Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

The Course is aimed at analysing the global and regional IOs phenomenon along the lines of their institutional and operative features in the perspective of the inter-governmental cooperation as well as the human rights protection. The last topic has a proper cross-cutting impact in both universal and regional institutional systems. The substantial notions are fundamental for accessing the diplomatic or IOs official carrier or to work in public and private institutions as well as EU and international NGOs.
The Course is developed into two main sections, devoted respectively to the institutional and operative features of global and regional IOs, and to the promotion and protection of human rights within the universal and regional institutional systems and related monitoring mechanisms (e.g. UN, CoE, EU, OSCE, OAS, African Union) and frameworks (Latin America, Middle East, Asia), as well as some thematic case-studies (e.g. LGBTI rights, counter-terrorism).

For students who attend the Course:
- Anja Mihr, Mark Gibney (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Human Rights, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014
- Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, and Ian Johnstone (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press, 2017
The books are available at the Library of the Department; e-books are partially available accessing to the Library Platform of the Department (sba.uniroma3.it) and on the Moodle Platform of Professor Carletti. The Professor will give more details about their study during the lectures as well as information about ALTERNATIVE books for the Part II of the programme.
For students not attending the Course: the programme is the same provided for students attending the Course.

Comparative Analysis

Influential Cultural and Political Elements in Legal Systems
Impacts of Historical Transformations on Law

Current Legal Systems:
Common Law
Civil Law
Mixed Systems
Traditional Systems

Fundamental Legal Principles in Legal Systems
Analysis of Legal Cases: Contracts, Civil Liability, Human Rights

the textbooks mentioned during the lectures

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014 - second edition (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (the full book).
4) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level.

Module I
Week 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Week 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Week 3: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Week 4: Le sfide politiche degli Stati Uniti contemporanei. Le elezioni del 2024: prospettive e temi principali.

Module II
Week 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Week 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Week 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: da Obama a Biden. Il 6/1/21.

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.
Francesco Clementi e Gianluca Passarelli, Eleggere il Presidente: Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.
La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (Qualunque edizione)

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One book among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Breve storia degli afroamericani, Bologna, Marsilio, 2022.

Arnaldo Testi, Stelle e strisce. Storia di una bandiera, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Non attending students must prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the to the 2000s. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- Cold War and Latin America
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.

Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.




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

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza

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

The course aims to provide the basic economic tools to analyze and understand the main determinants of the development of a given area or country. The development problem is dealt with both from a developing country perspective as well as considering the least developed areas of the developed countries. The territorial component of development is analyzed through the treatment of economic models and specific cases. In addition, the course addresses the topic of sustainable development by focusing on the main issues shared at the international level.

The course foresees 4 modules.

Module I - Factor Accumulation
Module II - Productivity
Module III - Government and Income Inequality
Module IV - Sustainable development

Crescita economica. Problemi, dati e metodi di analisi, David N. Weil, Hopeli, Milano, 2007.

L' era dello sviluppo sostenibile, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano, 2015.

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the to the 2000s. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- Cold War and Latin America
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.

Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.




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

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza

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

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level.

Module I
Week 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Week 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Week 3: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Week 4: Le sfide politiche degli Stati Uniti contemporanei. Le elezioni del 2024: prospettive e temi principali.

Module II
Week 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Week 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Week 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: da Obama a Biden. Il 6/1/21.

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.
Francesco Clementi e Gianluca Passarelli, Eleggere il Presidente: Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.
La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (Qualunque edizione)

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One book among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Breve storia degli afroamericani, Bologna, Marsilio, 2022.

Arnaldo Testi, Stelle e strisce. Storia di una bandiera, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Non attending students must prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014 - second edition (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (the full book).
4) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

The Course is aimed at analysing the global and regional IOs phenomenon along the lines of their institutional and operative features in the perspective of the inter-governmental cooperation as well as the human rights protection. The last topic has a proper cross-cutting impact in both universal and regional institutional systems. The substantial notions are fundamental for accessing the diplomatic or IOs official carrier or to work in public and private institutions as well as EU and international NGOs.
The Course is developed into two main sections, devoted respectively to the institutional and operative features of global and regional IOs, and to the promotion and protection of human rights within the universal and regional institutional systems and related monitoring mechanisms (e.g. UN, CoE, EU, OSCE, OAS, African Union) and frameworks (Latin America, Middle East, Asia), as well as some thematic case-studies (e.g. LGBTI rights, counter-terrorism).

