

Textbooks compulsory for ALL (attending and non-attending students)

1) Antonio Varsori, Le relazioni internazionali dopo la guerra fredda, 1989-2017 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018)
2) Giuseppe Mammarella, Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la guerra fredda (Bologna: Il Mulino)

3) two short readings, available at the Cartoleria "4 Appunti", via G.Chiabrera (excerpt from the book: Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali // and excerpt from the book: Odd Arne Westad, La guerra fredda globale)

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ATTENDING students (Frequentanti)

In addition to these books (Varsori; Mammarella; and the two short readings), 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)
- New Book: Chollet & Goldgeier, America between the wars. The misunderstood years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror. From 11/9 to 9/11 (2008)

3) ONU

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

Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology. Gender as a category of historical analysis.

Week 2
Ancient Greece: the Greek tradition of misogyny. Plato and Aristotle. The Aristotelian legacy. Queens philosophers in Plato’s Republic.

Week 3
Women in medieval thought.
The Church Fathers: St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature

Week 4
Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli. Defending masculinity against Fortuna.

Week 5
Natural rights against natural authority
Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model
John Locke against patriarchy. The sexual contract.

Week 6
The State of nature and reconstructing a masculinized republic: Rousseau.
Rousseau and the domestication of women.

Week 7
Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft
Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill

Week 8
Constructing liberal feminism in the US: The 19th century women’s rights movement. The social roots of the American women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Week 9
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy. Virginia Woolf e Simone de Beauvoir. Equality and difference.

Week 10

The debate on multiculturalism. In class debate.


REQUIRED READINGS:

The required readings can be found on Moodle, in our library or on the University Discovery web page.

- Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075

- Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987

- Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157

- Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992,
- Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought

- Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993

- Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical
Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2

- Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7

- Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213

- Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6

- Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4

- Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7

- Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

- Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85

- John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9

- Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281

- From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322

- Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412

- Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421

- Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29

- Kathryn Kish Sklar, Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870, Bedford, 2000

- Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652

- Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705

- Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, edited by Susan Moller Okin, Princeton University Press, 1999



RECOMMENDED READINGS:
- Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, Basic Books, 1989

This course is taught in English.

Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology.

- Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075
- Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987
- Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157



Week 2
Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle.

- Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992,
- Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought
- Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought
- Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought



Week 3
Women in medieval thought.
The Church Fathers: St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature

- Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993
- Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical
Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2




Week 4
Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli


- Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7
- Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213
- Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6


Week 5
Natural rights against natural authority
Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model
John Locke against patriarchy

- Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4
- Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6

Week 6
The State of Nature and Reconstructing a Masculinized Republic: Rousseau

- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7
- Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
- Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002


Week 7
Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft
Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill

- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85
- John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238
- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9







Week 8
Constructing Liberal Feminism in the US: The 19th Century Women’s Rights Movement


- Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281
- From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322
- Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412
- Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421
- Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29

Week 9
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy.

- Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652
- Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705

For centuries mankind has desired peace and a peaceful resolution of conflicts; only in the last few centuries peace has been perceived as an attainable political objective. In this way, the idea of the abolition of war became conceivable, associations dedicated to peace arose (and pacifism was also considered as a kind of peace party) and international organizations were founded, with the aim of banning war and promoting peacekeeping operations.

The course offers a historical introduction to the theme of peace as one of the focal points of contemporary politics until the beginning of the 21st century. It is dedicated to the international history of peace ideas, peace movements and peace institutions.

The course aims to encourage students to think critically on the theme of war/peace in history, focusing on past centuries, but with an introduction to why, during Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern age, the desire for peace and the rejection of war never became a political objective.

By the end of the course, students will be able to better comprehend the main aspects of the peace/war debate and the importance and limitations of peace movements and peace institutions in the contemporary world. Furthermore, they will acquire an understanding of the main interpretations and methodologies proposed and used by scholars to analyze the history of peace.

The course is taught in English.

Introduction: Peace and Historical Research
Week 1
Introduction and description of the course. Methodological issues and new approaches: The concept of peace; ‘Peace history’; Pacifism and ‘pacificism’.


PART I – The inevitability of war

Week 2
Antiquity: Ancient Eastern Civilizations, War and peace in the Bible, Ancient Greece, Rome. The Christian Tradition: Early Christianity and military service: A Christian pacifism?; The Constantinian turn; Augustine’s synthesis.

Week 3
The Middle Ages: Islam, Christianity and holy war; the ‘just war’ theory; Christians refuse war (Bogomils, Cathars, Waldensians, Lollards, Taborites, Bohemian and Moravian Brethren). Refusal of war in the age of absolute Monarchies: Erasmus’s humanist irenism, Anabaptist, Memmonite, Anti-Trinitarian Not-Resistance, Quaker ‘peace testimony’. Restraint of war in the age of absolute monarchies: Victoria and Grotius.


PART II
Peace As a Political Aim

Week 4
The idea of a ‘perpetual peace’ (1712-1814): Enlightenment and peace projects; Rousseau; Kant; Revolutionary war and the birth of the ‘friends of peace’.

Week 5
Peace and war in the age of nations (1815-1870): Conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, socialism and the peace issue; Moderates and radicals inside peace societies; The Peace Congress Movement and its politicization.

