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21810383 -
STRATEGIC STUDIES
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The course aims to introduce the topics of strategy, defense policy and development of military power focusing in particular on the Italian case. The aim of the course is therefore to lead students to familiarize with the concept of “strategy” and with the actors and dynamics of defense policy within states, to inform them about the main issues related to the development of the Armed Forces, and to outline a theoretical framework of reference for the analysis of national defense policies.
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PETRELLI NICCOLÒ
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Strategic Studies
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Instructor: Niccolò Petrelli A.A. 2021/22 C.F.U. 9 What is Strategy? What are its constituent elements? How does it work in practice? How do international actors coordinate national interests and available resources? How is power developed in the international system? The course aims at introducing students to the topics of strategy, power in its various forms, and competiton and conflict in the international system. By familiarizing students with the theory of strategy, the course provides them theoretical tools appropriate for analyzing international relations in a competitive perspective. AT the end of the course the students will be in possess of: 1. Analytical instruments appropriate for analyzing and assessing the dynamics of conflict and competition in international relations. 2. Knowledge of a certain number of empirical cases of national strategy in various areas of the world in the last 30 years. Program Week 1 – The Theory of Stratey: Fundamental Concepts 1. Introduction: The academic discipline of Strategic Studies, Objectives and structure of the course, assessment, teaching approach, materials. 2. The Strategic Approach to international Relations: Strategy as a Science and its fundamental assumptions. Bernard Brodie, ‘Strategy as a Science’ World Politics, Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 1949), pp. 467-488. Michael Howard, ‘The Strategic Approach to International Relations’, British Journal of International Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 1976), pp. 67-75. MLR Smith – Strategic Theory Assumptions. 3. The concept of Strategy: General overview and analytical framework Bob De Wit, Strategy: An International Perspective, 6th Edition (Andover: Cengage, 2017). Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina (Lugano: StartInsight/Europa Atlantica, 2021), 27-29. Edward Luttwak, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2002), levels Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 53-55. Week 2 – The "environment" and content of Grand Strategy 4. Grand Strategy and the “environment” Edward Luttwak, Strategy, scope. Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 30. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies - Anarchy in International Relations. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies - Interdependence in International Organization and Global Governance. 5. The elements of Grand Strategy: Diagnosis, Objectives. Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 31-40. 6. The Elements of Grand Strategy: Means Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 40-47. Week 3 – The Content of Grand Strategy (II) 7. The Elements of Grand Strategy: Time Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 47-51. Andrew Carr, ‘It’s about time: Strategy and temporal phenomena’, Journal of Strategic Studies (2018). 8. The Elements of Grand Strategy: The competitive logic Niccolò Petrelli, La Grande Strategia e il Futuro della Competizione USA-Cina, 47-51. Michael Porter, ‘What is Strategy?’, Harvard Business Review (January-February 1996). 9. The Execution of Grand Strategy Colin Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), 59-74.* Lawrence Freedman, Strategy, A History (Oxford: Oxford UP: 2013). Richard K. Betts, ‘The Trouble with Strategy: Bridging Policy and Operations’, Joint Force Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 2001–02), 23-30. Week 4 – The Process of Grand Strategy 10. Strategy and Contingency Hew Strachan, ‘Strategy and contingency’, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 6 (November 2011), pp. 1281-1296. 11. Change in Grand Strategy Rebecca Lissner, ‘Rethinking Grand-Strategic Change: Overhauls Versus Adjustments in Grand Strategy’, in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021). 