For students who attend the Course:
- Anja Mihr, Mark Gibney (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Human Rights, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014
- Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, and Ian Johnstone (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press, 2017
The books are available at the Library of the Department; e-books are partially available accessing to the Library Platform of the Department (sba.uniroma3.it) and on the Moodle Platform of Professor Carletti. The Professor will give more details about their study during the lectures as well as information about ALTERNATIVE books for the Part II of the programme.
For students not attending the Course: the programme is the same provided for students attending the Course.

Comparative Analysis

Influential Cultural and Political Elements in Legal Systems
Impacts of Historical Transformations on Law

Current Legal Systems:
Common Law
Civil Law
Mixed Systems
Traditional Systems

Fundamental Legal Principles in Legal Systems
Analysis of Legal Cases: Contracts, Civil Liability, Human Rights

the textbooks mentioned during the lectures

The course aims to provide the basic economic tools to analyze and understand the main determinants of the development of a given area or country. The development problem is dealt with both from a developing country perspective as well as considering the least developed areas of the developed countries. The territorial component of development is analyzed through the treatment of economic models and specific cases. In addition, the course addresses the topic of sustainable development by focusing on the main issues shared at the international level.

The course foresees 4 modules.

Module I - Factor Accumulation
Module II - Productivity
Module III - Government and Income Inequality
Module IV - Sustainable development

Crescita economica. Problemi, dati e metodi di analisi, David N. Weil, Hopeli, Milano, 2007.

L' era dello sviluppo sostenibile, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano, 2015.

The program is divided into two parts: the first relates to the fundamental themes and concepts of the sociology of communication; the second concerns the main theories of mass communication, paying particular attention to the role and social effects of the new media.

Specifically, the following topics will be examined:

- society and mass communication

- main theoretical perspectives

- social effects of new media

- scenarios of contemporary communication

One of the following books to choose from:

- W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Torino, Einaudi, 2014

- B. Chul-Han, Infocrazia. Le nostre vite manipolate dalla rete, Torino, Einaudi, 2023.

- V. Codeluppi, Vetrinizzazioni. Individui e società in scena, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2021

- G. Riva, Fake news. Vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level.

Module I
Week 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Week 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Week 3: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Week 4: Le sfide politiche degli Stati Uniti contemporanei. Le elezioni del 2024: prospettive e temi principali.

Module II
Week 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Week 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Week 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: da Obama a Biden. Il 6/1/21.

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.
Francesco Clementi e Gianluca Passarelli, Eleggere il Presidente: Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.
La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (Qualunque edizione)

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One book among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Breve storia degli afroamericani, Bologna, Marsilio, 2022.

Arnaldo Testi, Stelle e strisce. Storia di una bandiera, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Non attending students must prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014 - second edition (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (the full book).
4) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The program is divided into two parts: the first relates to the fundamental themes and concepts of the sociology of communication; the second concerns the main theories of mass communication, paying particular attention to the role and social effects of the new media.

Specifically, the following topics will be examined:

- society and mass communication

- main theoretical perspectives

- social effects of new media

- scenarios of contemporary communication

One of the following books to choose from:

- W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Torino, Einaudi, 2014

- B. Chul-Han, Infocrazia. Le nostre vite manipolate dalla rete, Torino, Einaudi, 2023.

- V. Codeluppi, Vetrinizzazioni. Individui e società in scena, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2021

- G. Riva, Fake news. Vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.

ITALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM 2023/2024 - 6 CFU

1. Carlo Guarnieri, “Il sistema politico italiano”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2016

2. Gianfranco Pasquino, “I sistemi elettorali”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006 con aggiunta sul Rosatellum del “Manuale elettorale”: http://www.camera.it/temiap/allegati/2018/01/18/OCD177-3269.pdf (per tutti, soltanto la prima parte del manuale elettorale, da pagina 24 a pagina 92)

3. Piero Ignazi , "I partiti politici dal 1948 al 2018", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

4. ITANES, Svolta a destra?, Il Mulino

(I frequentanti saranno esonerati dallo studio del testo di Ignazi e faranno una presentazione in classe basata su materiale relativo ai partiti politici)

SISTEMA POLITICO ITALIANO 2023/2024 - 6 CFU

1. Carlo Guarnieri, “Il sistema politico italiano”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2016

2. Gianfranco Pasquino, “I sistemi elettorali”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006 con aggiunta sul Rosatellum del “Manuale elettorale”: http://www.camera.it/temiap/allegati/2018/01/18/OCD177-3269.pdf (per tutti, soltanto la prima parte del manuale elettorale, da pagina 24 a pagina 92)

3. Piero Ignazi , "I partiti politici dal 1948 al 2018", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

4. ITANES, Svolta a destra?, Il Mulino

Roberta Adelaide Modugno, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Abolizionismo e democrazia nell'Ottocento americano, Rubbettino, 2011

Papers by Roberta Adelaide Modugno, on Moodle

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the to the 2000s. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- Cold War and Latin America
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.

Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.




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

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza

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

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

Nel corso saranno affrontati i seguenti temi: Storia d’Europa e storia dell’idea di Europa – La periodizzazione dell’età moderna – I caratteri originari. Riforme e rivoluzioni, stati e imperi, confessionalizzazione e tolleranza – Genealogie del moderno e paradigma eurocentrico – Storia d’Europa e storia globale – L’idea d’Europa. La genesi storica di un concetto –L’idea di Europa tra storia, geografia e mito – Oriente e Occidente. Barbarie e civiltà – Il concetto di Eurasia – Europa e Russia tra medioevo ed età moderna – “Radici” dell’Europa e identità europea: storia, usi e abusi di un concetto pericoloso – I primi progetti di unione europea in età moderna.

Roberta Adelaide Modugno, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Abolizionismo e democrazia nell'Ottocento americano, Rubbettino, 2011

Papers by Roberta Adelaide Modugno, on Moodle

In the course we will analyse in a reflective manner the relationship between political philosophy and political science on the one hand, and between political philosophy and the history of political thought on the other. This exercise serves the purpose of better situating political philosophy in the context of the political and social sciences in order to grasp its specific epistemological status, and the link with the sphere of historically and culturally given values. This responds to the need to critically reflect on the ways in which politics has been "rationalized" in the context of Western thought, and on the ways that have guided the various attempts at such rationalization. We will focus on the analysis of the questions concerning the nature of "matters of politics" and the determination of the "political good" both in the individual and in the collective sense through the various interpretative grids that constitute the essential reference points on the subject. A series of problems will be analyzed: political order between human nature and the human condition; the question of social justice; authority, power, freedom and obedience; public ethics, the common good, freedom of speech and democracy. The second part of the course is concerned with the critique of power and sovereignty in the thought of Michel Foucault (see the section Testi adottati e bibliografia di riferimento).

1) PORTINARO, Pier Paolo, Il lessico del potere. L'arte di governo dall'antichità alla globalizzazione, Carocci, Roma 2021 (ISBN 978-88-290-0563--5)

2) FOUCAULT, Michel, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), a cura di M. Senellart, trad. it. di M. Bertani, V. Zini, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015 (ISBN 978-88-07-88654-6)

3) MAIOLO, Francesco, Foucault e la sovranità, Aracne Editrice, Roma 2012 (ISBN 978-88-548-5068-2)

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level.

Module I
Week 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Week 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Week 3: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Week 4: Le sfide politiche degli Stati Uniti contemporanei. Le elezioni del 2024: prospettive e temi principali.

Module II
Week 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Week 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Week 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: da Obama a Biden. Il 6/1/21.

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.
Francesco Clementi e Gianluca Passarelli, Eleggere il Presidente: Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.
La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (Qualunque edizione)

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One book among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Breve storia degli afroamericani, Bologna, Marsilio, 2022.

