- Docente: Silvia Grandi
- Credits: 4
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
Learning outcomes
Obiettivi formativi: the student will acquire the project design and capacity building skills in accordance with the sustainable development approach and the shared goals of the local and regional cooperation countries and public institutions. The student will debate the future scenarios of cooperation and the different paradigms of alternative development of basic need, of gender and sustainability.
Course contents
The course provides an introduction to political geography, geopolitics, the international financial architecture and trends especially useful in the field of international cooperation.
Moreover, the laboratorial part will enhance knowledge and practice on how to design and manage process, programmes and projects in the various field of international cooperation (country papers, strategy papers, elements on monitoring, structuring project proposals in international cooperation, indicators and assessments, budgeting and reporting, missions organisation, etc.). Both traditional (aid) and integrated (post-aid) approaches will be used.
The importance of the sustainable development paradigm, the bottom-up and local development approach will be methodologically central in conceptualizing actions.
Finally, students will develop knowledge and skills to debate the future scenarios of international cooperation and the different paradigms of development.
This course is structured in two main parts: (1) a theoretical and (2) an applied one. Overall, a thinking and learning lab atmosphere will be created with the aim of enabling students to acquire the basis to create, design and manage processes, programmes, projects in the various fields of international cooperation.
In particular, part (1) is going to introduce basic concept of political geography, geopolitics, the international financial architecture and the key issues and dynamics in the contemporary world. This to understand the various shades of the “developments” of the World and its Regions, to observe the relationships and contradictions among policies, instruments and reality.
- Lecture 1: Political geography, geopolitics and determinants in the “developments” of the World and its Regions;
- Lecture 2: The international financial architecture (institutions, fluxes, trends and financial centres) + Case studies
- Lecture 3: Financial systems for international cooperation, main impacts on development, new trends (Agenda 2030, post aid, financialization, etc.)
- Lecture 4, 5, 6: International cooperations typologies (for development, economic, European territorial, academic, cultural, political, industrial, environmental, military & peace keeping, etc.) and their policy instruments (principles, programmes, funds, practices, etc.) + Case studies
Part (2) is structured so as to be able to uderstand real world situations. Donors are organized, how to prepare and manage international cooperation programs and projects.
- Lecture 7 – How to prepare a tender, a task, an international mission. Actors, Roles, Tools and Watch-outs in international cooperation. – guided group works
- Lecture 8-9 – How to prepare a project. Actors, Roles, Tools and Watch-outs in international cooperation. – guided group works
- Lecture 10-11 – How to prepare a programme and budget support (i.e. background documents, country document, strategic papers, budget and financial instruments, performance indicators, etc. Actors, Roles, Tools and Watch-outs in international cooperation. – guided group works
The course will end with a lecture of analysis of trends, opportunities and weaknesses of international cooperation and its geopolitics.
- Lecture 12 – The trends in international cooperation geopolitics, finance and institutions
Readings/Bibliography
Reading List: (* available in Italian as well)
Theory
- Grandi S., 2017, Political Geography and Geopolitics: a note for development studies + The landscape of the global financial architecture and development (HANDS OUT - DISPENSE)
- Grandi S., 2017, An Atlas of an itinerary thought the determinants in the “developments” of the World and its Regions (HANDS OUT - DISPENSE)
- Stiglitz J. E, (2003), "Ethics, Market and Government Failure, and Globalization, The Governance of Globalization, The proceedings of the Ninth Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 9, Edmund Malinvaud and Louis Sabourin, eds., Casina Pio IV, 2-6 May 2003,- https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/2003_Ethics_Market_and_Government_Failure_and_Globalization.pdf]*
Further Readings:
- Grandi S., (2018), Sviluppo, Geografia e Cooperazioni Internazionali, Editrice La Mandragora, Imola.
- Agnew J., Muscarà L., (2012) Making Political Geography- Second Edition, Rowman and Littlefield, Maryland, US.*
- PARENTI F.M. E ROSATI U. (eds), 2016. Geofinance and geopolitics, EGEA, Milano*
Official Institutional Guidelines
- Europe Aid Cooperation office, 2004, Aid Delivery Methods. Project Cycle Management Guidelines, European Commission, Bruxelles. https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/aid-delivery-methods-project-cycle-management-guidelines-vol-1_en
- DG BUDGET, 2017, A guide to EU Funds. 2017 edition. European Union, Brussels. (free on: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7d72330a-7020-11e7-b2f2-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-39311751 )
- DG BUDGET, 2014, A beginners guideline to EU Funding. European Union, Brussels. (free on: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/9eb0b343-aa5e-46b6-8cd4-4fc07dcaddea/language-en/format-PDF/source-search )
- DG BUDGET, 2015, EU budget at Glance. European Union, Brussels.(free on: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7472f901-0de2-4eee-bfa6-4373571146e1/language-en/format-PDF/source-39420457 )
- OECD, 2017, Development Co‑operation Report 2016. The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities, OECD, Paris - http://www.oecd.org/dac/development-co-operation-report-2016.htm
- + SLIDE in AMS Campus
Instructions for non-attending students (
Instructions for SPOSI students: to improve basic knowledge on Geography of Development reading one of the following
Potter, R., Binns, T., Elliott, J. A., Nel, E., Smith, D. W., 2018
Grandi S., 2018, Sviluppo,
Teaching methods
Lectures are composed of classical/seminaries supported by PC-based presentations, case studies, maps and videos. Moreover, tutorial, simulations and working group sessions are going to be performed in the second part of the laboratory.
Assessment methods
Students who attend lectures (
Students who do not attend lectures (
In special cases, an essay (tesina) can be agreed with the lecturer.
Teaching tools
Pc, videos, slides, maps.
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Office hours
See the website of Silvia Grandi