The course, divided in two modules (Module 1: Multicultural American Literature; Module 2: Asian American Writers) 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.

Alexie, Sherman. “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2017 (excerpts).
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25.
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.
Hirahara, Naomi. “The Chirashi Covenant”, in Los Angeles Noir 2. The Classics (Ed. by Denise Hamilton). New York: Akashic Books, 2011, 144-156.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Craydon (UK): Picador, 1977 (excerpts).
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
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. “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 20-33.

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

- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Revision
6) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

Required readings:

1) Makoto Iokibe, The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan, Routledge 2010;
2) Rebecca E. Karl, China's Revolutions in the Modern World, Verso Books 2020;
3) Michael Yehuda, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (Fourth and Revised Edition), Routledge 2019;
4) Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-Chool Ha et al., Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia, Routledge 2022;
5) Oliviero Frattolillo, A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, Routledge 2023.

The course aims at providing students with a critical thinking on the United States in the last hundred years and of the contemporary world as seen from the American perspective. International studies today entail a good understanding of American culture and history: both because of the nation’s role worldwide and because the new methodologies in cultural and transnational studies developed in the United States, especially in the second half of the 20th century. Therefore, by the end of the course, students will be knowledgeable about the major aspects of U.S. history in the last 150 years both at the domestic and international level. Moreover, they will acquire an understanding of the major methodologies used by American scholars to study their country in transnational and international perspective.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e Impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il Mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, da pag. 159.

Stefano Luconi, Matteo Pretelli, “Nazione di immigrati” o “fortezza America”? Gli Stati Uniti e le minoranze etniche nel XXI secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024.

The Constitution of the USA: at the beginning of classes, the instructor will provide the indications of an online copy

The course offers an interpretative-methodological framework to the transport-territory economic relationship, based on the assumption that the transport system is a pre-requisite for the development of industrial and tourist activities. With this in mind, the course deals with the problems that arise in the study of the four main modes of transport, with the further objective of outlining the theoretical state of the art of this research field.

In more detail, the following topics are discussed: 1) Transport historical and geographical dimension - (Economy and transport in the twentieth century; The global development of transport; Congestion: consequence of the imbalance between modes); 2) Transport regulations - (Community legislation, Italian legislation, transport infrastructure as a natural monopoly, regulation of the infrastructure market as an agency problem, the natural monopoly structure, deliberative democracy and transport regulation); 3) Costs of transport systems - (opportunity costs, shadow prices, sunk costs, external costs, classification of transport costs, trends in transport costs, joint costs and associated costs in the provision of transport services; General cost of transport, costs of transport safety); 4) The analysis of the infrastructural supply - (Economic nature of the transport infrastructures; Infrastructural equipment: concept and purpose; The transport networks; Network economics; Infrastructure capacity analysis); 5) The maritime transport system - (The maritime transport market, The containerized maritime transport, The capacity of a port infrastructure, The analysis of port competitiveness, The operational costs of the maritime transport service, Perspectives of development of the Italian and European port); 6)
The railway transport system - (Italian railway transport, the network as a natural monopoly, the effects of the liberalization of railway transport, the de-regulation and liberalization, the costs of rail transport, the other transport systems with restricted driving); 7) The road transport system - (Roads, road transport, effects of upgrading urban transport infrastructure, an economic analysis of road congestion, market failures in road use and correction policies; Private cost, social cost of the road system); 8) Air transport systems - (Fixed installations in air transport; Air transport between regulation and deregulation; Air fleet; Operational capacity management and pricing techniques; Cost structure in the air sector; Chartering services; low cost carriers; the air transport production function); 9) The analysis of the transport demand - (Analysis of the demand for mobility; Models with discrete choice for the estimation of the demand for mobility; Conjoint analysis and estimation of the demand for mobility; Typologies and project of the surveys; The four-stage model for the estimation of the mobility application); 10) Transport pricing - (The allocation function of tariffs and the limits of traditional methods; Charging systems with excellent prices and discrimination; Transport rates, Ramsey of dynamic price regulation); 11) Evaluation of investments in the transport sector - (Analysis and experimentation of investments in the transport sector, Cost-Benefit Analysis (ACB), Evaluation of extra market assets, Multi criteria analysis).

Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M. (2023). Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight. Edward Elgar, UK. (Capitoli - 1,2,3,8,11,15, 16, 19, 21,23)

Recommended
Economia e politica dei sistemi di trasporto, 2008, Fabio Carlucci,Andrea Cirà, Franco Angeli, Milano.

The evoltuion of economic theories on international economic relatuions will be followed since the 18th century until now, underlining the relationship of evolving theories with major facts and policies.

A specific programme in english will be agreed with english-speaking students.

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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian cooperation)
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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian 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-state 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
The environmental/climate issues in the international negotiations and multi-level cooperation strategies; focus on the right to water
PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies (environment/climate; humanitarian/emergency cooperation)
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

REQUIRED READINGS:
1) UNDP, Human Development Annual Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/2020/2021-2022 (http://hdr.undp.org/) - Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019/2023; 2022 Special Report on Human Security 2022 free choice of one Report (including the 2024 forthcoming edition)
2) 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 (for the complete list, please refer to the Syllabus/website of Professor Carletti - gradually updated). Students should inform about their choice after the mid-term exam.

Students are also required to attend to the following webinars for a total amount of 6 hours and to draft a summary of 3 pages maximum: https://hlpf.un.org/2023 https://hlpf.un.org/2023/vnr-labs / https://hlpf.un.org/2023/other-events (also including the forthcoming 2024 session)

Part One: Theories and Concepts. What is Political Violence - Radicalisation and Violent Extremism - Movement Studies and the problem of Political Violence - Radicalisation and Terrorism Studies and the problem of Terrorism. Part Two: topics, issues and methdological approches. Alt Right, Far-Right and Cospiracy Theories - Environmentalism and Political Extremism - New Trends of Current Jihadism - Gender and Terrorism - Incel Mouvement - Violent Radicalisation and Prisons.

Attending students:
- Orsini A, Teorie sociologiche classiche e contemporanee, Torino, UTET 2021 [JUST CHAPTERS: 9 E 12].
- Antonelli F., Radicalizzazione, Milano, Mondadori 2021.
- Selected papers by the professor.

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Non-attending students:
- Orsini A, Teorie sociologiche classiche e contemporanee, Torino, UTET 2021 [JUST CHAPTERS: 9 E 12].
- Pilati K., Movimenti sociali e azioni di protesta, Bologna, il Mulino 2018.
- Antonelli F., Radicalizzazione, Milano, Mondadori 2021.
- Marinone L., Antonelli F. (eds.), How to Explain Radicalisation? Comparing the Drivers of Far-Right, Far-Left, Separatism and Religious Extremism, Mimesis International, 2022.
- Selected papers by the professor.