Arnaldo Testi, Stelle e strisce. Storia di una bandiera, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Non attending students must prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014 - second edition (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (the full book).
4) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The course will be divided into three modules:
-In the first module, some crucial thematic issues for socio-juridical change will be addressed: the State; Justice; the penalty; the work; migrations.
- In the second module, crucial thematic issues for socio-political change will be addressed: the role of power, democracy and participation; the role of public administrations; ideologies and political cultures.
- In the third module we will study and analyze the relationships between law, politics and society in the processes of neoliberalization.

G. Campesi, L. Pannarale, I. Pupolizio, Sociologia del diritto, Firenze, Le Monnier (solo i capitoli 1, 3, 6, 7, 9)
F. de Nardis, Sociologia politica. Per comprendere i fenomeni politici contemporanei, Milano, Mc Graw Hill (solo i capitoli 4, 8, 11 e solo dalla Seconda Edizione)
F. Chicchi, A. Simone, La società della prestazione, Ediesse, Roma.
F. Chicchi, A. Simone, Il soggetto imprevisto. Neoliberalizzazione, pandemia e società della prestazione, Meltemi, Milano.
N.B.: PER CHI FA L'ESAME DA 6 CREDITI SI PORTANO SOLO I PRIMI DUE TESTI, PER TUTTI GLI ALTRI L'INTERO PROGRAMMA.

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the to the 2000s. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- Cold War and Latin America
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.

Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.




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

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza

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

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

Nel corso saranno affrontati i seguenti temi: Storia d’Europa e storia dell’idea di Europa – La periodizzazione dell’età moderna – I caratteri originari. Riforme e rivoluzioni, stati e imperi, confessionalizzazione e tolleranza – Genealogie del moderno e paradigma eurocentrico – Storia d’Europa e storia globale – L’idea d’Europa. La genesi storica di un concetto –L’idea di Europa tra storia, geografia e mito – Oriente e Occidente. Barbarie e civiltà – Il concetto di Eurasia – Europa e Russia tra medioevo ed età moderna – “Radici” dell’Europa e identità europea: storia, usi e abusi di un concetto pericoloso – I primi progetti di unione europea in età moderna.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

The course provides the critical notions and tools for the study of the political history of the so-called "century of nationalities", indispensable for the understanding of contemporary Europe. It illustrates the establishment or reconstitution of the nation states in Central and Eastern Europe and the unification process of Germany and Italy. The analysis will embrace the whole "long nineteenth century" (from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War). Necessary introduction to this analysis will be the discussion of the movements of "national rebirth" of a good part of the European peoples. Finally, the unification of Germany and Italy and the establishment of national states in Central and Eastern Europe will be addressed following the progressive crisis and then the collapse of the system of the great multiethnic empires (Austrian, Russian and Ottoman). The use of a comparative method will be continuous in order to find out common features of several national histories but also the peculiarities that differentiate them.

6 CFU Program:
Gian Enrico Rusconi, Cavour e Bismarck. Due leader fra liberalismo e cesarismo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011
Francesco Guida, La Russia e l'Europa centro-orientale 1815-1914, Roma, Carocci, 2014

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

A general knowledge of European history between the late 18th and early 20th centuries is required. It is recommended the use of a Contemporary history handbook.

Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

Comparative Analysis

Influential Cultural and Political Elements in Legal Systems
Impacts of Historical Transformations on Law

Current Legal Systems:
Common Law
Civil Law
Mixed Systems
Traditional Systems

Fundamental Legal Principles in Legal Systems
Analysis of Legal Cases: Contracts, Civil Liability, Human Rights

the textbooks mentioned during the lectures

The course aims to provide the basic economic tools to analyze and understand the main determinants of the development of a given area or country. The development problem is dealt with both from a developing country perspective as well as considering the least developed areas of the developed countries. The territorial component of development is analyzed through the treatment of economic models and specific cases. In addition, the course addresses the topic of sustainable development by focusing on the main issues shared at the international level.

The course foresees 4 modules.

