Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Guido Lenzi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Relations (cod. 8782)
Learning outcomes
The course will examine the new requirements that diplomacy must comply with, both at the national and global level, in the present transitional phase of the international relations system. At the end of the course, students will be able to point out the radical changes that occurred after the "Cold War" and the public and multilateral diplomatic methods that resulted from it, with special reference to specific crisis situations.
Course contents
The purpose of the course is to describe the additional challenges that diplomacy must face, at the domestic and international level, in the present transitional phase of foreign relations. Specific case studies will analyse the most relevant changes that have occurred since the end of the Cold War, and indicate the emerging public and multilateral diplomatic tools.
Readings/Bibliography
A) Compulsory Reading (for students reading Italian)
LENZI, Guido, Internazionalismo Liberale: attori e scenari del mondo globale, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2014.
B) Select two from the following:
(in Italian)
ANDREATTA, Filippo, Alla ricerca dell’ordine mondiale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2007
BARIE’, Ottavio, Dalla Guerra Fredda alla Grande Crisi, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013
BELCREDI, Enrico, La Carriera, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2006
CASSESE, Sabino, "Chi Governa il Mondo", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014
DUCCI, Roberto, Le Speranze d’Europa, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2007
SERRA, Enrico, La Diplomazia, strumenti e metodi, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2008
(in English)
BERRIDGE, G.R., "Diplomacy: Theory and Practice", Palgrave, NY, 2010
FUKUYAMA, Francis, The origins of Political Order, Profile Books, London, 2011
ICKENBERRY, John, Liberal Leviathan, Princeton UP, 2012 KISSINGER, Henry, Diplomacy, Touchstone, New York, 1995
“ “ World Order, Penguin, New York, 2014
LIEVEN, Anatol and HULSMAN, John, Ethical Realism, Vintage, New York, 2007
NICOLSON, Harold, “ The Evolution of the Diplomatic Method, Constable, London, 1954
SLAUGHTER, Anne Marie, "A new World Order", Princeton UP, 2004
(in French)
De Raymond, Jean Francois, "L'Esprit de la Diplomatie", Manitoba, Paris, 2015
C) Suggested additional reading:
ALBRECHT CARRIE’, René, Diplomatic History of Europe since the Congress of Vienna, Methuen, London, 1961
CARR, E.H., What is History, Penguin, New York, 1991
FERRARIS, Luigi Vittorio, Manuale di Politica Estera Italiana, Laterza, Bari,1995
JUDT, Tony, Postwar, Vintage, New York, 2010
MACMILLAN, Margaret, Paris 1919, Random House, New York, 2001
MAMMARELLA G e CACACE, P La Politica Estera dell’Italia, Laterza, Bari, 2006
MAZOWER, Mark, "Governing the World", Penguin, NY, 2012
KAPLAN, Robert, "Warrior Politics", Random House, NY, 2002
NYE, Joseph, "Is the American Century over?", Polity Press,2015
SAROTTE, Mary Elise, 1989, Princeton UP, 2009
SCHLESINGER, Stephen C., Act of Creation: the founding of the UN, Westview, Cambridge Mass., 2003
WALZER, Michael, Arguing about War, Yale UP, 2004
WRIGHT, Lawrence, Thirteen days in September, Vintage, New York, 2015
Teaching methods
class presentations, discussion, case studies
Assessment methods
Teaching tools
none
Office hours
See the website of Guido Lenzi