Week 6
The age of militarism and pacifism (1870-1914): The birth of pacifism as an international movement for international law and arbitration; Socialist anti-militarism; Tolstoyanism; The difficulties of pacifists and socialists.


PART III
Total Peace in the Age of Total War

Week 7
The failure of peace and a new pacifism (1914-1918): Nationalism and peace; New associations: Women’s International League, Union of Democratic Control, League of Nations Society, No-Conscription Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation. ‘No More Wars’ (1914-1931): Wilsonianism and the League of Nations; Gandhi and nonviolence; A peace mass movement.



Week 8
Pacifism and Totalitarianism (1931-1945): Warlike totalitarianisms; A divided peace movement; The Peace Pledge Union; Against fascism and war?.


PART IV
The Age of Peace Movements

Week 9
‘One World or None’ (1939-1947): the UN; World federalism; A physicists’ anti-nuclear weapons movement; New anti-war constitutions. ‘Does the Dove Fly to East?’ (1947-1953): The communist ‘partisans od peace’; World federalism’s rise and fall; Peace at the core of the Cold War political debate.

Week 10
Peace and Protest (1954-1978): Atomic consciousness; the Pugwash movement; The anti-nuclear protest; Churches and peace; ‘Make Love, Not War!’: young culture and the Vietnam War; Peace and revolution; The Peace Research. Missiles and Peace Culture (1979-1989): Eco-Pax; the Transnational peace movement.

Week 11
The Peacekeeping Years (1989-2001): UN peace-keeping and its theory; Clinton administration and ‘democratic peace’; Peacekeepers vs. pacifists. War and Peace at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Tomahawks vs. Kalashnikov: A decline of ‘Great Wars’? US Mars vs. EU Venus?

Week 12
A final appraisal: Pacifism or pacifisms? Peace and Politics. What results? Policies or politics changed?

REQUIRED READINGS:
David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition).


REQUIRED WORK FOR NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS (ONLY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENTS)
• In English:
1. David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
2. Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition).
3. One book chosen among the recommended readings
4. Another book chosen among the recommended readings

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

International economics theories will be analyzed in a historical sequence, from the 18th century to the present day.

F. Masini, Storia e teorie delle relazioni economiche internazionali, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2017.
F. Masini, SMEmorie della Lira. Gli economisti Italiani e l’adesione al Sistema Monetario Europeo, Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2004, second edition 2014.
(For all those who take the exam in English, there is a collection of papers and book chapters which can be borrowed from the Library of the Faculty.)

Introduction:
-Angeli A., Salvini S., “Introduzione” e “Note Tecniche” in Popolazione e sviluppo nelle regioni del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
The theory of demographic transition:
– Livi Bacci M. (2017). A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The Recent Demography pp. 119-166
The second demographic transition:
-Natale M. (a cura di), Economia e popolazione, F. Angeli, Milano, 2002, cap. 2, § 2.4, La seconda transizione demografica: un’interpretazione demo-sociale dell’attuale comportamento riproduttivo dei paesi europei, pp. 67-75.
-De Santis G., Demografia ed economia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1997, cap. 3, La teoria della produzione familiare e la razionalità dei comportamenti demografici, pp. 109-156.
Ageing population:
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Population ageing in Europe: facts, implications and policies, 2014

Population of poor countries
Livi Bacci M. A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The Populations of Poor Countries pp. 167-224
Gesano G., Tendenze della popolazione urbana e dei sistemi urbani, in Golini A. (ed.) Il futuro della popolazione mondiale, Bologna il Mulino, pp. 145-162

Population and politics
-Bussini O., Politiche di popolazione e migrazioni, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, nuova edizione 2010, cap. secondo, Le politiche di popolazione, pp.15-36; capitolo terzo, L’attuazione delle politiche di popolazione, pp. 59-86.
Il caso della Cina:
-Wang F., Baochang G., Yong C., The End of China’s One-Child Policy, Studies in Family Planning, 47, 1, 2016, pp- 83-86.

International migration
-Guarneri, A. Le migrazioni internazionali , Dispense, 2010, 23 pp.
-Bonifazi C., Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi: realtà e prospettive, in C. Bonifazi (a cura di), Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi: realtà e prospettive, Roma, IRPS-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ePublishing, 2017, pp. 7-41.

The future
Il futuro:
Livi Bacci M. A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The future pp. 225-280

Introduction:
-Angeli A., Salvini S., “Introduzione” e “Note Tecniche” in Popolazione e sviluppo nelle regioni del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
The theory of demographic transition:
– Livi Bacci M. (2017). A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The Recent Demography pp. 119-166
The second demographic transition:
-Natale M. (a cura di), Economia e popolazione, F. Angeli, Milano, 2002, cap. 2, § 2.4, La seconda transizione demografica: un’interpretazione demo-sociale dell’attuale comportamento riproduttivo dei paesi europei, pp. 67-75.
-De Santis G., Demografia ed economia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1997, cap. 3, La teoria della produzione familiare e la razionalità dei comportamenti demografici, pp. 109-156.
Ageing population:
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Population ageing in Europe: facts, implications and policies, 2014

Population of poor countries
Livi Bacci M. (2017) A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The Populations of Poor Countries pp. 167-224
Gesano G., Tendenze della popolazione urbana e dei sistemi urbani, in Golini A. (ed.) Il futuro della popolazione mondiale, Bologna il Mulino, pp. 145-162

Population and politics
-Bussini O., Politiche di popolazione e migrazioni, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, nuova edizione 2010, cap. secondo, Le politiche di popolazione, pp.15-36; capitolo terzo, L’attuazione delle politiche di popolazione, pp. 59-86.
Il caso della Cina:
-Wang F., Baochang G., Yong C., The End of China’s One-Child Policy, Studies in Family Planning, 47, 1, 2016, pp- 83-86.