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 COURSE PROGRAMME -

- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontological and epistemological approaches
- The psychological foundation of the fruition of fundamental rights: self-respect, self-trust and self-esteem
- The struggles for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflict: the analysis of society as a theory of justice
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathological turn
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and the free market: the sphere of consumption, labour markets and environmental sustainability
- Human rights in contemporary ethical debates
- Moral reflection, rights and legislation
- Rights and duties
- The challenges of our time

This course is taught in Italian.

1) HONNETH, Axel, "Il diritto della libertà. Lineamenti per un’eticità democratica", trad. C. Sandrelli, Codice Edizioni, Torino 2015 (fino a pagina 308).

2) MILL, John Stuart Mill, Sulla libertà (testo inglese a fronte), a cura di G. Mollica, Bompiani, Milano 2000 (ISBN 978-88-4529-072-5). Alteranativly, the following edition is also admissible: MILL, John Stuart, Saggio sulla libertà, trad. S. Magistretti, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2023 (ISBN 978-88-4283-256-0)

3) GALEOTTI, Anna E., “Hate Speech: un dibattito lungo due decenni” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 3-17 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

4) BESUSSI, Antonella, “Hate Speech: una categoria inattendibile” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 39-54 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

The course aims at providing students and students with tools for understanding the contemporary history of Latin America and current dynamics in the region.
Particular attention will be paid to the following topics:

Nationalism
Populisms and neo-populisms
Latin American Cold War
Cuban revolution and revolutionary cycle
Liberation theology
Counter-revolution, Doctrina de Seguridad Nacional
Military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts
Plan Condor and Transnational repression
Processes of internal "enemy" construction
Desaparición forzada
Democratic transitions and peace processes
Justicia transicional and politics of memory
Migration and exile
Violence, crime, drug trafficking
Native populations and environment
Latin America in the global scenario

Attending students, in addition to the essays provided by the lecturer, will prepare the examination on the following text:

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



Non-attending students will have to study the following texts:

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

2) Francesca Lessa, I processi Condor. La repressione transnazionale e i diritti umani in America del Sud, 24marzo Onlus/Qudulibri 2023 (only Part I)

5) Raffale Nocera, Paolo Wulzer, L' America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Carocci, Roma 2020 (only part I - chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

The course will focus on the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994 and the analysis of the post-genocide period, with a focus on gender-based violence and the difficult process of reconciliation.
It will begin with an analysis of the causes that led to the genocide from the colonial period through the lens of historical and gender anthropology, and then focus on field analysis in the post-genocide period on the themes of justice (gacaca courts), rape, memory and the role of local politics in relation to global dynamics.
An integral part of the course will be the class viewing and anthropological interpretation of some ethnographic documentaries and films.

1. Fusaschi, M 2000, Hutu-Tutsi. Alle radici del genocidio rwandese, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino .

2. Fusaschi, M. (2013). Le silence se fait parole. Ethnographie, genre et superstes dans le Rwanda du post genocide. ARCHIVIO ANTROPOLOGICO MEDITERRANEO, 15(2), 29-40 (article in Open access)

3. Fusaschi, M. (2014). Verba docent, et exempla ? Elementi per un’etnografia delle com/memorazioni del genocidio dei Tutsi del Rwanda. AFRICHE E ORIENTI, 3, 49-63.

4. Fusaschi, M. (2015). Politiche della confessione e de-centralizzazione della giustizia: i tribunali gacaca nel Rwanda del post-genocidio. PAROLECHIAVE, 53, 163-170

5. Fusaschi, M. (2015), Forme incorporate del non-essere. Violenze e politiche sessuali in Rwanda in M. Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropologiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Roma, Cisu, pp. 55-80.

6. Fusaschi, M., Pompeo, F., (2023). Presentismi e rievocazioni testimoniali delle genocidarie rwandesi. Un altro genere di memorie?. SCIENZA & POLITICA, XXV(68), 143-160 [10.6092/issn.1825-9618/17744] (article in Open access).

Per chi non ha mai sostenuto un esame di discipline Mdea01 è obbligatoria la lettura di :
F. Pompeo, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino ed. 2018 (non precedenti).

The objective of the course is to provide students with the basic information to understand Middle East history from the advent of Islam to the contemporary era. Particular attention will be dedicated to Ottoman Palestine and the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the end of the course, students will have acquired the necessary knowledge to understand contemporary political processes and will be able to discuss historiographical concepts and debates.
The course is dived in three modules:
1. Mohammada and the spread of Islam; Europe and the Ottoman Empire (1500-1700).
2. 1800: Colonialism and Imperialism; The development of Sionism; WWI. The British mandate in Palestine and its consequences.
3. The birth of Middle Eastern States; The establishment of the State of Israel; the Nakba.
4. Arab-Israel wars (1948-73); Nasser and Arab nationalism; Decolonization: the case of Algeria; The revolution in Iran (1978).

1. Massimo Campanini, Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, il Mulino, 2020 or James Gelvin, Storia del Medio Oriente moderno, Einaudi (any edition).

2.Albert Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi. Da Maometto ai nostri giorni, Mondadori. Selected chapters (available on Moodle).

3. Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Einaudi, 2016. Selected chapters (available on Moodle).

Introduction: from Kievan Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First Modernisation of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of a Great Power; The long Russian 19th century from the Napoleonic wars to the reforms of Alexander II; The Russia of Nicholas II: The contradictions of an impetuous and disorderly development; The First World War and the end of a world; The Bolshevik revolution, its origins and affirmation; The Russian civil wars and the origins of the Soviet state; The NEP, the rise of Stalin, Collectivisation, industrialisation and the birth of Stalin's USSR; The Great Terror; The Comintern, Communist parties and traditional foreign policy; The Second World War; Victory and the birth of a superpower; The Cold War: The USSR and the West; Chhrushchev and the 20th Congress of the PCUS; The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; The impossible reform of the system: Gorbachev between perestroika and glasnost'; The end of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the age of turbulence; A new strongman? Putin the new Russia and its wars: ambitions and contradictions of a regime.

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

3) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi, dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci.

for non-attending students: P. Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi

The course, divided in two modules (Module 1: Multicultural American Literature; Module 2: Asian American Writers) 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.

