B2919 - Political Violence and Terrorism

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Docente: Domenico Guzzo
  • Credits: 10
  • SSD: GSPS-04/B
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide adequate knowledge of the theoretical and cultural foundations underlying the choice and exercise of political violence, with particular interest in democratic state contexts. At the end of the course students will have deepened methodological aspects related to the definitions of subversion and terrorism, in the broader framework of political violence manifestations; the history of political violence and terrorism in the contemporary age: origins, development, phenomenology, contiguity and exploitation, strategic purposes, reactions of the security apparatuses, reasons for decline. Italy will represent the main case study, but a constant comparative analysis will be maintained with the most important international events related to the topic

Syllabus

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