12. Analys and Evaluation of Grand Strategy William C. Wohlforth, ‘The Challenge of Evaluating Grand Strategy’, in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021). John Lewis Gaddis, ‘Containment and the Logic of Strategy’, The National Interest, No. 10 (WINTER 1987/8), pp. 27-38. Week 5 – Analysis and Evaluation of Grand Strategy 13. Success in Grand Strategy Hal Brands and Peter Feaver, ‘Getting Grand Strategy Right’, in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021). 14. Grand Strategy in Small States Anders Wivel, ‘The Grand Strategies of Small States’, in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021). Week 6 – Grand Strategy in Practice: Case Studies 15. the Grand Strategy of Brazil Carlos R. S. Milani and Tiago Nery, ‘Brazil’, in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Matias Spektor, ‘Brazil: Shadows of the Past and Contested Ambitions’, in William I. Hitchcock, Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro (eds.), Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2016). 16. the Grand Strategy of the EU Daniel Fiott and Luis Simón, ‘The European Union’ in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Sven Biscop, ‘No peace from corona: defining EU strategy for the 2020s’, Journal of European Integration, 42/8 (2020), 1009-1023. 17. Russia's Grand Strategy Celine Marangé, ‘Russia’ in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Fyodor Lukyanov, ‘Russia: Geopolitics and Identity’, in William I. Hitchcock, Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro (eds.), Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2016), Week 7 Grand Straegy in Practice: Case Studies (II) 18. Israel's Grand Strategy Eitan Shamir, ‘Israel’ in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Ariel Levite, ‘Israel: Strategic Vision Adrift’ in William I. Hitchcock, Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro (eds.), Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2016). 19. Iran's Grand Strategy Thierry Balzacq and Wendy Ramadan-Alban, ‘Iran’ in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Kevjn Lim, ‘Iran’s Grand Strategic Logic’, Survival, 62/5 (2020), 157-172 20. China's Grand Strategy Andrew S. Erickson, ‘China’, in Thierry Balzacq, Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski (eds.), Comparative Grand Strategy A Framework and Cases (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019). Oriana Skylar Mastro, ‘Chinese Grand Strategy’, In John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, Jeannie L. Johnson (eds), Strategy in the Contemporary World, 7th edition, (Oxford UP, forthcoming Dec 2021). Week 8 – Presentations 21. US Grand Strategy Hal Brands, Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (Washington DC: Brookings, 2018), cap. 3. 22. Students' Presentations 23. Students' Presentations Week 9 – Presentations 24. Students' Presentations 25. Students' Presentations 26. Students' Presentations Week 10 – Conclusions 27. Conclusions and Exam Review In addition to the readings listed above students that attend the course (at least 2/3 of classe) will have to submit a paper (maximum 5000 words) before December 12 and present on two of the following: Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters (New York: Crown, 2011). Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, Strategy Bites Back (London: Prentice Hall, 2008). Michael Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (New York: The Free Press, 1990), 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11. Please email the instructor for details on teaching materials.
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21810386 -
INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF PEACE
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Da secoli l'umanità aspira alla pace e a soluzioni pacifiche dei conflitti, ma solo negli ultimi secoli la pace è stata percepita come un obiettivo politico raggiungibile: così è diventata concepibile l'idea dell'abolizione della guerra; sono nate associazioni per la pace (e il pacifismo come una sorta di partito di pace) e si sono sviluppate organizzazioni internazionali volte a bandire la guerra e a promuovere le operazioni di mantenimento della pace. Il corso fornisce un'introduzione storica alla questione della pace come uno dei punti nodali della politica contemporanea fino all'inizio del XXI secolo. Il corso è dedicato alla storia internazionale delle idee di pace, dei movimenti di pace e delle istituzioni di pace.
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MORO RENATO
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For centuries mankind has desired peace and a peaceful resolution of conflicts; only in the last few centuries peace has been perceived as an attainable political objective. In this way, the idea of the abolition of war became conceivable, associations dedicated to peace arose (and pacifism was also considered as a kind of peace party) and international organizations were founded, with the aim of banning war and promoting peacekeeping operations.