Alexie, Sherman. “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2017 (excerpts).
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25.
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.
Hirahara, Naomi. “The Chirashi Covenant”, in Los Angeles Noir 2. The Classics (Ed. by Denise Hamilton). New York: Akashic Books, 2011, 144-156.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Craydon (UK): Picador, 1977 (excerpts).
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
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. “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 20-33.

The course focuses on the history of relations between Europe and East Asia in the contemporary period. Particular attention will be paid to the historico-political interactions between China and Japan with Europe from the second half of the twentieth century to current times. The analysis of the factors and of the distinctive elements that were generated during the years of the Cold War between the three actors will facilitate the identification of lines of continuity and discontinuity in the current and broader context of globalization. The main objective of the course will be to suggest the appropriate interpretative categories for understanding the dynamics that characterize the evolution of the interactions between the European space and the new geo-political and geo-economic pivot of the global order.

Hong Zhou, "China-EU Relations. Reassessing the China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership", Springer 2017;
Oliviero Frattolillo, "Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations. From the Cold War to the Post-bipolar Years", Routledge 2013.

The course deals with the History of the Relations between Europe and the US in the 20th century through the study of US foreign policy and the relations with the European powers, with particular reference to the first half of the 1900s and the Cold War. At the end of the course students will be able to critically read some essential aspects of the Transatlantic Relations in what goes by the name of "American century". Starting from an analysis of the establishment of the United States as an great power, the Spanish-American war of 1898, Wilson's politics in the first world war, and the experience of the USA with Europe during the rise of the Nazi-fascist regimes the Second World War, the course arrives then to face the crucial point of the Cold War. The course will, therefore, deals with both the confrontation with the Soviet Union and the politics of the blocs, as well as the construction of the EU and the transformation of the American attitude towards a geopolitical entity initially viewed favorably. Particular attention will also be given to the issue of political and cultural interaction during the Cold War: some lessons will therefore be devoted to the history of protest movements in the United States and Europe between the 1950s and the 1980s. Finally, the question of the "Americanization" of Europe and the historiographical debate on the role of the United States on the continent in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War will be addressed.

Text book:

Nolan, Mary. The Transatlantic Century Europe and America, 1890-2010. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.

Books for presentations and final paper:

1. Campus Mario, L'Italia, gli Stati Uniti e il piano Marshall. 1947-1951, Laterza, 2008.

2. Del Pero Mario, L'alleato scomodo: gli USA e la DC negli anni del centrismo (1948-1955), Carocci, 2001.

3. Del Pero, Mario, and Federico Romero. Le Crisi Transatlantiche: Continuità E Trasformazioni. Storia E Letteratura, 2007.

4. Di Nolfo Ennio, Il mondo atlantico e la globalizzazione, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2014.

5. Johnston, Seth A. How NATO Adapts Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2017

6. La Feber, Walter, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Vol. II. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

7. Lundestad, Geir, The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

8. Maccarini Roberto, Dalla neutralità alle trincee. Gli Stati Uniti e la Prima guerra mondiale, Carocci, 2024.

9. Pretelli Matteo,Soldati e patrie. I combattenti alleati di origine italiana nella Seconda guerra mondiale, Il Mulino, 2023

10. Rynning Sten, NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance, Yale University Press, 2024

11. Sayle, Timothy, Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.

12. Schmitz, David, The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940, Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

13. Sloan, Stanley R. Defense of the West NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2016.

Introduction:
Angeli A., Salvini S., “Introduzione” e “Note Tecniche” in Popolazione e sviluppo nelle regioni del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Demographic transition:
Natale M. (a cura di), Economia e popolazione, F. Angeli, Milano, 2002, cap. 2, § 2.3, La transizione demografica, pp. 57-64.
Nobile A., Modernizzazione e transizione demografica. Il cammino della popolazione europea nel XIX secolo, in T. Bonazzi, D. Fiorentino, A. Nobile (a cura di), Nazionalizzazione e modernità, Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2014, pp. 151-167.
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. IV, La demografia contemporanea verso l’ordine e l’efficienza, pp. 147-198
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.
Population Ageing:
Reynaud C., L’invecchiamento demografico: situazione, determinanti, conseguenze e soluzioni, Dispense, 2017, 23 pp.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Population ageing in Europe: facts, implications and policies, 2014 Cap 2 e cap 4 pp. 15-26 e pp. 47-54
https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/1e7549b4-2333-413b-972c-f9f1bc70d4cf
developing countries population:
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. V, La popolazione dei paesi poveri, pp. 199-262
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 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.

The China population:
Farina P., La via cinese alla transizione demografica: dal controllo alla libera scelta, relazione presentata alle VIII Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione, 2-4 febbraio 2009, 20 pp.
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.
IOM, World Migration Report 2022: Chapter 2 - Migration and Migrants: A Global Overview. https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-chapter-2
The deographic future:
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. VI, Il futuro, pp. 263-328.

Non-attending students must study these topics in depth:

students of AMMINISTRAZIONI E POLITICHE PUBBLICHE
Rosina A., Il futuro non invecchia. Ed. Vita e Pensiero. Pg 23 -67
De Santis G. Popolazioni e sistemi di welfare in Golini A. (ed.) Il futuro della popolazione mondiale, Bologna il Mulino, pp. 119-144

Students of STRATEGIE CULTURALI PER LA COOPERAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO
Livi Bacci M., Il Pianeta Stretto, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2015, cap. IV pp. 69-86, cap VIII ed epilogo pp. 141-163.
Unicef, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality UN Report 2021 pag 12-19
https://childmortality.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/UNICEF-2021-Child-Mortality-Report.pdf
Un Population division World Population prospects 2022 pag 3-11
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/wpp2022_summary_of_results.pdf

Angeli A., Salvini S., “Introduzione” e “Note Tecniche” in Popolazione e sviluppo nelle regioni del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Natale M. (a cura di), Economia e popolazione, F. Angeli, Milano, 2002, cap. 2, § 2.3, La transizione demografica, pp. 57-64.
Nobile A., Modernizzazione e transizione demografica. Il cammino della popolazione europea nel XIX secolo, in T. Bonazzi, D. Fiorentino, A. Nobile (a cura di), Nazionalizzazione e modernità, Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2014, pp. 151-167.
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. IV, La demografia contemporanea verso l’ordine e l’efficienza, pp. 147-198
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.
Reynaud C., L’invecchiamento demografico: situazione, determinanti, conseguenze e soluzioni, Dispense, 2017, 23 pp.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Population ageing in Europe: facts, implications and policies, 2014 Cap 2 e cap 4 pp. 15-26 e pp. 47-54
https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/1e7549b4-2333-413b-972c-f9f1bc70d4cf
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. V, La popolazione dei paesi poveri, pp. 199-262
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
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.
Farina P., La via cinese alla transizione demografica: dal controllo alla libera scelta, relazione presentata alle VIII Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione, 2-4 febbraio 2009, 20 pp.
Wang F., Baochang G., Yong C., The End of China’s One-Child Policy, Studies in Family Planning, 47, 1, 2016, pp. 83-86.
Guarneri, A. Le migrazioni internazionali, Dispense, 2010, 23 pp.
IOM, World Migration Report 2022: Chapter 2 - Migration and Migrants: A Global Overview. https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-chapter-2
Livi Bacci M., Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2018, cap. VI, Il futuro, pp. 263-328.


