- Docente: Lorenzo Zambernardi
- Crediti formativi: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Lingua di insegnamento: Italiano
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche (cod. 9247)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Obiettivo del corso è fornire una conoscenza avanzata delle principali teorie delle relazioni internazionali contemporanee (costruttivismo, liberalismo, realismo) con particolare riferimento alla sicurezza internazionale. Al termine del corso, lo studente conosce i principali dibattiti interni alla disciplina e le principali questioni di politica internazionale, avendo inoltre sviluppato la capacità di utilizzo degli strumenti analitici necessari per interpretare il funzionamento del sistema internazionale contemporaneo.
Contenuti
This course offers an introduction to the study of some of the major security issues in the contemporary world. In particular, it explores a series of empirical phenomena and themes in light of the most important concepts and theories in international relations theory. Students are expected to learn why countries go to war as well as why groups use terrorism. They will also acquire knowledge on nuclear proliferation, the prospects and pitfalls of military intervention, and on the role of technology and robotics (from nuclear weapons to unmanned drones) in threatening and strengthening the international order. At the end of the course, students are expected to understand the fundamental aspects and the distinctive elements of a variety of security issues in the current world. Finally, students will be able both to examine security threats and to devise the most appropriate policy response.
Testi/Bibliografia
Lezioni:
1) Introduzione
- Simon Leys, 2013, "The Idea of the University", in S. Leys, The Hall of Uselessness, New York Review of Books, pp. 461-464.
- Lorenzo Zambernardi, 2016, “Politics is too important to be left to political scientists,” European Journal of International Relations, 22, 1, 3-23.
2) La sicurezza come concetto multidimensionale
- Emma Rotschild, “What is Security?,” Daedalus, Vol. 124, No. 3, (Summer, 1995), pp. 53-98.
- John Mueller & Mark G. Stewart, “Terrorism and Bathtubs: Comparing and Assessing the Risks”, Terrorism and Political Violence, published online 28 December 2018.
3) La politica di potenza
- Tucidide, “Dialogo tra gli Ateniesi e i Meli,” La guerra del Peloponneso, V, 84-114.
- Machiavelli, Il Principe, qualsiasi edizione.
4) Il sistema internazionale contemporaneo
John Ikenberry, "The end of the international liberal order?", International Affairs, 94: 1 (2018) 7–23.
John Mearsheimer, "Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order", International Security, Volume 43, Issue 4, Spring 2019, pp.7-50.
5) Scontro egemonico?
- Robert Gilpin, 1988, “The Theory of Hegemonic War,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18, 4, 591-613.
- G. Allison, “The Thucydides Trap”, The Atlantic, September 24, 2015.
6) Conflitti armati contemporanei
Pettersson, Therese; Stina Högbladh & Magnus Öberg (2019). Organized violence, 1989-2018 and peace agreements. Journal of Peace Research 56(4).
7) Guerre inter-statali I
- Geoffrey, Blaney, The Causes of War, New York, The Free Press, Ch. 8, 9.
- Azar Gat , “The Changing Character of War”, in Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (eds) The Changing Character of War; available at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.ezproxy.unibo.it/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199596737.001.0001/acprof-9780199596737-chapter-2
8) Guerri inter-statali II
- Steven Pinker, “A History of Violence”, at http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker, fhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
9) Guerre civili I
- Francesco N. Moro "Civil Wars", in Paul Joseph ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Sage 2017.
- Stathis N. Kalyvas, “The Changing Character of Civil Wars, 1800–2009”, in Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (eds) The Changing Character of War, Ch. 11; available at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.ezproxy.unibo.it/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199596737.001.0001/acprof-9780199596737-chapter-12
10) Guerre civili II
Barbara F. Walter, The New New Civil Wars Annual Review of Political Science 2017 20:1, 469-486
11) Mid-Term
- Nessuna lettura
12) Terrorismo
- The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: An Interview with Noam Chomsky. https://monthlyreview.org/2001/11/01/the-united-states-is-a-leading-terrorist-state/.
-D'Alema: "Definire i talebani terroristi è una stupidaggine", HuffPost, 11 settembre 2021; https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/dalema-definire-i-talebani-terroristi-e-una-stupidaggine_it_613c5fdde4b00ff836ecffa6.
- Alex Peter Schmid, “Terrorism: The Definitional Problem,” Case Western Journal of International Law, 36, 2, 2004, pp. 375-419
13) Terrorismo
Erica Chenoweth, Terrorism and Democracy", Annual Review of Political Science 2013, 16:1, 355-378
14) Insurrezioni
- D., Galula, Counterinsuregency Warfare: Theory and Practice, Westport, Praeger, Ch. 1, 7.
15) Counterinsurgency
D. Kilcullen, Counterinsurgency, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 1-13, 165-227.
Lorenzo Zambernardi, "Counterinsurgency's Impossible Trilemma", Washington Quarterly, 33, 3, pp. 21-34.
A. Mack, "Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars", World Politics, 27, 2, 1975, pp. 175-200.
16) Guerra dei droni
- G. Chamayou, Drone Theory, London, Penguin.
17) Genocidio
- Adrian Gallagher, Genocide and its threat to contemporary international order(2013), capitolo 5.
- Martin Shaw, Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World (2013), capitolo 9.
18) The longest war: La guerra in Afghanistan
- M. Barry, Kabul's Long Shadows: Historical Perspectives, Liechtenstein Institute at Princeton, 2011; available at http://www.operationspaix.net/DATA/DOCUMENT/4371~v~Kabuls_Long_Shadows__Historical_Perspectives.pdf
19) L'erosione del potere militare
- E. Luard, The Blunted Sword, New York, New Amsterdam, 1988, pp. 1-24.
20) Esame finale
- Nessuna lettura
Metodi didattici
Lezioni frontali e seminari
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Frequentanti: Due esami scritti in classe di 5 domande a risposta breve.
Non frequentanti:
in presenza: scritto di 10 domane
online: orale
Per i non-frequentanti alle letture sopra sarà aggiunto il seguente testo:
Zambernardi, L. 2022. Life, Death, and the Western Way of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Zambernardi, L. 2010. I limiti della potenza. Etica e politica nella teoria internazionale di Hans J. Morgenthau (Bologna: Il Mulino).
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Powerpoint, video
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Lorenzo Zambernardi