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The course offers a historical introduction to the theme of peace as one of the focal points of contemporary politics until the beginning of the 21st century. It is dedicated to the international history of peace ideas, peace movements and peace institutions. The course aims to encourage students to think critically on the theme of war/peace in history, focusing on past centuries, but with an introduction to why, during Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern age, the desire for peace and the rejection of war never became a political objective. By the end of the course, students will be able to better comprehend the main aspects of the peace/war debate and the importance and limitations of peace movements and peace institutions in the contemporary world. Furthermore, they will acquire an understanding of the main interpretations and methodologies proposed and used by scholars to analyze the history of peace. The course is taught in English. Introduction: Peace and Historical Research Week 1 Introduction and description of the course. Methodological issues and new approaches: The concept of peace; ‘Peace history’; Pacifism and ‘pacificism’. PART I – The inevitability of war Week 2 Antiquity: Ancient Eastern Civilizations, War and peace in the Bible, Ancient Greece, Rome. The Christian Tradition: Early Christianity and military service: A Christian pacifism?; The Constantinian turn; Augustine’s synthesis. Week 3 The Middle Ages: Islam, Christianity and holy war; the ‘just war’ theory; Christians refuse war (Bogomils, Cathars, Waldensians, Lollards, Taborites, Bohemian and Moravian Brethren). Refusal of war in the age of absolute Monarchies: Erasmus’s humanist irenism, Anabaptist, Memmonite, Anti-Trinitarian Not-Resistance, Quaker ‘peace testimony’. Restraint of war in the age of absolute monarchies: Victoria and Grotius. PART II Peace As a Political Aim Week 4 The idea of a ‘perpetual peace’ (1712-1814): Enlightenment and peace projects; Rousseau; Kant; Revolutionary war and the birth of the ‘friends of peace’. Week 5 Peace and war in the age of nations (1815-1870): Conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, socialism and the peace issue; Moderates and radicals inside peace societies; The Peace Congress Movement and its politicization. Week 6 The age of militarism and pacifism (1870-1914): The birth of pacifism as an international movement for international law and arbitration; Socialist anti-militarism; Tolstoyanism; The difficulties of pacifists and socialists. PART III Total Peace in the Age of Total War Week 7 The failure of peace and a new pacifism (1914-1918): Nationalism and peace; New associations: Women’s International League, Union of Democratic Control, League of Nations Society, No-Conscription Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation. ‘No More Wars’ (1914-1931): Wilsonianism and the League of Nations; Gandhi and nonviolence; A peace mass movement. Week 8 Pacifism and Totalitarianism (1931-1945): Warlike totalitarianisms; A divided peace movement; The Peace Pledge Union; Against fascism and war?. PART IV The Age of Peace Movements Week 9 ‘One World or None’ (1939-1947): the UN; World federalism; A physicists’ anti-nuclear weapons movement; New anti-war constitutions. ‘Does the Dove Fly to East?’ (1947-1953): The communist ‘partisans od peace’; World federalism’s rise and fall; Peace at the core of the Cold War political debate. Week 10 Peace and Protest (1954-1978): Atomic consciousness; the Pugwash movement; The anti-nuclear protest; Churches and peace; ‘Make Love, Not War!’: young culture and the Vietnam War; Peace and revolution; The Peace Research. Missiles and Peace Culture (1979-1989): Eco-Pax; the Transnational peace movement. Week 11 The Peacekeeping Years (1989-2001): UN peace-keeping and its theory; Clinton administration and ‘democratic peace’; Peacekeepers vs. pacifists. War and Peace at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Tomahawks vs. Kalashnikov: A decline of ‘Great Wars’? US Mars vs. EU Venus? Week 12 A final appraisal: Pacifism or pacifisms? Peace and Politics. What results? Policies or politics changed? REQUIRED READINGS:
David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition). REQUIRED WORK FOR NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS (ONLY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENTS) • In English: 1. David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 2. Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Temple Smith, 1978) (or any later edition). 3. One book chosen among the recommended readings 4. Another book chosen among the recommended readings |
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21810387 -
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Through advanced didactics such as seminars, class discussions and presentations of individual research project, this course aims to provide students with the analytical tools necessary for a critical understanding of the evolution of the international system since the late Eighties, especially through of the evolution of the concept of international security. Therefore, particular attention will be given to conflict management and international crises, as well as to the emergence of new forms of threat and finally, the difficulties encountered by national states and international and supranational organizations in forging widespread consensus around the instruments with which to intervene in time of crisis to preserve security and stability.
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CLAVARINO LODOVICA
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The course analyzes the History of International Relations from the mid 1980s till the Obama Administration (with some hints to the more recent years).