International migration
-Guarneri, A. Le migrazioni internazionali , Dispense, 2010, 23 pp.
-Bonifazi C., Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi: realtà e prospettive, in C. Bonifazi (a cura di), Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi: realtà e prospettive, Roma, IRPS-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ePublishing, 2017, pp. 7-41.

The future
Il futuro:
Livi Bacci M. (2017) A concise history of world population. John Wiley & Sons. cap. The future pp. 225-280

1. Introduction to international law
2. Legal constructivism and international law.
3. Justice and methodology in international law.
4. Singularities of international adjudication.
5. International adjudication in disputes between states.
6. International adjudication in disputes concerning human rights.
7. International criminal justice.
8. International arbitration in foreign investments.
9. International courts and tribunals operating within autonomous legal systems.
10. Global neoliberalism and the human person.
11. Analysis of 10 cases decided by international courts and tribunals.

Cases:

1. Khlaifia, § 68
2. Cestaro, § 79
3. Abu Omar, § 32
4. Immunità giurisdizionali dallo Stato (Germania c. Italia): https://uniroma3-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/cfocarelli_os_uniroma3_it/Ec4ZjEYYfodIiiGvtUiW4o4Ba7k6wHi4hu-NRgCh-AyShA?e=8fgUdk
5. Norstar, §§ 42, 75
6. Torreggiani, § 77
7. Ogiek, § 90
8. Al-Bashir, § 129
9. Rohingya, § 130
10. Afghanistan, § 131

Textbooks and materials, with further references therein (in several languages):

1. Carlo Focarelli, Costruttivismo giuridico e giurisdizioni internazionali (Milan: Kluwer/Cedam, 2019).
2. Carlo Focarelli, Diritto internazionale – II. Prassi (2012-2019) (Milan: Kluwer/Cedam, 2019), in particular 10 cases listed below will be extensively discussed in class and are included in the syllabus for exam purposes*.
3. For students who have not passed an exam in international law the following textbook is also required in part: Carlo Focarelli, Diritto internazionale (Milano: Kluwer/Cedam, 2019, 5th edn), only paras §§ 80, 82, 108-117, 140-166.

* Here are the cases discussed in class and falling under the scope of the exam for both attending and non-attending students:

1. Khlaifia, § 68
2. Cestaro, § 79
3. Abu Omar, § 32
4. Jurisdictional immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy): https://uniroma3-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/cfocarelli_os_uniroma3_it/Ec4ZjEYYfodIiiGvtUiW4o4Ba7k6wHi4hu-NRgCh-AyShA?e=8fgUdk
5. Norstar, §§ 42, 75
6. Torreggiani, § 77
7. Ogiek, § 90
8. Al-Bashir, § 129
9. Rohingya, § 130
10. Afghanistan, § 131

The number following the symbol “§” indicates the case number in the book above sub 2.

The syllabus is the same for attending and non-attending studends.

The course presupposes an adequate knowledge of international law. Students who have already passed an exam in international law are required to provide a certificate thereof.

DESCRIPTION:

The Course is developed into two main sections, debating on the theoretical concept of the right to development as a human right and analyzing the international development cooperation within the United Nations system as well as the international Organizations – IOs - working in the economic, financial and trade fields. Also the regional and national systems (e.g. the European Union and the Italian framework) and the non institutional actors (e.g. NGOs and private business companies) will be investigated.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:

Students will be able to:

• To comprehensively examine the most significant views regarding the legal framework of the international development law in the past and current international debate as well as in the international practice, in particular concerning IOs.

• To be updated on lessons learned and good practices in terms of international development cooperation frameworks and related challenges, in particular in relation to the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda scenario.

• To have an in depth understanding of the crucial role played by institutional and non institutional actors in the international development law framework.

• To get focused on contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues through the awareness of the pivotal role, played particularly by BRICs and Developing Countries, thanks to the study of ad hoc policy documents.

• The students will develop an inquiring thinking, thanks to a variety of learning activities in class, such as essay questions, oral presentations, writing assignments, reports, case studies, guest speakers, so to have a real and tangible understanding of how international development cooperation theories at large are put into practice by States, International Organizations (IOs), non institutional actors, such as NGO’s, and other key players.

