Programme

This course focusses on analysing the transformation on international private governance on of cooperation efforts among nation states from the Concert of Nations, to the expansion of colonialism, to the interwar period with the creation of the League of Nations, to the end of WWI with the formation of the UN system, to the phase that goes by the name of "second globalization" or "neoliberal globalization" that started in the 1980s.
great attention will be devoted to the tensions between State and non-State actors, to the nature of the various international organizations and their changes overtime, to the competition and conflict between different forms of internationalism, of ideas of "development and human rights.
At the end of the class students are supposed to have acquired a critical understanding of the international organizations and their evolution, of the conflicts over international economic and financial cooperation, over human right, development aid and international trade.

Core Documentation

Compulsory textbooks are:
• Carla MENEGUZZI ROSTAGNI, "Politica di potenza e cooperazione. L'organizzazione internazionale dal Congresso di Vienna alla globalizzazione"

One text among the following:
• Sara LORENZINI, "Una strana guerra fredda: Lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud"
• Lorenzo MECHI, "L'Organizzazione Internazionale del Lavoro e la ricostruzione europea. Le basi sociali dell'integrazione economica (1931-1957)"
• Simone PAOLI, "Frontiera Sud: L'Italia e la nascita dell'Europa di Schengen"
• Dani RODRIK, "La globalizzazione intelligente"
• Silvia SALVATICI, "Nel nome degli altri: Storia dell'umanitarismo internazionale"

Reference Bibliography

A useful book is: Mark MAZOWER, "Governing the World. The Rise and Fall of an Idea"

Type of evaluation

There will be one oral exam at the end of the class

Programme

This course focusses on analysing the transformation on international private governance on of cooperation efforts among nation states from the Concert of Nations, to the expansion of colonialism, to the interwar period with the creation of the League of Nations, to the end of WWI with the formation of the UN system, to the phase that goes by the name of "second globalization" or "neoliberal globalization" that started in the 1980s.
great attention will be devoted to the tensions between State and non-State actors, to the nature of the various international organizations and their changes overtime, to the competition and conflict between different forms of internationalism, of ideas of "development and human rights.
At the end of the class students are supposed to have acquired a critical understanding of the international organizations and their evolution, of the conflicts over international economic and financial cooperation, over human right, development aid and international trade.

Core Documentation

Compulsory textbooks are:
• Carla MENEGUZZI ROSTAGNI, "Politica di potenza e cooperazione. L'organizzazione internazionale dal Congresso di Vienna alla globalizzazione"

One text among the following:
• Sara LORENZINI, "Una strana guerra fredda: Lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud"
• Lorenzo MECHI, "L'Organizzazione Internazionale del Lavoro e la ricostruzione europea. Le basi sociali dell'integrazione economica (1931-1957)"
• Simone PAOLI, "Frontiera Sud: L'Italia e la nascita dell'Europa di Schengen"
• Dani RODRIK, "La globalizzazione intelligente"
• Silvia SALVATICI, "Nel nome degli altri: Storia dell'umanitarismo internazionale"

Reference Bibliography

A useful book is: Mark MAZOWER, "Governing the World. The Rise and Fall of an Idea"

Type of evaluation

There will be one oral exam at the end of the class