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The main topics of the course are: - End of the Cold War - German reunification - Iraq-Kuwait 1990-1991 war and the international reaction - collapse of Jugoslavia - the crisis in Somalia - Rwanda genocide -the crisis in Kosovo - 9/11 attacks and War on Terror - evolution of arms control and challenges related to nuclear weapons The focus of the course will be on the kind of international reactions in each crisis, the behavior of the main players of the international system (national states, organizations and alliances, coalitions, non-state actors) and on the evolution of the threats to the security during the period analyzed (mid 1980s; 1990s, and the first decade of the XXI century). Textbooks compulsory for ALL (attending and non-attending students)
1) Antonio Varsori, Le relazioni internazionali dopo la guerra fredda, 1989-2017 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018) 2) Giuseppe Mammarella, Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la guerra fredda (Bologna: Il Mulino) 3) two short readings, available at the Cartoleria "4 Appunti", via G.Chiabrera (excerpt from the book: Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali // and excerpt from the book: Odd Arne Westad, La guerra fredda globale) -------- ATTENDING students (Frequentanti) In addition to these books (Varsori; Mammarella; and the two short readings), compulsory for all, students attending classes have to study readings (articles and books) assigned by the professor during the course. -------- Students non-attending classes (STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI): In addition to these books (Di Nolfo and Mammarella, compulsory for all), students non attending classes have to CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THREE OPTIONS: 1) ASIA (2 books) - Bill Emmott, Asia contro Asia. Cina, India Giappone e la nuova geografia del potere (Milano: Rizzoli, 2008) and one between the following two: - Barbara Onnis, La Cina nelle relazioni internazionali. Dalle guerre dell' Oppio a oggi (Roma: Carocci, 2011) - or: Sumit Ganguly, Storia dell'India e del Pakistan. Due paesi in conflitto (Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2004), pp. 1-16 -and from 94 to the end 2) STATI UNITI (BOTH books) - Pierre Hassner e Justin Vaisse, Washington e il mondo. I dilemmi di una superpotenza (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004) - New Book: Chollet & Goldgeier, America between the wars. The misunderstood years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror. From 11/9 to 9/11 (2008) 3) ONU - Paul Kennedy, Il Parlamento dell'Uomo. Le Nazioni Unite e la ricerca di un governo mondiale (Milano: Garzanti, 2007) |
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20710665 -
INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTIONS
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The course aims to examine the legal aspects of the settlement of international disputes, as well as the institutional and functional aspects of international courts and tribunals, in particular those operating in the area of human rights protection.
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20710665 GIURISDIZIONI INTERNAZIONALI in Strategie culturali per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo LM-81 FOCARELLI CARLO
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The syllabus varies with the credits, as will be clarified at the beginning of the course.
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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 (only in the 9-credit course). 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 (Milan: Kluwer/Cedam, 2019). 2. For students who have not passed an exam in international law the following textbook is also required in part: Carlo Focarelli, Diritto internazionale (Milano: Kluwer/Cedam, 2021, 6th edn), only paras §§ §§ 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. |
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21810441 -
THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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Today human rights are the dominant moral doctrine for evaluating the moral status of the contemporary geo-political order. In the 20th century a broad consensus has emerged on framing judgment of nations against an international moral code prescribing certain benefits and treatment for all humans. Within many nations, political debates rage over the denial or abuse of human rights. Legal documents to protect human rights have proliferated. The course examines the philosophical basis and content of the doctrine of human rights. It assesses the contemporary significance of human rights, charts the historical development of the concept of human rights, beginning with a discussion of the earliest philosophical origins of the bases of human rights and culminating in some of most recent developments in their codification. It analyses also the formal and substantive distinctions philosophers have drawn between various forms and categories of human rights, the justifications of their claims, and the main criticism currently addressed to them.
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MAIOLO FRANCESCO
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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.