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the Course; the UN framework: past vs. future international development cooperation
Topic: Preliminary basics of the International development cooperation
Conceptual framework of the International development cooperation
Operational mechanisms and procedures
The right to development and international cooperation

Topic: Key-elements of the right to development
Economic, sustainable and social factors at the core of the human development concept: theoretical and practical approach
International actors: donors and partners; IOs; the role of the United Nations within the international cooperative framework
From MDGs to SDGs
Approaching to the 2015 time limit and beyond: the new era of the post-2015/2030 Development Agenda

PART II – The financial/trade development cooperation
Topic: The International financial and trade development cooperation
The role and action of the World Bank Group and related development cooperation mechanisms and models
The financial cooperation of the International Monetary Fund

Topic: Trade Law and development cooperation principles
The basics of WTO: principles and rules to create and perform International development cooperation practices
Comprehensive overview about international financial and trade development cooperation actors and models

PART III – The regional dimension, the non-institutional approach of the international development cooperation
Topic: The regional dimension of the development cooperation
Historical, legal and practical features of the development partnership between EEC/EU and the African and Mediterranean Countries
The European development model cycle: analysis and implementation in a comparative perspective

Topic: The non institutional actors of the international development cooperation
NGOs: private profile, global action
The business and the International development cooperation: rethinking the way for best actions
Corporate Social Responsibility and human rights protection in the view of development cooperation

PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

This course in taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) UNDP, Human Development Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019 (free choice of one UNDP Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport) / the 2020 Edition will be released in the second half of 2020

2) Books:
2010, Rumu Sarkar, International Development Law. Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance, Oxford University Press, chapters 2 and 4, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398281.001.0001/acprof-9780195398281

3) Articles listed by Journal/Review (one choice) free access to Journals/Reviews on www. sba.uniroma3.it, please refer to the Syllabus.

For centuries mankind has desired peace and a peaceful resolution of conflicts; only in the last few centuries peace has been perceived as an attainable political objective. In this way, the idea of the abolition of war became conceivable, associations dedicated to peace arose (and pacifism was also considered as a kind of peace party) and international organizations were founded, with the aim of banning war and promoting peacekeeping operations.

The course offers a historical introduction to the theme of peace as one of the focal points of contemporary politics until the beginning of the 21st century. It is dedicated to the international history of peace ideas, peace movements and peace institutions.

The course aims to encourage students to think critically on the theme of war/peace in history, focusing on past centuries, but with an introduction to why, during Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern age, the desire for peace and the rejection of war never became a political objective.

By the end of the course, students will be able to better comprehend the main aspects of the peace/war debate and the importance and limitations of peace movements and peace institutions in the contemporary world. Furthermore, they will acquire an understanding of the main interpretations and methodologies proposed and used by scholars to analyze the history of peace.

The course is taught in English.

Introduction: Peace and Historical Research
Week 1
Introduction and description of the course. Methodological issues and new approaches: The concept of peace; ‘Peace history’; Pacifism and ‘pacificism’.


PART I – The inevitability of war

Week 2
Antiquity: Ancient Eastern Civilizations, War and peace in the Bible, Ancient Greece, Rome. The Christian Tradition: Early Christianity and military service: A Christian pacifism?; The Constantinian turn; Augustine’s synthesis.

Week 3
The Middle Ages: Islam, Christianity and holy war; the ‘just war’ theory; Christians refuse war (Bogomils, Cathars, Waldensians, Lollards, Taborites, Bohemian and Moravian Brethren). Refusal of war in the age of absolute Monarchies: Erasmus’s humanist irenism, Anabaptist, Memmonite, Anti-Trinitarian Not-Resistance, Quaker ‘peace testimony’. Restraint of war in the age of absolute monarchies: Victoria and Grotius.


PART II
Peace As a Political Aim

Week 4
The idea of a ‘perpetual peace’ (1712-1814): Enlightenment and peace projects; Rousseau; Kant; Revolutionary war and the birth of the ‘friends of peace’.

Week 5
Peace and war in the age of nations (1815-1870): Conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, socialism and the peace issue; Moderates and radicals inside peace societies; The Peace Congress Movement and its politicization.

Week 6
The age of militarism and pacifism (1870-1914): The birth of pacifism as an international movement for international law and arbitration; Socialist anti-militarism; Tolstoyanism; The difficulties of pacifists and socialists.


PART III
Total Peace in the Age of Total War

Week 7
The failure of peace and a new pacifism (1914-1918): Nationalism and peace; New associations: Women’s International League, Union of Democratic Control, League of Nations Society, No-Conscription Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation. ‘No More Wars’ (1914-1931): Wilsonianism and the League of Nations; Gandhi and nonviolence; A peace mass movement.



Week 8
Pacifism and Totalitarianism (1931-1945): Warlike totalitarianisms; A divided peace movement; The Peace Pledge Union; Against fascism and war?.


PART IV
The Age of Peace Movements

Week 9
‘One World or None’ (1939-1947): the UN; World federalism; A physicists’ anti-nuclear weapons movement; New anti-war constitutions. ‘Does the Dove Fly to East?’ (1947-1953): The communist ‘partisans od peace’; World federalism’s rise and fall; Peace at the core of the Cold War political debate.

Week 10
Peace and Protest (1954-1978): Atomic consciousness; the Pugwash movement; The anti-nuclear protest; Churches and peace; ‘Make Love, Not War!’: young culture and the Vietnam War; Peace and revolution; The Peace Research. Missiles and Peace Culture (1979-1989): Eco-Pax; the Transnational peace movement.

