PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD POLITICS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in PUBLIC POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE

Disciplinary Sector:

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

RAGIONIERI Rodolfo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Basic concepts of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations.
Modern and Contemporary History.

AF code:

40003903

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral and written (intermediate proof, participation in the seminar and short final dissertation)

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

Students must master the basic concepts concerning the concept of strategy and some of its theoretical declinations. Moreover, they must investigate the challenges put to the suse of military force in the last decades.
More precisely, students must be able to write a short paper on a conceptual or policy issue about the subject of the course.

Contents

Every year the course deals with a relevant subject in world politics. This year the subject is "Complexity and governance in world politics.

Approaches to complexity in world politics. Different forms of complexity. The problem of global governance, Efficacy and legitimacy

Recommended Bibliography

Reference texts for students that attend the lectures will be indicated during the course

For students that do not attend the lectures:
Raffaele Marchetti, La politica della globalizzazione, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2014

One text among:
L. Bozzo (a cura di), Studi di strategia : guerra, politica, economia, semiotica, psicoanalisi, matematica, Egea, Milano 2012.
V. Coralluzzo e L. Ozzano (a cura di), Religioni tra pace e guerra. Il sacro nelle relazioni internazionali del XXI secolo, UTET, Torino 2012.
L. Freedman, The Future of War: A History, Hachette 2017.
J. Baylis, J. Wirtz, C. Gray (eds.), Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, Oxford University Press 2013.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars, written essays

Contacts/More Information

Office hours:

Teaching weeks,
Mo-THu 5-7 pm

or by appointment (email:r.ragionieri@uniss.it)

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