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CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME - PART I – Historical background, methodological approaches, perspectives and major issues - Introduction and course description; theory of human rights and its historical background; ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights - Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of discourse. Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of the anti-foundational critique - Identity, authenticity, recognition and otherness PART II – The theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth - Situating Honneth; Hegelian roots; the fabric of justice - The struggle for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflicts - The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life - The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively - Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships - Autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice and the market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability - The ‘We’ of democratic will-formation; Organized self-realization: paradoxes of individualization - The work of negativity; the ‘I’ in ‘We’: recognition as driving force of group formation; recognition and ideology This course is taught in Italian. • Honneth, A., Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2011), trans. J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4). In addition one article made available during the course.
N.B. with a view to the final exam students may skip the section (in the Italian edition ONLY) from page 358 to page 481. |
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21810436 -
WAR IN THE GLOBAL WORLD
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Conflicts have marked the whole of human history from the very beginning. However, modernity has changed the nature and meaning of war and has been deeply marked by it. The course aims precisely to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the new characters assumed by modern conflicts and their effects even of long duration in multiple dimensions, from international and global to existential, placing in particular the focus of its attention the two world wars.
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SCARANTINO ANNA
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The first part of the course goes over the key moment of transformation of the nature of war, from the ancient age to the present times, and the most meaningful steps in the evolution of the thinking that accompanied it in the Western world. The second part focuses on its 1900s characteristics. Specifically the age of the "total wars" and until the most recent reflections on the so-called "new wars", after 1945.
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- J.J. Sheehan, L’età post-eroica. Guerra e pace nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 - T. Detti (ed. by), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, 2017 For the students enrolled in the former course of History of war and military institutions, having to take the 8 CFU exam: the programme is the same and in addition: - G. L. Mosse, Le guerre mondiali. Dalla tragedia al mito dei caduti, Laterza, 1990 |
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21810388 -
ECONOMIA E POLITICA DELLO SVILUPPO
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The course aims to provide the main tools for acquiring the economic analysis dimension of development processes. From this point of view, the following educational objectives are set in the specific: frame development in its general definition and in its various meanings; foster the learning of the main theoretical contributions related to development economics models, both in the field of traditional theories and with reference to innovative or critical contributions with respect to the "mainstream"; encourage the learning of some key issues of development policy, with main, but not exclusive, reference to economic issues; supply the students with individual tools for economic and social analysis of issues relating to development (indices, calculations, numerical analyzes); commit the students (attending and non-attending) to the direct reading of scientific literature (articles, essays, papers, etc.); invite the students (attending students) to write a paper on a topic of their choice concerning development policy.
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21810424 -
THEORY OF CONFLICTS AND PEACE PROCESSES
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The course aims to provide students with the basic theoretical knowledge and analysis methodologies necessary for the understanding of conflictual processes as well as for peace-keeping and peace-building processes, with particular attention to the social, cultural and institutional components. Students will also deepen their knowledge on the sociological aspects of complex emergencies, state failure and failed states and they will analyze the dynamics behind genocide, ethnic cleansing and gender crimes.
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21810437 -
FREE-CHOICE ELECTIVES
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The activities "chosen by the student" (art.10, paragraph 5, letter a of Ministerial Decree 270/2004) are courses that the student can select from all the master's degree courses offered by the Department of Political Science and from courses in agreement with other departments or universities/external bodies, for a maximum of 12 ECTS .
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21810434 -
THESIS
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The thesis is a substantial piece of research which demonstrates a grasp of a particular sub-field, a set of design and methodological issues, and the ability to develop and sustain an independent line of argument.
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21810417 -
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
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The course provides the general principles and means of European environmental law in the light of public and constitutional law. Furthermore, the course mainly intends to develop a critical approach of the matter through a review of case-law and multilevel sources of environmental law.
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SCARLATTI PAOLO
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Part I. Introduction to European environmental law
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- The legal concept of “environment” - Environment and plurality of legal systems - Environmental law and European constitutional law - The institutional framework of the European Union (brief outline) - The sources of European environmental law Part II. The fundamental principles of European environmental law - Environmental law and European integration - Environmental protection in the European Treaties in force. The Treaty of Lisbon - The principle of sustainable development - Environmental protection in the light of subsidiarity and solidarity - Principle of integration and fundamental principles of the Union's environmental policies - European decision-making processes concerning environmental law Part III. The relationship between European environmental law and national law - Environmental protection and division of powers between the European Union and the Member States - Environmental protection under the Italian Constitutional System - The transposition of EU environmental legislation into domestic law In addition to the materials provided by the lecturer, students are required to attend to the relevant parts of the recommended textbooks.