Materiale didattico aggiuntivo per i non frequentanti
Per gli studenti del corso di laurea AMMINISTRAZIONI E POLITICHE PUBBLICHE
Rosina A., Il futuro non invecchia. Ed. Vita e Pensiero. Pg 23 -67
De Santis G. Popolazioni e sistemi di welfare in Golini A. (ed.) Il futuro della popolazione mondiale, Bologna il Mulino, pp. 119-144
Per gli studenti del corso di laurea STRATEGIE CULTURALI PER LA COOPERAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO
Livi Bacci M., Il Pianeta Stretto, Il Mulino, Bologna, nuova edizione 2015, cap. IV pp. 69-86, cap VIII ed epilogo pp. 141-163.
Unicef, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality UN Report 2021 pag 12-19
https://childmortality.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/UNICEF-2021-Child-Mortality-Report.pdf
Un Population division World Population prospects 2022 pag 3-11
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/wpp2022_summary_of_results.pdf

The stages and the intellectual debates/influences on European economic governance will be reconstructed in sequential terms, with particular emphasis on the documents that emerged in the most recent debate and future evolution

Masini F. 2022, European Economic Governance. Theories, Historical Evolution, and Policy Proposals, Palgrave-Macmillan + suggested readings during the course

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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian cooperation)
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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian 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-state 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
The environmental/climate issues in the international negotiations and multi-level cooperation strategies; focus on the right to water
PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies (environment/climate; humanitarian/emergency cooperation)
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

REQUIRED READINGS:
1) UNDP, Human Development Annual Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/2020/2021-2022 (http://hdr.undp.org/) - Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019/2023; 2022 Special Report on Human Security 2022 free choice of one Report (including the 2024 forthcoming edition)
2) 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 (for the complete list, please refer to the Syllabus/website of Professor Carletti - gradually updated). Students should inform about their choice after the mid-term exam.

Students are also required to attend to the following webinars for a total amount of 6 hours and to draft a summary of 3 pages maximum: https://hlpf.un.org/2023 https://hlpf.un.org/2023/vnr-labs / https://hlpf.un.org/2023/other-events (also including the forthcoming 2024 session)

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 COURSE PROGRAMME -

- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontological and epistemological approaches
- The psychological foundation of the fruition of fundamental rights: self-respect, self-trust and self-esteem
- The struggles for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflict: the analysis of society as a theory of justice
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathological turn
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and the free market: the sphere of consumption, labour markets and environmental sustainability
- Human rights in contemporary ethical debates
- Moral reflection, rights and legislation
- Rights and duties
- The challenges of our time

This course is taught in Italian.

1) HONNETH, Axel, "Il diritto della libertà. Lineamenti per un’eticità democratica", trad. C. Sandrelli, Codice Edizioni, Torino 2015 (fino a pagina 308).

2) MILL, John Stuart Mill, Sulla libertà (testo inglese a fronte), a cura di G. Mollica, Bompiani, Milano 2000 (ISBN 978-88-4529-072-5). Alteranativly, the following edition is also admissible: MILL, John Stuart, Saggio sulla libertà, trad. S. Magistretti, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2023 (ISBN 978-88-4283-256-0)

3) GALEOTTI, Anna E., “Hate Speech: un dibattito lungo due decenni” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 3-17 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

4) BESUSSI, Antonella, “Hate Speech: una categoria inattendibile” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 39-54 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

The course will focus on the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994 and the analysis of the post-genocide period, with a focus on gender-based violence and the difficult process of reconciliation.
It will begin with an analysis of the causes that led to the genocide from the colonial period through the lens of historical and gender anthropology, and then focus on field analysis in the post-genocide period on the themes of justice (gacaca courts), rape, memory and the role of local politics in relation to global dynamics.
An integral part of the course will be the class viewing and anthropological interpretation of some ethnographic documentaries and films.

1. Fusaschi, M 2000, Hutu-Tutsi. Alle radici del genocidio rwandese, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino .

2. Fusaschi, M. (2013). Le silence se fait parole. Ethnographie, genre et superstes dans le Rwanda du post genocide. ARCHIVIO ANTROPOLOGICO MEDITERRANEO, 15(2), 29-40 (article in Open access)

3. Fusaschi, M. (2014). Verba docent, et exempla ? Elementi per un’etnografia delle com/memorazioni del genocidio dei Tutsi del Rwanda. AFRICHE E ORIENTI, 3, 49-63.

4. Fusaschi, M. (2015). Politiche della confessione e de-centralizzazione della giustizia: i tribunali gacaca nel Rwanda del post-genocidio. PAROLECHIAVE, 53, 163-170

5. Fusaschi, M. (2015), Forme incorporate del non-essere. Violenze e politiche sessuali in Rwanda in M. Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropologiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Roma, Cisu, pp. 55-80.

6. Fusaschi, M., Pompeo, F., (2023). Presentismi e rievocazioni testimoniali delle genocidarie rwandesi. Un altro genere di memorie?. SCIENZA & POLITICA, XXV(68), 143-160 [10.6092/issn.1825-9618/17744] (article in Open access).

Per chi non ha mai sostenuto un esame di discipline Mdea01 è obbligatoria la lettura di :
F. Pompeo, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino ed. 2018 (non precedenti).

The module examines the history of human migration, focusing mostly on the early modern and modern periods. Students will learn about structural aspects of migration, different types of migration and migratory dynamics linked to globalisation processes. Departing from case studies students will critically engage with broader issues such as: the difference between forced and free migration, the relationship between migration and (de)colonisation processes and the changes in the acceptance policies during the 20th century. Part of the module will focus on migration across the Mediterranean in a diachronic perspective, addressing the political and economic causes of the phenomenon.
On completion of this module students will have developed a critical understanding of the different types of migration, its causes and its socio-economic consequences.

A reading list will be provided in week 1.

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.

