Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology.

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

Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle.

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





Week 2
Women in medieval thought and early modern European thought
The Church Fathers: St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature
Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli


- Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993
- Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical
Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2
- Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6
- Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7


Week 3
- Protofeminism in Venice(XVI -XVII centuries)
- Natural rights against natural authority
- Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model
- John Locke against patriarchy
- Margaret Cavendish (1632-1637)
- Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4
- Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6



Week 4
The State of Nature and Reconstructing a Masculinized Republic: Rousseau
Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft
Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill
- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7
- Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85
- John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Subjection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238
- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter



Week 5
Constructing Liberal Feminism in the US: The 19th Century Women’s Rights Movement
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy: sexual difference feminism and egalitarian feminism.
Movie: “Suffragette”.


- Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281
- From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322
- Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421
- Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652
- Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-70



Week 6
- Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, edited by Susan Moller Okin, Princeton University Press, 1999
In class debate

Week 1
Introduction and description of the course.
Methodology.

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



Week 2
Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle.

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



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

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




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


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


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

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

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

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


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

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







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


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

Week 9
Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy.

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

The course focuses on the most important aspects that security has assumed in the international system since the end of the Second World War. In adopting a historical approach, it intends to offer the students a general survey and understanding of a process that becomes the effect and the producer of frames of political action. The end of the Second World War has been selected as the starting point of analysis, first because it marked the beginning of the era of security studies in the United States and the Western world. As field of studies security, studies developed after the failure of the attempt made at that time to establish an effective collective security within the United Nations. That failure coincided with the beginning of the nuclear era and the Cold War. To the time period of bipolar confrontation is devoted a good deal of the course with the related dynamics concerning nuclear deterrence and proliferation. Despite the end of the Cold War, the security discourse is still looming large in the contemporary international system, not only for the growing risk of nuclear proliferation, but also for the so-called securitization process concerning many international issues, like environment, migration and access to resources. The course, therefore, aims at helping the students historicize the notion of international security and familiarize with the main components of the contemporary international security agenda.
First week:
Course introduction; the evolution of the concept of security; the Second World War as a starting point of analysis; the gradual failure of collective security. Reading: Baldwin’s article
Second week:
The beginning of the nuclear arms race; Eisenhower and nuclear deterrence; RAND and the central role of strategic studies
Third week:
Kennedy and a new strategic doctrine; the gradual setting up of a nuclear order; the importance of arms control for international security. Readings: McGwire’s and Ritchie’s articles
Fourth week:
The 1970s and the technological developments affecting the security discourse; Nuclear proliferation; European security and the importance of human rights; the evolution of security studies
Fifth week:
Arms control in the 1980s and the end of the Cold War; the emergence of human security; the post-Cold War era and its challenges to international security. Readings: chaps. 5, 16, 18 of The Handbook of global security policy and Excerpts of the Human Development Report 1994, Published for the United Nations Development Programme
Sixth week:
The securitization process; the importance of digital technology in the evolution of the security discourse; cyber-security and deterrence dynamics. Readings: chap. 10 of The Handbook of global security policy; M. Williams’ article; article by Madeline Carr and F. Lesniewska; Tor’s article.
Please, note that between the first three weeks and the following last three weeks of the course there will be a week of break. Students of the second year, those who have an 8 credits course, will use the week of break for elaborating on some of the topics approached during the previous weeks.

REQUIRED READINGS:

- Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov (edited by), The Handbook of Global Security Policy, Wiley Blackwell, 2014 – excluding the following chapters: 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 24, 26, 28.
- Mark Mazower, Governing the World. The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2012 – pp. 191-342 (this is a required reading for students without a sound knowledge of the international history between world war II and the late 1970s)

For the in-class discussions, students will have to read the following essays:

- Daniel Abrahams, “From discourse to policy: US policy communities’ perceptions of and approaches to climate change and security,” Conflict, Security & Development, Vol. 19, No. 4, (2019): 323–345.
- Fiona B. Adamson, “Crossing Borders: International Migration and National Security”, International Security, 31: 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 165-199.
- David A. Baldwin, “The Concept of Security”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 23, n. 1, (January 1997), pp. 5-26.
- Madeline Carr and F. Lesniewska, “Internet of Things, cybersecurity and governing wicked problems: learning from climate change governance,” International Relations, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2020), pp. 391–412.
- Excerpts of the Human Development Report 1994, Published for the United Nations Development Programme
- Michael MccGwire, “Deterrence: The Problem- Not the Solution”, International Affairs, Vol. 62, n. 1, (Winter, 1985-1986), pp. 55-70.
- Nick Ritchie, “A hegemonic nuclear order: Understanding the Ban Treaty and the power politics of nuclear weapons,” Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 40, No. 4 (2019): pp. 409-434.
- Uri Tor, “‘Cumulative Deterrence’ as a New Paradigm for Cyber Deterrence,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1-2 (2017): pp. 92-117.
- Michael C. Williams, “Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Dec. 2003), pp. 511-531.


Recommended Readings:

- Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz (edited by), The Use of Force. Military Power and International Politics, sixth edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
- Madeline Carr, “Public-Private Partnerships in National Cybersecurity Strategies”, International Affairs, 92: I (2016), pp. 43-62
- Andrew Cottey, Security in 21st Century Europe, second edition, Palgrave, 2013
- Christopher Daase, “National, Societal, and Human Security: On the Transformation of Political Language”, Historical Social Research, Vol. 35, n. 4, (134), 2010, pp. 22-37
- Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, Daniel J. Sargent (editors), The Shock of the Global. The 1970s in Perspective, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
- Avery Goldstein, “Discounting the Free Ride: Alliances and Security in the Postwar World”, International Organization, Vol. 49, n. 1, (Winter 1995), pp. 39-71
- Hilde Haaland Kramer and Steve A. Yetiv, “The UN Security Council Response’s to Terrorism: before and after September 11, 2001”, Political Science Quarterly, 122: 3 (Fall 2007), pp. 409-432
- Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994
- Geir Lundestad (edited by), International Relations Since the End of the Cold War. New and Old Dimensions, Oxford University Press, 2013
- Voitech Mastny and Zhu Liqun (edited by), The Legacy of the Cold War. Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict, Lexington Books, 2014
- Paul Rosenzweig, Cyber Warfare. How Conflicts in Cyberspace Are Challenging America and Changing the World, Praeger, 2013
- Jan Ruzicka, “Behind the veil of good intentions: power analysis of the nuclear non-proliferation regime,” International Politics, Vol. 55 (2018): pp. 369–385
- Eric Taylor Woods, Robert Schertzer, Liah Greenfeld, Chris Hughes, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, “COVID-19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis: A scholarly exchange,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 26 (2020), pp. 807-825
- Scott M. Thomas, “A Globalized God. Religion’s Growing Influence in International Politics”, Foreign Affairs, Vol 89, n. 6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 93-101
- David S. Yost, “NATO’s Evolving Purposes and the Next Strategic Concept”, International Affairs, 86:2 (March 2010), pp. 489-522.

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Seminar : the construction of the Chinese political identity through the CCP rhetoric in the post-Maoist era
6) Revision
7) Mid-term.

PART II

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

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

This course is taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury.
Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge.
2) Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
3) M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
4) Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.

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

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

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

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

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

This course will provide students with an analytical framework for the study of international trade. It is divided into two main parts. The first considers both the predictions of the Neoclassical trade theory (i.e., the Ricardian Model and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model) and the new trade models with imperfect competition, including the most recent developments related to firm-level evidence. The second one discusses the effects and the political economy determinants of trade policy. International agreements multilateral trade liberalization and on regional trade liberalization will also be discussed. The course considers both the theories and recent empirical works, as well as a discussion of the relevant methodological issues in measurement and estimation.