Students should also be in full possession of the fundamental texts of European law, such as, for example, P. Scarlatti (ed.), Codice essenziale di diritto costituzionale dell'Unione europea, Roma, Aracne, 2011. |
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21810414 -
HISTORY AND POLITICS OF ENERGY
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The course will focus on the political history of energy and on the environmental consequences of the emergence of different energy regimes from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present time.
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20710641 HISTORY AND POLITICS OF ENERGY in Storia e società LM-84 GARAVINI GIULIANO
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We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
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Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries. This course is taught in English. For each student:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book) For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Podobnik): - Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book) For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik): - A choice of one text among the "reference books" Reference books: Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat" Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back" Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s" Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century" Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths" Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable" Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe" Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE" Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" Per Hogselius, "Red Gas" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Daneil Yergin, "the New Map" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" John McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Luigi Piccioni, La cronologia di "altronovecento" dell'ambiente e dell'ambientalismo 1853-2000 Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radical. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Vaclav Smil, "Energy and Civilization: A History" Ven De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge" |
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21810441 -
THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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Today human rights are the dominant moral doctrine for evaluating the moral status of the contemporary geo-political order. In the 20th century a broad consensus has emerged on framing judgment of nations against an international moral code prescribing certain benefits and treatment for all humans. Within many nations, political debates rage over the denial or abuse of human rights. Legal documents to protect human rights have proliferated. The course examines the philosophical basis and content of the doctrine of human rights. It assesses the contemporary significance of human rights, charts the historical development of the concept of human rights, beginning with a discussion of the earliest philosophical origins of the bases of human rights and culminating in some of most recent developments in their codification. It analyses also the formal and substantive distinctions philosophers have drawn between various forms and categories of human rights, the justifications of their claims, and the main criticism currently addressed to them.
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21810441 TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 A - Z MAIOLO FRANCESCO
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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.
(reference books)
CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME - PART I – Historical background, methodological approaches, perspectives and major issues - Introduction and course description; theory of human rights and its historical background; ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights - Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of discourse. Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of the anti-foundational critique - Identity, authenticity, recognition and otherness PART II – The theory of autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice by Axel Honneth - Situating Honneth; Hegelian roots; the fabric of justice - The struggle for recognition and the moral grammar of social conflicts - The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life - The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively - Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships - Autonomy, vulnerability, recognition and justice and the market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability - The ‘We’ of democratic will-formation; Organized self-realization: paradoxes of individualization - The work of negativity; the ‘I’ in ‘We’: recognition as driving force of group formation; recognition and ideology This course is taught in Italian. • Honneth, A., Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2011), trans. J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4). In addition one article made available during the course.
N.B. with a view to the final exam students may skip the section (in the Italian edition ONLY) from page 358 to page 481. |
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21810413 -
GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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The course focuses on the intersection of international politics, energy security, and the environment. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, theory of international relations, and area studies, the course wants to highlight the relevance of energy issues for the evolution of the international system, by studying how in the past they caused wars, alliances, and the constant realignment of the foreign policies of the great powers. At the same time, the course will investigate how in the future the search for energy security must be reconciled with the growing challenges posed by climate change and environmental protection. The expertise provided by the course is particularly useful for operating in such fields as resources management and environmental issues.