Module I - Factor Accumulation
Module II - Productivity
Module III - Government and Income Inequality
Module IV - Sustainable development

Crescita economica. Problemi, dati e metodi di analisi, David N. Weil, Hopeli, Milano, 2007.

L' era dello sviluppo sostenibile, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano, 2015.

- Introduction to the data analysis
- data matrix
-techniques for analyzing the multivariate data: statistical indices, graphics, distances and similarity, principal component analysis, cluster analysis, classification tree.

MARDIA K. V., KENT J. T., BIBBY J. M. - MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS - ACADEMIC PRESS, 1997

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

The course aims to provide the basic economic tools to analyze and understand the main determinants of the development of a given area or country. The development problem is dealt with both from a developing country perspective as well as considering the least developed areas of the developed countries. The territorial component of development is analyzed through the treatment of economic models and specific cases. In addition, the course addresses the topic of sustainable development by focusing on the main issues shared at the international level.

The course foresees 4 modules.

Module I - Factor Accumulation
Module II - Productivity
Module III - Government and Income Inequality
Module IV - Sustainable development

Crescita economica. Problemi, dati e metodi di analisi, David N. Weil, Hopeli, Milano, 2007.

L' era dello sviluppo sostenibile, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano, 2015.

Syllabus

Part one: General theory
Early and Late Constitutional Genesis of Political Parties; parties in the historical evolution of states and systems of government: parties and forms of government, a party criterion in the classification of forms of government, with particular attention to the realities of France, United Kingdom, United States; parties and classification of state forms.

Part Two: The parties in the constitutional orders of the post-war II period
Introduction to the Italian case: the debate on the Constituent and the art. 49 of the Constitution.
Protected and semi-protected democracies: Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece.
Democracies of Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Republic.
The parties in the multicultural state: the case of the Indian Union.

Part Three: The parties in the Italian republican system
Article. 49 and its enduring inactuation.
The clashes on internal democracy before the judges, in art. 49 unactuated.
The first implementing legislation of 2013-2014, the "statute norm" of Italicum and ongoing reform.
Analysis of the statutes of existing (and past) parties.
The distinctive signs of the parties: regulations and decisions concerning names and symbols.
Party financing: regulatory developments in Italy (and references to foreign experiences).
Discipline of political communication and electoral propaganda.

Part Four: Political Parties at European Level
The formation and consolidation of European political parties.
The ”parliamentarization process".
The Spitzenkandidaten method.
Regulation No. 1141/2014.

Students that will attend the lectures must study:

S. Bonfiglio, G. Maestri, R. L. Blanco Valdés, I partiti politici. Teoria e disciplina, Wolters Kluwer-Cedam, Padova, 2022.

The course provides the critical notions and tools for the study of the political history of the so-called "century of nationalities", indispensable for the understanding of contemporary Europe. It illustrates the establishment or reconstitution of the nation states in Central and Eastern Europe and the unification process of Germany and Italy. The analysis will embrace the whole "long nineteenth century" (from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War). Necessary introduction to this analysis will be the discussion of the movements of "national rebirth" of a good part of the European peoples. Finally, the unification of Germany and Italy and the establishment of national states in Central and Eastern Europe will be addressed following the progressive crisis and then the collapse of the system of the great multiethnic empires (Austrian, Russian and Ottoman). The use of a comparative method will be continuous in order to find out common features of several national histories but also the peculiarities that differentiate them.

6 CFU Program:
Gian Enrico Rusconi, Cavour e Bismarck. Due leader fra liberalismo e cesarismo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011
Francesco Guida, La Russia e l'Europa centro-orientale 1815-1914, Roma, Carocci, 2014

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

A general knowledge of European history between the late 18th and early 20th centuries is required. It is recommended the use of a Contemporary history handbook.

Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

Comparative Analysis

Influential Cultural and Political Elements in Legal Systems
Impacts of Historical Transformations on Law

Current Legal Systems:
Common Law
Civil Law
Mixed Systems
Traditional Systems

Fundamental Legal Principles in Legal Systems
Analysis of Legal Cases: Contracts, Civil Liability, Human Rights

the textbooks mentioned during the lectures