Outline

Section 1: International trade: stylized facts
- Facts, changes and history of globalization
- International migration flows

Section 2: Trade theories
- The Ricardian Model
- The Specific-Factors Model
- Factor endowments and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
- Movement of labor and Capital
- The New Trade Theories
- Offshoring and Global Value Chain
- Firm Heterogeneity

Section 3: Trade policy
- Import Tariffs and Quotas
- Export subsidies and taxes
- Measuring trade protection
- Non-tariff barriers
- Multilateral trade integration: the World Trade Organization
- Trade policy and the environment

Section 4: Empirical lab sessions
- Trade and trade policies data sources
- Working with trade and trade policies data: the gravity model

R. C. Feenstra and A.M Taylor (2017), International Trade, Forth Edition, Worth Publishers.

The course is offered to all students.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7) Frantz Fanon, "Les damnés de la terre", Paris, La Découverte, 2002 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Course contents
Module I: Specialty Languages
1. Las lenguas de especialidad
Denominaciones, definiciones y características generales
The horizontal dimension: el léxico y la terminología
The vertical dimension: textos, functions and niveles de especialización

2.El lenguaje jurídico-administrativo:
Origen y características generales
El léxico jurídico
Rasgos morfosintácticos
El estilo formulario
Nivel textual
Géneros textuales

4.El lenguaje de los medios de comunicación
Definición, características, funciones tendencias, géneros

5.El leguaje deportivo
Definición, características, tendencias, géneros

6.El leguaje turístico
Definición, origen, características, función, géneros

7.El leguaje advertising
Definición, origen, características, función, géneros

Reference text (Required):
Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci editore, Rome, 2009.

Module II: The political language.
1.El Lenguaje político
1.1. Origen y características
1.2. El léxico político
1.3. The political phraseology
1.4. Emisor y recipient
1.5. El contexto histórico
1.6. The retórica
1.7. Estrategias discursivas
1.8. Political persuasion
1.9. La descalificación y el insult
1.10 Tipologías de discursos: totalitarios, de crisis, de investidura

Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci editore, Rome, 2009.

MESSINA FAJARDO L. A. (2020). El discurso político as art of persuasion and social acción. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Note *: For the 2020-2021 academic year, the topics of the political speeches to be analyzed in the term papers must be agreed with the teacher.

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

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

F. Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker, Dyogenes Verlag
H. Kipphardt, In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rororo (Rowohlt Verlag)
B. Brecht: Leben des Galilei
Erläuterungen Und Dokumente: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker. Reclam Verlag.
Erläuterungen Und Dokumente: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker. Reclam Verlag.

This course is designed to introduce students to the methods, theories, and critiques of reconstructing early modern global and world history. It seeks to familiarize students with the major historiographical debates and definitions surrounding the first phase of intensifying global connections that began in the fifteenth century. The course traces the different ways in which various scholars have analyzed the dramatic expansion of cross-cultural interactions and economic exchange in the centuries leading up to the formalization of the modern nation-state.
By the early seventeenth century, European merchants had established maritime trade networks across the Atlantic Ocean and eastward to India and China. These networks allowed them to purchase furs, tea, sugar, spices, and other luxury goods that were in high demand throughout Europe. In the Americas, European colonists began using large numbers of enslaved Africans to grow labor-intensive crops such as sugar cane and tobacco for export to Europe. Portuguese, and later Dutch, merchants acquired many of these slaves from trading posts on the West African coast. Once the slaves had been sold in the Americas, merchants used the proceeds to purchase local goods to sell in Europe. This circular trade pattern dominated the Atlantic economy until the 1800s. European nations carefully controlled their trade networks to protect them from rival states. The Dutch East India Company, for example, owned its own private army and navy, which was used to defend its trade links with India and Southeast Asia.
Global trade changed patterns of production and consumption around the world and led to the rapid growth and development of England and the Netherlands at the expense of the old colonial powers such as Spain and Portugal. In this course we will examine the growth of global trade networks in the 1600s and assess the political, social, and cultural impact of these networks on the peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Particular attention will be paid to the global circulation of objects and books in the early modern world.

A syllabus with assigned weekly readings will be distributed at the beginning of the course

CONTENT

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.

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

This course is taught in English.