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21810415 -
THE EU IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
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The course aims at enhancing the students’ knowledge and understanding of the roots and evolution of global environmental governance, as well as at providing them with the methodological tools to analyze them from an historical and political perspective. At the same time, the course investigates the role of the European Union in shaping global environmental governance and the implications of the international discourse on sustainable development in European politics, from the late 1960s to the present. Moving from the beginnings of the EC/EU environmental policy, the course deals with the evolving concepts of energy security and transition in Europe’s debates, at the national, intergovernmental and supranational level; it analyses the rise of the European sustainability agenda, across different EC/EU policy areas; and focuses on the intersection between the United Nations’ multilateral dimension of environmental governance and the EU’s. Students will be engaged in studying the complexity of such challenges as climate change and the depletion of global commons with a view to their international politics consequences. They will also be provided with the analytical tools to understanding the development of multilateral and regional institutions, as well as governmental and non-governmental actors; and to assessing the EU’s political and economic response to such challenges in the last few decades.
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The course is structured in 4 parts (9 CFU):
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1) An overview of the European Union’s history, politics and institutional developments: from the European Community of the 1970s to the EU of the 2000s. 2) Environmental challenges and politics in an international history perspective, from the Stockholm Conference of 1972 to the Paris Agreement of 2015: conservation; global threats; multilateral negotiations; and the rise of climate change in international politics. 3) The roots and development of the EU environmental policy within the context of its energy policy, external relations and foreign policy. 4) Students’ short papers and presentations (see list of recommended readings/bibliography). Non-attending students, instead of preparing their short essay and presentation, will have to study all required readings, namely, 1. Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017; 2. Jordan Andrew, Adelle Camilla (eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (third edition), London, Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-305; 3. Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016, pp. 1-102; 153-267; 293-333. 1. Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017;
2. Jordan Andrew, Adelle Camilla (eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (third edition), London, Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-305; 3. Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016, pp. 1-102; 153-267; 293-333. |
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REGULATORY ECONOMICS, ENERGY, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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The course aims to offer the conceptual, theoretical and institutional bases to understand the functioning of energy markets and to grasp the great change underway in the energy world.
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21810418 -
ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS
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Being able to choose the most appropriate statistical model for the analysis of environmental phenomena.
Getting familiar with the statistical environment R for model estimation and goodness of fit evaluation. Being able to communicate efficiently the model output.
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LAGONA FRANCESCO
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Software R-studio and R: installation and main features. Project creation in R studio. First step with R: elementary operations, descriptive statistics, graphs. Statistical inference refresher. Sampling distribution, confidence intervals and tests. Environmental data. Maximum likelihood estimation. Linear models: parameter estimation, model selection and goodness of fit. Generalized linear models: parameter estimation, model selection and goodness of fit. Logistic regression. Poisson regression.
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Carsten Dormann (2020) Environmental Data Analysis: An introduction with Examples in R, Springer
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SUSTAINABILITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSPORT
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This course focuses on the sustainability of development patterns. Environmental quality, economic vitality and equity are discussed with a particular emphasis on the critical role played by transportation. In fact, transport is global and fundamental to economy and society, so effective action requires strong international cooperation.
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CONTENT
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PART I – TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Definition of sustainability: link between transport, environment and development Preserving resilient transport to climate change Wide reforms on a low-carbon path Financing issues for mitigation and adaptation PART II – URBAN FREIGHT AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE Relevance of sustainable urban freight transport Stakeholders involved and their role Types of intervention measures, innovative solutions and best practices Behavioural analysis and planning This course is taught in English. Required readings:
Block, R., Kopp, A., Limi, A. (2013). Turning the right corner : ensuring development through a low-carbon transport sector. Directions in development: environment and sustainable development. Washington DC; World Bank. Curtis C. (2020). Handbook of Sustainable Transport. Research Handbooks in Transport Studies series. Edward Elgar, USA. Macharis C., Melo S. (2011). City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport. Multiple Perspectives. Edward Elgar, UK. Articles published in High-Quality Scientific Journals will be provided during the course |
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21810437 -
FREE-CHOICE ELECTIVES
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The activities "chosen by the student" (art.10, paragraph 5, letter a of Ministerial Decree 270/2004) are courses that the student can select from all the master's degree courses offered by the Department of Political Science and from courses in agreement with other departments or universities/external bodies, for a maximum of 12 ECTS .
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THESIS
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The thesis is a substantial piece of research which demonstrates a grasp of a particular sub-field, a set of design and methodological issues, and the ability to develop and sustain an independent line of argument.
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