- Docente: Simone Polidori
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Blended Learning
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mediterranean History, Societies and Cultures (cod. 5974)
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from Sep 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course aims to reconstruct the consolidation of the democracies of the Mediterranean area, the northern shore, and the interaction between these and the complex phase of transition from colonial rule to independence. All this without neglecting the main internal conflicts within the individual systems and those arising from the interaction between the main statutory political actors. The temporal development horizon will be that of the so-called long twentieth century. At the end of the course, the student is able to move within the main contemporary conflicts that have crossed and are still crossing the Mediterranean area, with particular attention to the medium and long term lines that lead from the typical conflicts of the post-colonial period to the upheavals of the area following the two Gulf wars, the Arab Spring and the conflict in the Syrian area.
Course contents
The course aims to retrace the political, economic and social events of North Africa and the Middle East in the period between the first processes of decolonization from the area and the 2010s. A particular attention will be paid to the way in which the phenomena considered, from post-colonial state building to the Gulf Wars, just to name a few, have interacted with an international geopolitical system characterized by the bipolar order of the Cold War first and then by the multipolar disorder.
Readings/Bibliography
Attending students:
Roggero C., Storia del Nord Africa indipendente. Tra imperialismi, nazionalismi e autoritarismi, Bompiani, Milano 2019
Campanini M., Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2020 [esclusivamente le parti terza e quarta del volume]
No attending students:
Roggero C., Storia del Nord Africa indipendente. Tra imperialismi, nazionalismi e autoritarismi, Bompiani, Milano 2019
Campanini M., Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2020 [esclusivamente le parti terza e quarta del volume]
A book of your choice between:
Basosi D., Finanza e petrolio. Gli Stati Uniti, l'oro nero e l'economia politica internazionale, Studio LT2 edizioni, Firenze 2012
Basosi D., Garavini G., Trentin M. (eds.), The Counter-Shock. The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s, I.B. Tauris, London 2018
Betts R.F., La decolonizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 2025
Cecini S., La guerra in Libia. Dalla caduta di Gheddafi al governo Draghi (2011-2021), Carocci, Roma 2021
Ciglioni L., L'Italia e la Guerra del Golfo. Istituzioni, Partiti, società (1990-1991), Carocci, Roma 2022
Di Peri R., Il Libano contemporaneo. Storia, politica, società, Carocci, Roma 2021 [escluso il primo capitolo]
El Houssi L., Il risveglio della democrazia. La Tunisia dall'indipendenza alla transizione, Carocci, Roma 2025
Emiliani M., Purgatorio arabo. Il tradimento delle rivoluzioni in Medio Oriente, Laterza, Roma.Bari 2020
Ferguson N., et al.(eds.), The Shock of the Global. The 1970s in Perspective, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 2010
Gozzi G., Umano, non umano. Intervento umanitario, colonialismo, "primavere arabe", il Mulino, Bologna 2015
Milano R., L'Italia e l'Iran di Khomeini (1979-1989), Le Monnier, Milano 2020
Vercelli C., Storia del conflitto israelo-palestinese, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2024
Teaching methods
Lectures, debates with students during the classes.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Ppt(s)
Office hours
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