Week 11
The Peacekeeping Years (1989-2001): UN peace-keeping and its theory; Clinton administration and ‘democratic peace’; Peacekeepers vs. pacifists. War and Peace at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Tomahawks vs. Kalashnikov: A decline of ‘Great Wars’? US Mars vs. EU Venus?

Week 12
A final appraisal: Pacifism or pacifisms? Peace and Politics. What results? Policies or politics changed?

REQUIRED READINGS:
David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition).


REQUIRED WORK FOR NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS (ONLY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENTS)
• In English:
1. David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
2. Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition).
3. One book chosen among the recommended readings
4. Another book chosen among the recommended readings

The course is offered to all students.

It will focus on: “The absurd and history”.

The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of two novels: Albert Camus, “L’Étranger” (1942) and Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête” (2013).

1) Albert Camus, “L’Étranger”, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1942 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 (paperback edition)

3) “Il romanzo francese del Novecento”, Sandra Teroni, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, pp. 62-95 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters XIII, XIV, XV (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Maurice Blanchot, "Le mythe de Sisyphe", "Le roman de l'étranger", in "Faux pas", Paris, Gallimard, 1943 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

6) Jean-Paul Sartre, "Explication de 'L'Étranger'", in "Situations I", Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

7) Edward W. Said, "Introduction", “Camus et l’expérience impériale française”, in Culture et impérialisme, Paris, Fayard, 2000, pp. 248-268 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

8) Frantz Fanon, "Les damnsés de la terre", Paris, La Découverte, 2000 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Camus's and Daoud's novels are available from: Feltrinelli International Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 84/86 00185 Roma.

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of literary texts in order to understand the relationship between American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding,” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work,” in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “Interpreter of Maladies,” in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
Santos, Bienvenido. “Quicker with Arrows”, in Wong, Shawn (ed.) Asian American Literature. A Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York: HarperCollins, 1996, 80-102.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (excerpts).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

German political Theatre against nuclear war
the course aims to deepen, through reading and discussion of famous texts of political theatre and documents on the German nuclear debate, the topic of the atomic bomb, the nuclear war and the relationship between science, ethics and politics in cultural political world in Germany of the sixties.

Deutschsprachiges Theater gegen den Nuklearkrieg
Die Vorlesung führt die Studierenden in wichtige Themenbereiche der deutschen Kultur und Geschichte ein. Sie vermittelt einen Einblick in das Atomdrama der sechziger Jahre und in den Motivkomplex Wissenschaft, Ethik und Politik in der deutschen Debatte um die Kernenergie.

F. Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker, Dyogenes Verlag
H. Kipphardt, In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rororo (Rowohlt Verlag)


B. Brecht: Leben des Galilei

1.What is the economic analysis of the law
2.The economic origins of the state
3. Market failures and public functions. -1. Public goods and merit goods
4. Market failures and public functions. 2. The regulation of market power and externalities
5.The causes of state bankruptcy and remedies.
6. Ultra-state cooperation and intra-state competition.
7. Delegation of functions to the administration
8. The multiple clients of the public administration
9.The logic of bureaucratic behavior
10. The industrial organization of the bureaucratic administration
11. The public entrepreneurial system and outsourcing
12. Theory and practice of conferring functions to independent authorities.
13. The tools of action of the public administration. - 1. Administrative power and reduction of transaction costs.
14. Public administration tools of action. - 2. Consensual administration and collective well-being.
15.The regulation of administrative action and its paradoxes
16. Functions and techniques of the disciplines of the administrative procedure
17. Public contracts and contractor selection procedures
18. The types of public administration responsibilities
19. Judicial supervision and the administrative process.

G. Napolitano – M. Abrescia, Analisi economica del diritto pubblico, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009.


G. Napolitano, Diritto amministrativo e processo economico, in Dir. amm., 4, 2014.
M. D’Alberti, Diritto pubblico dei mercati e analisi economica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
M. Cafagno, La responsabilità della amministrazione pubblica, in Associazione italiana dei professori di diritto amministrativo – AIPDA, Convegno Analisi economica e diritto amministrativo, Venezia 28-29 settembre 2006.
S. Rose-Ackerman, Public Choice, Public Law and Public Policy, Keynote address, First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society, Amsterdam, March 31, 2007, Yale University.
S. Rose-Ackerman, The Economic Analysis of Public Law, European Journal of Law and Economics, 1:53--70 (1994).

Different approaches to the subject "fundamental rights".
Choices characterizing the Italian Constitution.
Is the number of constitutional rights limited ?
Statutory reservation of power and reserve of jurisdiction.
Right to liberty of person.
Right to respect of home.
Right to respect of correspondence.
Freedom of movement.
Freedom of expression.
Freedom of assembly.
Freedom of association.
Freedom to conduct a business and right to property.
Social rights as fundamental rights : right to work, right to health care, right to education.