6 CFU Program:
Egidio Ivetic, I Balcani dopo i Balcani. Eredità e identità, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015
Oliver Jens Schmitt, I Balcani nel Novecento. Una storia postimperiale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2021

Students enrolled in the previous system (8 CFU exam) are invited to contact the professor to arrange supplementary readings.

Part I - General introduction. Theory of the European Constitution and constitutional principles of the Union
- The idea of a European Constitution and European constitutional law. The European constituent process
- The thesis of the European democratic deficit and the question of the "European Demos"
- The stages of European integration: from "Ventotene" to Lisbon
- The Lisbon Treaty in the light of multilevel constitutionalism. The strengthening of the European constitutional heritage and the constitutional traditions common to the Member States
- European citizenship, European representative democracy and the European political party system.

Part II - The institutional system of the Union and the sources of European law
- The European form of government: general principles
- The European Parliament and the role of national parliaments
- The reform of the Council system
- The European Commission, the President of the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
- Principles relating to European sources
- European legislative procedures
- European law and national laws

Part III - European protection of fundamental rights
- The judicial system of the European Union (structure and principles)
- The Union's jurisdictions
- The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights
- European fundamental rights and domestic law

- P. Costanzo, L. Mezzetti, A. Ruggeri, Lineamenti di diritto costituzionale dell'Unione Europea, Torino, Giappichelli, latest edition. (Chapters 7 and 8 excluded).
P. Scarlatti, Temi di diritto costituzionale dell'Unione europea, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2023. (two essays by choice from Part One, and one from Part Two).
- Consultation of european fundamental legal texts (TEU, TFEU, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, European Convention on Human Rights, etc.) is required. A collection of these texts is available in P. Scarlatti (a cura di), Codice essenziale di diritto dell'Unione europea, Roma, Aracne, 2011.

Please refer to the syllabus on the course's website: https://digitalhumanities.site/syllabus

- What is Digital Humanities? Can it be defined?
- The history of Digital Humanities.
- What is ‘data’?
- Forms of data and data-sets.
- Data cleaning and manipulation.
- Presenting data. Data analysis.
- Reconsidering data manipulation. Missing data.
- Data visualization: history, methods, and tools.
- Text analysis and topic modeling; possibilities and drawbacks.
- Algorithms of textual analysis.
- Infographic: A history of data graphics.
- Introduction to HTML and CSS.
- Concepts of web design.
- Digital maps.
- GIS and digital gazetteers.
- Introduction to AI: From the first models to machine learning.
- Deep machine learning.
- An introduction to artificial neural networks.

The materials are listed in the syllabus: https://digitalhumanities.site/syllabus

Introduction to R e R Studio. Importing data. Basic graphs. Basics of descriptive data analysis. Linear models: analysis of variance and regression. Interactions and transformations, Generalized linear models: logistic regression and Poisson regression. Time series analysis: temporal autocorrelation and linear models with ARMA errors. Spatial statistics: spatial autocorrelation and linear models with SAR and CAR errors. Panel data: random effects and generalized linear mixed effects models.

Eric D. Kolaczyk , Gábor Csárdi (2014) Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R. Springer

The course will focus on the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994 and the analysis of the post-genocide period, with a focus on gender-based violence and the difficult process of reconciliation.
It will begin with an analysis of the causes that led to the genocide from the colonial period through the lens of historical and gender anthropology, and then focus on field analysis in the post-genocide period on the themes of justice (gacaca courts), rape, memory and the role of local politics in relation to global dynamics.
An integral part of the course will be the class viewing and anthropological interpretation of some ethnographic documentaries and films.

1. Fusaschi, M 2000, Hutu-Tutsi. Alle radici del genocidio rwandese, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino .

2. Fusaschi, M. (2013). Le silence se fait parole. Ethnographie, genre et superstes dans le Rwanda du post genocide. ARCHIVIO ANTROPOLOGICO MEDITERRANEO, 15(2), 29-40 (article in Open access)

3. Fusaschi, M. (2014). Verba docent, et exempla ? Elementi per un’etnografia delle com/memorazioni del genocidio dei Tutsi del Rwanda. AFRICHE E ORIENTI, 3, 49-63.

4. Fusaschi, M. (2015). Politiche della confessione e de-centralizzazione della giustizia: i tribunali gacaca nel Rwanda del post-genocidio. PAROLECHIAVE, 53, 163-170

5. Fusaschi, M. (2015), Forme incorporate del non-essere. Violenze e politiche sessuali in Rwanda in M. Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropologiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Roma, Cisu, pp. 55-80.

6. Fusaschi, M., Pompeo, F., (2023). Presentismi e rievocazioni testimoniali delle genocidarie rwandesi. Un altro genere di memorie?. SCIENZA & POLITICA, XXV(68), 143-160 [10.6092/issn.1825-9618/17744] (article in Open access).

Per chi non ha mai sostenuto un esame di discipline Mdea01 è obbligatoria la lettura di :
F. Pompeo, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino ed. 2018 (non precedenti).

Having as a background today's theories of subjectivity and political action, the course aims to critically and meta-critically analyze the relationships between mind, language and the state of advancement of information technologies given the "digital revolution". In the first part of the course we will examine the following topics: possible solutions of the mind-body problem; human and artificial intelligence; algorithmic rationality; intentionality of perception and action; language functions; language and meaning; to know and to interpret; free will and citizenship rights; ontology of power.In the second part of the course we will examine the following topics: philosophy and technology; politics and technology; anthropology and technology; reason, passion and the digital life; political responsibility and artificial intelligence; the post-heideggerian critique of technology.

1) SEARLE, J.R., Il mistero della realtà. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2019 (ISBN 978-88-3285-070-3)

2) BERTOLASO, M. e MARCOS, A., Umanesimo tecnologico. Una riflessione filosofica sull' intelligenza artificiale. Carocci, Roma 2023 (ISBN 978-88-290-2083-6)

The first part of the course illustrates the connection between technology and international affairs in history and conceptualizes the role of technology especially IT (Information Technology), through the analysis of different theoretical approaches. The second part of the course analyzes how states produce "technological power" and how they compete internationally. It focuses first of all on the link between technology and politics, and in particular on the concept of "innovation" and "innovation ecosystems", as well as on the fundamental dimensions of innovation in relation to the nature of modern technology. The main form of international competition in the realm technology will also be discussed.
Finally, the third part of the course has a more empirical character. After analyzing some of the most important emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, 5G and quantum computing) and the related implications for national and international security, the course proceeds to examine the strategies implemented by the European Union to ensure sovereignty and independence, as well as to compete with other powers in these areas and an examination of how emerging technologies and intelligence innovations were employed in the initial stages of the conflict surrounding the invasion of Ukraine.

