73148 - International Relations of Africa

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)

Course contents

The first part of the course examines the early phase of interaction among African countries after independence and in particular the creation of the Organisation of African Unity. The second part analyses the regionalisation of security in Africa after the end of the Cold War. Relations between Africa and the European Union will be critically scrutinized. The third part of the course examines the creation of the African Union and and the genesis and outcomes of the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

Readings/Bibliography

Reading for students attending classes

A. Pallotti e M. Zamponi, L'Africa sub-sahariana nella politica internazionale, Firenze, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2010.

A. Pallotti, Dossier: Unione Europea e Africa, in Afriche e Orienti, vol. 13, n. 1-2, 2011 (da pagina 5 a pagina 92).

P. Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011.

H. Solomon, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave. 2015.

Reading for students non attending classes

A. Pallotti e M. Zamponi, L'Africa sub-sahariana nella politica internazionale, Firenze, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2010.

E. Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa.From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

A. Pallotti, Dossier: Unione Europea e Africa, in Afriche e Orienti, vol. 13, n. 1-2, 2011 (da pagina 5 a pagina 92).

J. Adésínà, Y. Graham & A. Olukoshi (eds), Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium. The NEPAD Debate, Dakar, CODESRIA, London, Zed Books & Pretoria, UNISA Press, 2006.

P. Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011.

H. Solomon, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave. 2015.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Students can find an Atlas of African History at the information desk of the Library R. Ruffilli and at the Ufficio didattico of the Faculty of Political Sciences "Roberto Ruffilli".

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Office hours

See the website of Arrigo Pallotti