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

The course, divided in two modules (Module 1: Multicultural American Literature; Module 2: Asian American Writers) focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political, and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of literary texts in order to understand the relationship between American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2017 (excerpts).
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding,” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work,” in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Interpreter of Maladies,” in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69.
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”, in Martin, Wendy (Ed.) The Art of the Short Story. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 1167-1181.
Santos, Bienvenido. “Quicker with Arrows”, in Wong, Shawn (ed.) Asian American Literature. A Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York: HarperCollins, 1996, 80-102.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (excerpts).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the lecturer’s departmental teaching webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
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Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


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

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

I. The Premise: Representative institutions in Europe before the State
Political representation in late middle ages: the monarch, the assembly and the function of political consent: Kingdom of Leon and the realms of Crown of Aragon; English representative government. The Italian communes and their representative institutions: the recognition of political will in a citizens' assembly. Representative experiences during the early modern period.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
Marsilius (1324), The defender of the peace
An. (1340 ca.), Manner of Holding Parliament in England,
H.G. Koenigsberger, Monarchies and Parliaments in Early Modern Europe.

II. The Westminster model in England and beyond
Parliamentarism during the Civil War: the confrontation between sovereignity and representation.The powerful parliament: legislative supremacy, controlling the Government. English influence on American experience: the fusion with presidentialism? Parliament's reform during Victorian Age. Enriching political representation: responsibility and publicity.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
H. Parker (1643), The oath of pacification, or, A forme of religious accomodation humbly proposed both to King and Parliament,
Th. Hobbes (1679), Behemoth or The Long Parliament.
E. Burke (1770), Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent.
Ch.J. Fox (1775), The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons.
A. Hamilton, J. Jay, J. Madison (1788), The Federalist Papers.
J.S. Mill (1859), Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform.
W. Bagehot (1867), The English Constitution.

III. The French instance
Parlamentarism (and antiparlamentarism) during the Revolution. National sovereignity or popular sovereignity: the debate after the Revolution. Bourbon restoration and the question of deliberation. The Second Republic and the invention of national representation.The long apprenticeship of parliamentary democracy: the Third Republic.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
J.J. Rousseau (1762), The Social Contract.
M.-J,-A.-N. de Condorcet, Political Writings.
B. Constant (1815) Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments.
F. Guizot (1851), The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe.
A. de Tocqueville (1835-1840), Democracy in America.

IV. The Italian path towards Parliamentarism

Nation building and/or Revolution countering: political representation before 1861. The liberal age and the introduction of parliamentarism. The democratic debate after World War II.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
Civilization and Democracy: The Salvemini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings.
G. Giolitti (1919), Speech at Dronero.
G. Mosca (1933), The Ruling Class.

V. Parliamentarism in the Austrian-German area
Constitutional experiences during the XIX century. “The (quick) rise and fall of Weimar” parliamentarism. (Re)constructing parliamentary democracy after Nazism.

Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
G.W.F. Hegel (1820), The Philosophy of Right.
M. Weber (1917), Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order.
H. Kelsen (1929), The essence and value of democracy. .
J.A. Schumpeter (1942), Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
H. Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy.

VI. Cultures of antiparliamentarism in the XXth century
the transversal culture of anti-parliamentarism in the crisis of the liberal State. Socialist theories of political representation: soviet or parliament? Liberal parliaments under attack. Political representation and totalitarism.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
V.I. Lenin (1919), Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments?.
C. Schmitt (1923), The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.
G. Gentile (1934), Origins and Doctrines of Fascism.
A. Gramsci (1935), Notes 74 and 76 of Notebook 14, in The Prison Notebooks.

Cultures of European Parliamentarism
Two directions of historical analysis: the relation with other EU institutions; the relation with
national parliaments. Representation of European governments and parliaments (1952-1976). Representation of Europeans (1976-1992). Representation of European citizens (1992-2009). The European Parliament after Lisbon (2009-). Representation, citizenship and democracy beyond borders in Europe.
Readings for in-class discussion, excerpts from:
A. Spinelli (1983), Towards the European Union.
J. Habermas 2012), The crisis of European Union. A response.
G. Morgan (2005), The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration.
P. Dann (2003), European Parliament and Executive Federalism.
A. Follesdal, S. Hix, 2006. Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU.

1. Ihalainen, P., Ilie, C., & Palonen, K. (Eds.). (2018). Parliament and Parliamentarism: A
Comparative History of a European Concept. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books (Part I and III)
2. Selinger, W. (2019). Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Ideas in Context), Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
3. Digital resources provided by the teacher