1. Introduction

2. Technology and International Relations
John Krige & Kai Henrik Barth, ‘Science, Technology, and International Affairs’, Osiris, 21/1 (2006), Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs, 1-21.
Stefan Fritsch, ‘Technology and Global Affairs’, International Studies Perspectives, 12/1 (February 2011), 27-45.

3. Technology and International Affairs: analytical framework
Geoffrey Herrera, Technology and International Transformation (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006), 13-45.

4. Technological Change and the International System
Daniel W. Drezner, ‘Technological Change and International Relations’, International Relations 33/2 (2019) 286–303.

5. Power and IT Technology
J.P. Singh, Information Technologies and The Changing Scope of Power and Governance (New York: SUNY Press, 2002).
James Lewis, Technology and Power, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2022.

6. Politics and Innovation: Innovation Ecosystems
Mark Zachary Taylor, An International Relations Theory of Technological Change (Working Paper July 2005).

7. the dimensions of Innovation
Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli, ‘Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet. Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage’, International Security 43/3 (Winter 2018/19), 141–189

8. Competition: Defining Tech Standards
Walter Mattli & Tim Buthe, ‘Setting International Standards: Technological Rationality or Primacy of Power?’, World Politics 56/1 (2003), 1-42.

9. Competition and Networks
Harry Farrell & Abraham Newman, ‘Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion’, International Security 44/1 (2019), 42-79.

10. the Invisible Competition: Intelligence and Conflict in Cyberspace
‘Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest’, Texas National Security Review September 17, 2020

11. 5G and national security
James A. Lewis, How 5G Will Shape Innovation and Security A Primer (Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2018)

12. Artificial Intelligence and international Security
AA.VV. Artificial Intelligence and International Security (Washington DC: CNAS, 2018).
Congressional Research Service, Artificial Intelligence and National Security (November 2020).

13. UE
Ulrike Franke, José Ignacio Torreblanca, ‘Geo-Tech Politics: Why Technology Shapes European Power’, ECFR Policy Brief (July 2021).
EU Parliamentary Research Service, Key Enabling Technologies for Europe's Technological Sovereignty (Bruxelles: EUPRS, 2021).

14. UE
Francesca Ghiretti, Technological Competition: Can the EU Compete with China? (Roma: Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2021).
Jean-Pierre Darnis, The European Union between strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty: impasses and opportunities (Paris: Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, 2021)

15. Digital Middle Powers
Alice Pannier (ed.), “The Technology Policies of Digital Middle Powers”, Études de l’Ifri, Ifri, February 2023, 50-83.

16. Russia
Dominik P. Jankowski, “Russia and the Technological Race in an Era of Great Power Competition”, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

17. Case Study: Innovation, Intelligence and War in Ukraine
Intelligence & War In Ukraine, War on the Rocks

18. Exam

John Krige & Kai Henrik Barth, ‘Science, Technology, and International Affairs’, Osiris, 21/1 (2006), Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs, 1-21.
Stefan Fritsch, ‘Technology and Global Affairs’, International Studies Perspectives, 12/1 (February 2011), 27-45.
Geoffrey Herrera, Technology and International Transformation (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006), 13-45.
Daniel W. Drezner, ‘Technological Change and International Relations’, International Relations 33/2 (2019) 286–303.
J.P. Singh, Information Technologies and The Changing Scope of Power and Governance (New York: SUNY Press, 2002).
James Lewis, Technology and Power, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2022.
Mark Zachary Taylor, An International Relations Theory of Technological Change (Working Paper July 2005).
Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli, ‘Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet. Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage’, International Security 43/3 (Winter 2018/19), 141–189
Walter Mattli & Tim Buthe, ‘Setting International Standards: Technological Rationality or Primacy of Power?’, World Politics 56/1 (2003), 1-42.
Harry Farrell & Abraham Newman, ‘Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion’, International Security 44/1 (2019), 42-79.
‘Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest’, Texas National Security Review September 17, 2020
James A. Lewis, How 5G Will Shape Innovation and Security A Primer (Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2018)
AA.VV. Artificial Intelligence and International Security (Washington DC: CNAS, 2018).
Congressional Research Service, Artificial Intelligence and National Security (November 2020).
Ulrike Franke, José Ignacio Torreblanca, ‘Geo-Tech Politics: Why Technology Shapes European Power’, ECFR Policy Brief (July 2021).
EU Parliamentary Research Service, Key Enabling Technologies for Europe's Technological Sovereignty (Bruxelles: EUPRS, 2021).
Francesca Ghiretti, Technological Competition: Can the EU Compete with China? (Roma: Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2021).
Jean-Pierre Darnis, The European Union between strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty: impasses and opportunities (Paris: Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, 2021)
Alice Pannier (ed.), “The Technology Policies of Digital Middle Powers”, Études de l’Ifri, Ifri, February 2023, 50-83.
Dominik P. Jankowski, “Russia and the Technological Race in an Era of Great Power Competition”, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Intelligence & War In Ukraine, War on the Rocks

Course Structure
The economy is rapidly evolving, leading to radical changes in the structure of many industrial sectors, which require a solid theoretical foundation for understanding. Therefore, the course is structured into three sections. In the first part, a modern approach to industrial economics will be offered, using tools from game theory. A comprehensive overview will be provided, covering the functioning of various markets. The topics will be systematically explained at the appropriate level of abstraction and generality typical of economic analysis, enriched with numerous examples drawn from real-world economics. The second part focuses on software and music as the two information goods industries that have undergone the most significant recent changes and therefore have dominated public debate. Since the digital economy has given rise to electronic intermediation, the course also considers the impact of e-commerce and intermediation on physical goods markets and the new copyright issues they raise. Finally, the third part of the course will be dedicated to the space economy: it is now evident that the exploration of deep space is becoming increasingly central in all countries, with the proliferation of private actors. The growth of space infrastructure is driving the creation of new services and the development of an increasing number of applications related to meteorology, energy, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, maritime, aviation, and urban development, creating new forms of economy that have direct implications for society. Moreover, space is, and is increasingly becoming, a strategic domain for defense, security, climate change, and connectivity. Therefore, the dynamics of the space economy market and the potential need for new regulations will be presented. The course will be a mix of theoretical analysis and case studies.