P. Caretti, G. Tarli Barbieri, I diritti fondamentali, Giappichelli, Torino, IV edizione, 2017.

The course aims to analyze the modalities of formation of the European States pluralistic system born in the Modern Age from the disintegration of the imperial and pontifical universalisms of the Middle Ages, following the metamorphoses of three key concepts (universal monarchy, balance of power, supranational bodies) in the context of the political-diplomatic and war events of the Four-Eighteenth Century. Particular attention will be devoted to the transformations of the concept of monarchia universalis in the context of territorial and imperial States between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Spain, Holland and England), to the international practice of balance of power before and after the Thirty Years War, to development of the idea of peace and to the first proposals of supranational organizations for the resolution of conflicts between States.

A. Aubert, L’Europa degli imperi e degli stati. Monarchie universali, equilibrio di potenza e pacifismi dal XV al XVII secolo, Bari, Cacucci, 2008

Introduction: The Balkans and the European Turkey; Geography, people, economy and society; The Great Powers, the Balkans e the national awakening; The end of the Ottoman power and the nation building and state building; The new century, its development and the consequences on the South-east Europe: The Balkan Wars: the end of the Risorgimento phase and the start of a new political vision: nationalism and imperialism; The World War One and its consequences; Peace, war and the Balkans in the New Europe; New Borders, new states and new people also? The interwar years the first massive modernization in the Balkans; A new ruler: the Third Reich; crisis and war; The establishment of a communist rule in the Balkan countries: the birth of a new world? Between Stalin ad Tito; The Seventieth and the eighties: stabilization and stagnation; the fall of the communist regimes and the hard transition.

1) Alberto Basciani, L'illusione della modernità. Il Sud-est dell'Europa tra le due guerre mondiali, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
2) E. Ivetic, I Balcani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020 3) Andrew B. Wachtel, Storia dei Balcani, Lecce, Salento Books, 2016.

for non-attending students:

1) Ben Fowekes, L'Europa orientale dal 1945 al 1970, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 2) Bulent Gokay, L'Europa orientale dal 1970 a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 .

Introduction: from Kevian Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of an European power; The long Russian Nineteenth century from Napoleonic wars to Alexander II's reforms; Nicholas II, the last tzar and his empire: the contradiction of an impetuous and disorderly development; the World War One and the end of a world; the Russian revolutions; The rise of Lenin and the Bolshevik; The Bolshevik party his origins ad his success; The Russian civil wars and the origin of the Soviet state; The NEP; The rise of Stalin: Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of a new Soviet Russia; The Great Terror; the Comintern the foreign communist parties and the PCUS hegemony; The "double" Soviet foreign policy and the origin of the Second World War; The War; After the war: the birth of a super-power; Soviet Russia, western powers and the Cold War; Nikita Khrushchev and a very turning point in the soviet history: the XX Congress, The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; the impossible reform attempt: Gorbachev between Perestrojka and Glasnost'; the fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the shady era; a new strong man? Vladimir Putin and the new Russia.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

2) G. P. Caselli, La Russia nuova. Economia e Storia da Gorbacev a Putin, Milano - Udine, Mimesis


for non-attending students:

Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi. Also the english version

The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.

The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.

Texbooks and materials


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

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Gli studenti non frequentanti dovranno studiare i seguenti testi per l'esame orale:


1) Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, 2017


2) Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina Contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019


3) Laura Fotia (a cura di), Le Politiche dell'odio nel Novecento americano, Nova Delphi Academia (solo i saggi relativi all'America Latina, da concordare con la docente)



Inoltre, un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura

Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

Loris Zanatta, La nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell'Argentina di Bergoglio, Laterza

The detailed program is as follows:
1. Introduction of the course and macroeconomics in the short run: chapters from 1 to 6 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
2. Macroeconomics in the medium run: chapters 7-8-9 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
3. Macroeconomics in the long run: chapters from 10 to 13 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
4. The open economy: chapters from 17 to 20 of the textbook, appendices are excluded;
5. Back to policy: chapters 22-23 and 24 of the textbook, appendices are excluded.

TEXTBOOK: OLIVIER BLANCHARD, ALESSIA AMIGHINI, FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea, Nuova Edizione 2020, Il Mulino, collana Strumenti

English Textbook: OLIVIER BLANCHARD, ALESSIA AMIGHINI, FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Macroeconomics. A European Perspective, 3rd Edition 2016, Pearson

Macroeconomics: A European Perspective, 3rd Edition, Olivier Blanchard, Francesco Giavazzi, Alessia Amighini, Pearson University Press, 2020

PART 1: ECONOMY OF THE MONETARY UNION

Costs of a common currency
The theory of Optimal Currency Areas (AVO) and its criticisms
Benefits of a common currency
Costs and benefits compared
The fragility of incomplete monetary unions
How to complete a monetary union
The transition to a monetary union
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Monetary policy in the Eurozone
Budgetary policies in monetary unions
The euro and the financial markets

