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93594 - STORIA DELLA DIPLOMAZIA CULTURALE NEL '900

Academic Year 2023/2024

                
                        Docente:
                        Michele Marchi
                    
                        Credits:
                        12
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-STO/04
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Michele Marchi
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Patrizio Fondi
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
                                
                            Campus:
                            Ravenna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Mediterranean Societies and Cultures: Institutions, Security, Environment (cod. 5696)

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                                        Course Timetable
                                    
from Oct 04, 2023 to Nov 03, 2023

                                        Course Timetable
                                    
from Nov 06, 2023 to Dec 05, 2023

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide a historiographically grounded definition of the concept of cultural diplomacy. After having clarified the methodological approach, the course will focus on the interaction between “traditional” and “cultural” diplomacy during the so-called “Long XIX Century”, i. e. between the last decade of the XIX century and the very first years of the XXI century. Special emphasis will be placed on the ever-increasing importance of cultural dynamics in the interactions between nation States and supranational organisations and the interactions among nation States themselves. By the end of the course students will be able to reconstruct the decisive contribution that cultural diplomacy provided to international relations during the two World Wars, the evolution of the Cold War, and the post-bipolar era. Particular attention will be devoted to the interaction between traditional and less known, unofficial diplomacy tracks.

Course contents

The aim of the course is to prepare students to tackle some of the main events that characterised global diplomacy in the XX century, devoting special attention to the importance of negotiation dynamics pertaining to particularly relevant and difficult cultural contexts. The course will be structured along two 30-hours modules. The first module will focus on the evolution of the Cold War from its beginnings to the downfall of international communism, exploring its main diplomatic steps and devoting particular attention to the so-called “nuclear diplomacy”. The second module will be taught by an ambassador and thus will adopt a more operational approach: after declining the concepts of negotiation and cultural diplomacy, the module will undertake the simulation and the analysis of some of the most complex and culturally significant diplomatic negotiations of the second half of the XX century.

First module (Michele Marchi)

- From "30 years war" to Cold War

- The world on the brink of "Third World War"?

- A nuclear Cold War

- To die or to coexist? Detente

- The so called "New Cold War"

- The fall and the illusion of a unipolar world

Second module (Patrizio Fondi)

- Negotiating, cultural diplomacy and soft power

- Simulation: to organize a cultural event, the embassy role

- Between cultural diplomacy and multilateralism

- Music and Art as instruments of diplomacy

- Simulation: material and immaterial cultural heritage at Unesco

- Psychology and power during a negotiation

- Diffent values and different cultures in a diplomatic negotiation

- Simulation: negotiating in Unesco on the Cartoons of Muhammad

- Tactics and strategies during a negotiation

- Analysis: negotiating with an enemy (US-Taliban case)

- Human rights as a negotiating field

- Simulation: possible diplomatic solutions for the Russian-Ukrainian war

Readings/Bibliography

ATTENDING STUDENTS

Mandatory books for both modules

R. Fischer-W. Ury-B. Patton, L'arte del negoziato, Il Corbaccio, 2019

I. Kershaw, L'Europa nel vortice, Laterza, 2020

A book to choose for module 1 among:

F. Bello, Diplomazia culturale e Guerra fredda, Il Mulino, 2020

R. Brizzi-N. Sbetti, La diplomazia del pallone. Storia politica dei mondiali di calcio (1930-2022), Le Monnier, 2022

G. Castellin Curiel, Soft power e l'arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, 2021

L. Ciglioni, Culture atomiche, Carocci, 2021

L. Ciglioni, L'Italia e la guerra del Golfo, Carocci, 2022

P. Gatrell, L'inquietudine dell'Europa. Come la migrazione ha rimodellato un continente, Einaudi, 2020

S. Labbate, L’Italia e la missione di pace in Libano (1982-1984). Alla ricerca di una nuova centralità nel Mediterraneo, Franco Angeli, 2023

V. Lomellini, La diplomazia del terrore 1967-1989, Laterza, 2022

F. Niglia-D. Pasquinucci (a cura di), La Germania nell'Unione europea. Stereotipi e ruolo storico, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2019 + F. Niglia-B. Romano-F. Valeri, Italia e Germania, Bollati Boringhieri, 2021

D. Pasquinucci, Il frutto avvelenato. Il vincolo europeo e la critica all’Europa, Le Monnier, 2023

M. Ridolfi-G. Orsina (a cura di), La Repubblica del presidente. Istituzioni, pedagogia civile e cittadini nelle trasformazioni delle democrazie, Viella, 2021

M. Ridolfi (a cura di), Enrico Berlinguer, la storia e le memorie pubbliche, Viella, 2022

M. Ridolfi (a cura di), Aldo Moro, la storia e le memorie pubbliche, Viella, 2022

M.L. Salvadori, Da un secolo all’altro. Profilo storico del mondo contemporaneo 1980-2022, Donzelli, 2022

G. Samarani-S. Graziani, La Cina rossa. Storia del partito comunista cinese, Laterza, 2023

S. Sottoriva, Un intellettuale a Palazzo Farnese. Gilles Martinet ambasciatore di Francia a Parigi (1981-1984), Franco Angeli, 2017

A. Spiri, The End 1992-1994. La fine della Prima Repubblica negli archivi segreti americani, Baldini e Castoldi, 2022

A. Varsori, Dalla rinascita al declino. Storia internazionale dell'Italia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2022

A. Varsori-G. Acquaviva (a cura di), Craxi e il ruolo dell’Italia nel sistema internazionale, Il Mulino, 2022

A book to choose for module 2 among:

A. Badini, Lineamenti per un rinnovato dialogo tra le culture, Magma, 2006, (reperibile sul sito http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/diplo)

V. A. Farinelli, Prima di parlare taci (corso di negoziato diplomatico), Licenza Creative Commons, 2018 (reperibile sul sito http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/diplo)

S. Baldi, Cultura in residenza (l’esperienza dell’Ambasciata d’Italia a Sofia), Ambasciata d’ Italia, 2019 (reperibile sul sito http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/diplo)

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

Mandatory books for both modules

E. Di Nolfo, Dagli imperi militari agli imperi tecnologici. La politica internazionale dal XX secolo a oggi, Laterza, 2014

R. Fischer-W. Ury-B. Patton, L'arte del negoziato, Il Corbaccio, 2019

I. Kershaw, L'Europa nel vortice, Laterza, 2020

Two books for module 1