Calendar and Topics

Week 1 (Chapter 1 of the textbook and slides)
Introduction to Regulation Theory:
1. Market structure
2. Rent seeking
3. Capture theory
Competition and Monopoly: the two extremes of market performance
Further reading:
- Bianco, M., Giacomelli, S., & Rodano, G. (2012). Competition and regulation in Italy. Banca d'Italia. Questioni di Economia e Finanza, Occasional papers #123

Week 2 (Chapter 5 and 6)
Monopoly Power in Theory and Practice: Price Discrimination
Further reading:
- Arenson, K. W. (1997). "Fordham University to Give Tuition Discounts to Freshmen Who Commute." New York Times, October 22, A18.
- Leslie, P. (2004). Price Discrimination in Broadway Theater, The RAND Journal of Economics, 35(3), 520-541.

Week 3 (Chapter 7)
Oligopoly and Strategic Interaction: Introduction to Game Theory
Further reading:
- Darlin, D. (2005). Falling Costs of Big-Screen TVs to Keep Falling. New York Times, August 20.
- Morrison, S. A., Winston, C., Bailey, E. E., & Carlton, D. W. (1996). Causes and consequences of airline fare wars. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, 85-131.
- Maynard, M. (2002). Yes, It Was a Dismal Year for Airlines. Now the Bad News, NY Times.

Week 4 (Chapter 10)
Networks and Regulation Policies
Further reading:
- Niels, G., & Ralston, H. (2021). Two-sided market definition: some common misunderstandings. European Competition Journal, 17(1), 118-133.
- Alt, R. (2022). Electronic Markets on platform dualities. European Competition Journal, 17(1), 118-133.
- Gautier, A., & Lamesch, J. (2021). Mergers in the digital economy. Information Economics and Policy, 54, 100890.

Week 5 (Material distributed by the instructor, available on the course Moodle platform)
Special Topics:
- File sharing and music sales
- Copyright in the digital age
- Bilateral Markets and Electronic Intermediaries

Week 6: (Space Economy Commercialization available on Moodle)
Space Economy: from space exploration to the regulation of property rights and collision liability between economic growth and public benefits
Further reading:
- Denis, G., Alary, D., Pasco, X., Pisot, N., Texier, D., & Toulza, S. (2020). From new space to big space: How commercial space dream is becoming a reality. Acta Astronautica, 166, 431-443.
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition, Montjoye, Y., Schweitzer, H., & Crémer, J. (2019). Competition policy for the digital era, Publications Office.
- European Commission, EU Industrial Policy on Space.

Monica Auteri (a cura di) Regolazione e Concorrenza nell'era digitale: Mc Graw-Hill Education, Milano.
ISBN 9781307470765 (Note: This is a text created by McGraw-Hill Education with content drawn from various volumes, assembled for this course. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE ISBN)
2. Articles provided on the dedicated Moodle platform for the course.

The course analyzes a range of issues that are posed by the advent of new technologies and that involve the legal position of the private parties (nature of the assets, ownership, contract, privacy, personal identity, on line tort, inheritance of digital content), with particular reference to the protection of minors online in the digital age.

Diritto privato digitale, a cura di Ettore Battelli, Giappichelli Editore, 2022

The syllabus varies with the credits, as will be clarified at the beginning of the course.

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 a number cases decided by international courts and tribunals.

The syllabus varies with the credits, as will be clarified at the beginning of the course.

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

1. Carlo Focarelli, Costruttivismo giuridico e giurisdizioni internazionali (2nd edn, Milan: Kluwer/Cedam, 2023).
2. Carlo Focarelli, Diritto internazionale – II. Prassi (2012-2019) (Milan: Kluwer/Cedam, 2019), in particular a number of cases 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 (7° ed., Milano: Kluwer/Cedam, 2023), limitatamente ai seguenti paragrafi: §§ 5-10, 15-17, 24-25, 30-36, 41-42, 76, 81, 106-118, 142-168.

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.

The course is divided into three parts.
The first one is dedicated to Kantian reflection on the relationship between republic and peace, in particular on the role that constitutionalism can play inside and outside the State to guarantee (universal) protection of rights.
Beyond the contextualization of the Kantian project will be evaluated its ability to provide analytic tools also for contemporary democracy.
The second part will show some problematic issues of current democracy, also in its impact on the international system.
The third part is devoted to some of the authors who were fundamental to peace theory, in a historical path aimed at framing peace as a fundamental political good.

1. F. Silvestrini, Il filosofo e lo Stato. Leggere il "Decennio politico" kantiano (1790-1800), IF Press, Roma 2023

2. L. Bonanate (a cura di), Teoria politica e democrazia. Dal passato al futuro, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011 (escluse parti III e V)
Parte I. Dimensioni della teoria politica; Parte II. I grandi temi della teoria democratica; Parte IV. La democrazia al di là dei confini

3. L. Russi, Pensare la pace, a cura di F. Silvestrini e L. Mastrangelo, Di Felice Edizioni, Martinsicuro (TE) 2024 , only pp. 69-159.

The course aims at providing students with a critical thinking on the United States in the last hundred years and of the contemporary world as seen from the American perspective. International studies today entail a good understanding of American culture and history: both because of the nation’s role worldwide and because the new methodologies in cultural and transnational studies developed in the United States, especially in the second half of the 20th century. Therefore, by the end of the course, students will be knowledgeable about the major aspects of U.S. history in the last 150 years both at the domestic and international level. Moreover, they will acquire an understanding of the major methodologies used by American scholars to study their country in transnational and international perspective.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e Impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il Mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, da pag. 159.

Stefano Luconi, Matteo Pretelli, “Nazione di immigrati” o “fortezza America”? Gli Stati Uniti e le minoranze etniche nel XXI secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024.

The Constitution of the USA: at the beginning of classes, the instructor will provide the indications of an online copy

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

- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Revision
6) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

Required readings:

1) Makoto Iokibe, The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan, Routledge 2010;
2) Rebecca E. Karl, China's Revolutions in the Modern World, Verso Books 2020;
3) Michael Yehuda, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (Fourth and Revised Edition), Routledge 2019;
4) Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-Chool Ha et al., Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia, Routledge 2022;
5) Oliviero Frattolillo, A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, Routledge 2023.

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 COURSE PROGRAMME -

- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontological and epistemological approaches
- The psychological foundation of the fruition of fundamental rights: self-respect, self-trust and self-esteem
- The struggles for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflict: the analysis of society as a theory of justice
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathological turn
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and the free market: the sphere of consumption, labour markets and environmental sustainability
- Human rights in contemporary ethical debates
- Moral reflection, rights and legislation
- Rights and duties
- The challenges of our time

This course is taught in Italian.

1) HONNETH, Axel, "Il diritto della libertà. Lineamenti per un’eticità democratica", trad. C. Sandrelli, Codice Edizioni, Torino 2015 (fino a pagina 308).