PART 2: INSIGHTS

De Grauwe P., Economia dell’unione monetaria, il Mulino, 2019

A book chosen from the following list:
• Alesina A., Favero C., Giavazzi F., Austerità, Rizzoli, 2019
• Acocella N., L’unione economica e monetaria europea, Carocci, 2019
• Bini Smaghi L., Morire di austerità, il Mulino, 2013
• Bini Smaghi L., 33 false verità sull’Europa, il Mulino, 2014
• Cesaratto S., Chi non rispetta le regole?, Imprimatur, 2018
• De Romanis V., L’austerità fa crescere, Marsilio, 2017
• Piga G., L’interregno, Hoepli, 2020
• Pittaluga G.B., Cama G., Banche centrali e democrazia, Hoepli, 2004
• Stagnaro C. (a cura di), Cosa succede se usciamo dall’euro?, IBL Libri, 2018

The course is articulated in two parts.The topic issue is focused on the nature and the classification of war referring to the major international theories (Clausewitz; Schmitt; Aron). The course analyzes the evolution of war in terms of power and legal limits to the use of violence from Westphalia to the present day. In the second part the course discusses the Samuel Huntington theory of «The Clash of Civilization» to develop a new theoretical framework understanding the world politics after the cold war.

A. Colombo, La guerra ineguale. Pace e violenza nel tramonto della società internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2006.
S.P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, New York 1996.

The course is divided into two parts. The first provides a theorical framework of the transition process and analyzes the conceptual debate about democratic foundation and the challenges of democratic consolidation. The second part moves from the theory to practice and explores the specific democratization trajectories in Southern and Eastern Europe during the Second and the Third Wave emphasizing the legacies of the former non democratic regimes.

P. Grilli di Cortona, Come gli stati diventano democratici, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
P. Grilli di Cortona e O. Lanza (a cura di), Tra vecchio e nuovo regime. Il peso del passato nella costruzione della democrazia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2011.

The locution "human rights" denotes a field of action as well as a broad, inter-disciplinary, field of studies. In the first perspective, human rights are generally meant to express a set of minimum standards of conduct a State ought to meet in the treatment of individuals over whom it exercises its jurisdiction. Since the end of World War II international charters, conventions, covenants and declarations have been promulgated stating what basic rights individuals have. Notable efforts have been made to enforce adherence to those rights resulting in the creation of a system of multi-level jurisdiction through a number of international courts. Even though many see human rights as a Western, culturally biased, construction based upon an abstract and atomistic conception of the individual, the notion that for a State to promote and perform cruel and degrading acts is unjust, albeit for different reasons, has become increasingly popular globally. In the second perspective, descriptively human rights are said to be powers or properties belonging to all human beings in virtue of being human. Normatively that all human beings must be able to enjoy certain fundamental rights is a matter of global justice. Today not only theories of human rights, concerned with guiding action, but also theories about human rights, concerned with foundational questions, compete with one another. The course concentreates on the theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth. There is general agreement about the fact that liberal-democratic societies are based on normative principles, which require legal provisions to ensure that governments do not violate anyone’s fundamental rights. Yet, partially on account of the complexity of the ongoing overlapping global processes of integration, deregulation, reform, and partially on account of the influence of anti-foundational critique (deconstruction; postmodernism; relativism), these widely accepted principles seem to have lost much of their original explanatory and prescriptive force. Contrary to those claiming that this problem consists of a mere temporal delay between philosophical investigation and practical application Honneth argues that more is needed than time, hope and persistence to transform theoretically developed principles of freedom and justice into guidelines for political action. In his view the normative principles at the heart of the human rights discourse are formulated in a manner that prevents us from deriving guidelines for political action. In particular, the course will examine the model of normative reconstruction that Honneth developed in neo-Hegelian fashion for the purpose of situating his own theory of justice as recognition in the analysis of the variety of historically determined institutional instances and practices that embody existentially significant claims to realization.

CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -

PART I – Historical background, methodological approaches, perspectives and major issues

- Introduction and course description; theory of human rights and its historical background; ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of discourse. Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of the anti-foundational critique
- Identity, authenticity, recognition and otherness

PART II – The theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth

- Situating Honneth; Hegelian roots; the fabric of justice
- The struggle for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice and the market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- The ‘We’ of democratic will-formation; Organized self-realization: paradoxes of individualization
- The work of negativity; the ‘I’ in ‘We’: recognition as driving force of group formation; recognition and ideology

This course is taught in English.

• Honneth, A., Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2011), trans. J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)
• Maiolo, F., Honneth’s Theory of Recognition (forthcoming publication: Apeiron Editori)

Introduction to International Monetary System
Interest Rates, Financial Instruments and the Role of Risk
The market for Foreign Exchange
International Banking System and Financial Markets
International Finance and Monetary Policy

This course is taught in English.

McGraw Hill Custom Book ISBN 9781308923505 based on
International Finance, 7th Global Edition by Eun, Resnick, 2014
Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Fourth Edition by Cecchetti, Schoenholtz, 2015

Part One
Section 1
The key concepts of public policy evaluation. The relationships between input, output and outcome. The indicators and statistical techniques at the various stages of evaluation: ex-ante, on-going and ex-post.
Section 2
Statistical references for the analysis of the evaluation of effects.
Evaluation of the effects of investment aid policies: experimental and non-experimental methods. the counterfactual approach and models used in the non-experimental methods. Case studies and examples.
Section 3
The European Union's regional policies and Structural Funds. The evaluation of structural policies.

