D0144 - STORIA DELLA POLITICA ESTERA ITALIANA (Gr. 1)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to give students the political, economic, strategic, and cultural benchmarks that shaped Italian foreign policy and its position in the international order, through a historical perspective from national unification to the Cold War.

Course contents

This course is the seminar part of History of Italian Foreign Policy. It includes six seminars on issues to be chosen by students among the following:

-Historical benchmarks of Italian diplomacy

-Italy, "a courtesy power"

-Italy and the alliances: need, resource, constraint?

-Continuity and discontinuity between fascist and republican diplomacy

-Multilateralism and Italian foreign policy

-Italy and peacekeeping

-Italy and the Security Council reform

-Sigonella crisis

-Giulio Andreotti's foreign policy

-Roberto Gaja: a diplomatic profile

-Italian contribution to European integration.

Readings/Bibliography

Preliminary knowledge of the handbook Giuseppe Mammarella, Paolo Cacace, La politica estera italiana. Dallo Stato unitario ai giorni nostri, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010.

Introductory readings uploaded on Virtuale will be mandatory for all attending students for the classroom debate.

Students will provide sources for their seminars.

Teaching methods

Six students' seminars for a total amount of 12 hours, including presentations and debate, and the delivery of papers.

Assessment methods

The seminar part will be evaluated by considering:

-paper

-presentation and contribution to the panel

-valuable participation in the debate.

The assessment will be in thirties and contribute to the final grade.

The paper will be delivered by 30 December by email. It must not exceed 10,000 characters (including spaces), using 14-point font and 1.5 line spacing, and must include footnotes and a bibliography.

 

Teaching tools

Audiovisual sources, speakers' lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Soave