2) MILL, John Stuart Mill, Sulla libertà (testo inglese a fronte), a cura di G. Mollica, Bompiani, Milano 2000 (ISBN 978-88-4529-072-5). Alteranativly, the following edition is also admissible: MILL, John Stuart, Saggio sulla libertà, trad. S. Magistretti, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2023 (ISBN 978-88-4283-256-0)

3) GALEOTTI, Anna E., “Hate Speech: un dibattito lungo due decenni” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 3-17 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

4) BESUSSI, Antonella, “Hate Speech: una categoria inattendibile” in «Biblioteca della libertà», vol. 54, n. 224, 2019, pp. 39-54 (the article is available in the section FILES of the Team TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI AA2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS. In the case of denied access to the platform TEAMS and for any difficulties in acquiring the article in question, please, contact the teacher promptly)

Part One: Theories and Concepts. What is Political Violence - Radicalisation and Violent Extremism - Movement Studies and the problem of Political Violence - Radicalisation and Terrorism Studies and the problem of Terrorism. Part Two: topics, issues and methdological approches. Alt Right, Far-Right and Cospiracy Theories - Environmentalism and Political Extremism - New Trends of Current Jihadism - Gender and Terrorism - Incel Mouvement - Violent Radicalisation and Prisons.

Attending students:
- Orsini A, Teorie sociologiche classiche e contemporanee, Torino, UTET 2021 [JUST CHAPTERS: 9 E 12].
- Antonelli F., Radicalizzazione, Milano, Mondadori 2021.
- Selected papers by the professor.

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Non-attending students:
- Orsini A, Teorie sociologiche classiche e contemporanee, Torino, UTET 2021 [JUST CHAPTERS: 9 E 12].
- Pilati K., Movimenti sociali e azioni di protesta, Bologna, il Mulino 2018.
- Antonelli F., Radicalizzazione, Milano, Mondadori 2021.
- Marinone L., Antonelli F. (eds.), How to Explain Radicalisation? Comparing the Drivers of Far-Right, Far-Left, Separatism and Religious Extremism, Mimesis International, 2022.
- Selected papers by the professor.

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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian cooperation)
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 (including environmental and emergency-humanitarian 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-state 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
The environmental/climate issues in the international negotiations and multi-level cooperation strategies; focus on the right to water
PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies (environment/climate; humanitarian/emergency cooperation)
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

REQUIRED READINGS:
1) UNDP, Human Development Annual Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/2020/2021-2022 (http://hdr.undp.org/) - Global Sustainable Development Report 2016/2019/2023; 2022 Special Report on Human Security 2022 free choice of one Report (including the 2024 forthcoming edition)
2) 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 (for the complete list, please refer to the Syllabus/website of Professor Carletti - gradually updated). Students should inform about their choice after the mid-term exam.

Students are also required to attend to the following webinars for a total amount of 6 hours and to draft a summary of 3 pages maximum: https://hlpf.un.org/2023 https://hlpf.un.org/2023/vnr-labs / https://hlpf.un.org/2023/other-events (also including the forthcoming 2024 session)

The evoltuion of economic theories on international economic relatuions will be followed since the 18th century until now, underlining the relationship of evolving theories with major facts and policies.

A specific programme in english will be agreed with english-speaking students.

Short History of Migration
Definition of migration
Data sources
Migration Theories
Globalisation, Development and Migration
Migration and Security
Migration today
Migration in Europe
The European Union and security: frontex

Massimo Livi Bacci, A Short History of Migration (2012), Wiley
https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815285270

The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. 2020 Sixth Edition, the Guilford press
Chapter 1-4 and 10-15

Leonard S., EU border security and migration into the European Union: FRONTEX and securitisation through practices (2010)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09662839.2010.526937?needAccess=true
Chapter. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 e 15

IOM-GMDAC, Global Migration Indicators, 2021 (da p. 10 a 27)
https://publications.iom.int/books/global-migration-indicators-2021

Guide to Enhancing Migration Data in West and Central Africa (da p.17 a 21; da p.31 a 47 escludendo i sottoparagrafi: “Place of previous residence”, “Place of residence at a specified date in the past” e “Specific questions in order to capture emigrant” e tutti i Textbox)
https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/dataguide_layout_101111.pd

Eurostat, Migration and migrant population statistics (full article)
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Migration_and_migrant_population_statistics

IOM, World Migration Report 2022: Chapter 2 - Migration and Migrants: A Global Overview.
https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-chapter-2

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 6 credits program for non-attending students excludes chapters V, VIII XII of the book of S.P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, New York 1996.
Attending students who take the written test will agree the 6 credits program with the teacher.

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 posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
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).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
A. Shatz, "Israel's Descent", London Review of Books, June 2024, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2VDYTvkWvPI5eh_YeF-a_EywKtSNhn0KHJhfYTe0l5VV1K8CHB8-mtvB0_aem_Aa4fZ_8aPf0b9SoRz2UWYOlU2s2YSBLMq3rjTlcSqT0WFHyHnyteanJHgNbuqvSooe_CT-hzW2Uk-unayRal5ZRO(available as a pdf file on the course website)

One of the following:

G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: The Arab uprisings: A decade of struggles - Longreads
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
Corrao FM - Redaelli R (eds), States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region, PalgraveMacMillan, 2021.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
Sune Haugbolle and Mark LeVine (eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World, London, Routledge, 2022.
Marc Owen Jones, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media, Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
Mark LeVine, We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World, University of California Press, 2022.
Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


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

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

The objective of the course is to provide students with the basic information to understand Middle East history from the advent of Islam to the contemporary era. Particular attention will be dedicated to Ottoman Palestine and the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the end of the course, students will have acquired the necessary knowledge to understand contemporary political processes and will be able to discuss historiographical concepts and debates.
The course is dived in three modules:
1. Mohammada and the spread of Islam; Europe and the Ottoman Empire (1500-1700).
2. 1800: Colonialism and Imperialism; The development of Sionism; WWI. The British mandate in Palestine and its consequences.
3. The birth of Middle Eastern States; The establishment of the State of Israel; the Nakba.
4. Arab-Israel wars (1948-73); Nasser and Arab nationalism; Decolonization: the case of Algeria; The revolution in Iran (1978).

1. Massimo Campanini, Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, il Mulino, 2020 or James Gelvin, Storia del Medio Oriente moderno, Einaudi (any edition).

2.Albert Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi. Da Maometto ai nostri giorni, Mondadori. Selected chapters (available on Moodle).

3. Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Einaudi, 2016. Selected chapters (available on Moodle).