Part Two

Section 4
The concepts of efficiency, productivity, economy, effectiveness, quality and sustainability. A brief overview of production or cost functions in the PA and DEA. Case studies and examples.
Section 5
The ex-ante evaluation of public investment projects. Feasibility studies. Swot Analysis. Cost-benefit analysis. Multicriteria analysis. Example methods and cases.
Regulatory impact assessment in Italy: technical instrumentation and experience gained.

Learning Material
Part One
Section 1
Texts 1 (A):

A1. A. Martini, M. Sisti, "A ciascuno il suo. Cinque modi di intendere la valutazione in ambito pubblico", Informaires, n.33, Dicembre 2007, pp. 1-9.
https://dokodoc.com/queue/a-ciascuno-il-suo-cinque-modi-di-intendere-la-valutazione-in.html

A3. M. De Castris, Le fonti statistiche per l’analisi e la valutazione delle politiche, Dispense didattiche, Roma, 2015.
A5. European Commission (2013) EVALSED GUIDE: The resource for the evaluation of Socio-Economic Development. cap. 4 Choosing methods and techniques par. Acquiring and using data in evaluation; Creating Indicators and indicator systems pp. 81-88. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf

Section 2
Texts 2 E

E1. A. Martini, M. Sisti (2009), Valutare il successo delle politiche pubbliche, Il Mulino, capp. VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII.
Lettura integrativa:
E2. Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. Parte prima. (http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)
Un manuale di statistica per rivedere concetti di base modello di regressione.
Per esempio: Borra Di Ciaccio “Statistica: Metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali”, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Gary Koop “Logica statistica dei dati economici”, Utet, 2001.

Section 3
Texts 3 C:
C1 V. Pupo (2003) La valutazione delle politiche strutturali, Rubbettino.cap.3 (pp. 53-78).
C2. F. Busillo, T. Muccigrosso, G. Pellegrini, O. Tarola, F. Terribile (2010) L’impatto della politica regionale sulla crescita delle regioni europee: un approccio basato sul regression discontinuity design. Collana UVAL-DPS, Analisi e studi, N.20. http://www.agenziacoesione.gov.it/opencms/export/sites/dps/it/documentazione/servizi/materiali_uval/analisi_e_studi/MUVAL_20_Politica_regionale_europea.pdf)
Part Two
Section 4
Texts 4 (B):
B2. F. Vidoli, Metodi di stima dell’efficienza produttiva e di costo. Rassegna delle principali tecniche di stima ed applicazioni in ambito pubblico. Dispense ad uso didattico, febbraio 2015.

Section 5
Texts 5 D:
D1. Commissione Europea (2003) Guida all’analisi costi-benefici dei progetti di investimento, Bruxelles. capp. 1, 2. (http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/guides/cost/guide02_it.pdf).
D3. C. Mazziotta(2011), “La strumentazione quantitativa per l’analisi di impatto della regolazione. Questioni di metodo e applicazioni”, in M. De Benedetto (a cura di), Spiagge in cerca di regole, Collana Arel, Il Mulino, Bologna.
D4. European Commission (2013) Evalsed Sourcebook: Method and Techniques cap.11 Multi-criteria Analysis 129-136; cap. 15 Swot Analysis pp.161-164. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/guide/guide_evalsed.pdf
D5. C. Mazziotta (2011), Cenni introduttivi sull’analisi multicriteri, Dispense ad uso didattico, Roma.
Integrazione per il programma da 9 CFU, a scelta:
M. Sisti (2006) Gli effetti della legge 27/93 della Regione Toscana sull’imprenditoria giovanile, di pp.199-226 in Formez (2006) Valutare gli effetti delle politiche pubbliche. Metodi e applicazioni al caso italiano. Collana Materiali, Roma. ((http://costopa.formez.it/sites/all/files/Valutare%20gli%20effetti%20dellle%20politiche%20pubbliche.pdf)

N.B. Supplementary materials are available at the copy shop: 4Appunti , via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

PART I – General Introduction. European constitutional theory and constitutional principles of European Union

1) The Idea of a European constitution and European constitutional law. The constitutionalizing process of the EU

2) The democratic deficit theory and the issue of "European demos"

3) Constitutional history: from "Ventotene" to Lisbon

4) The Lisbon Treaty and multilevel constitutionalism. The consolidating Europe's constitutional heritage trough constitutional traditions common to the Member States

5) European Citizenship, representative democracy and European party system

PART II – European Institutions and Sources of law

1) The European form of government: general principles

2) The European Parliament and the role of National Parliaments

3) The Reform of Council and the European Council

4) The European Commission, its President, and The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

5) General principles on the European system of sources of law

6) The Legislative procedures

7) European law and national legal systems

PART III – The European protection of fundamental rights

1) The European Court System: Competences and Procedures

2) Annulment Powers, Remedial Powers and Adjudicatory Powers

3) The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights

4) European fundamental rights and national law

REQUIRED READINGS:

- Robert Schütze, European Constitutional law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016 (Second Edition)
or
- Allan Rosas, Lorna Armati, EU Constitutional Law. An Introduction, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2018.

- Relevant European legal Texts (TEU, TFEU, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, ECHR, etc.)