78793 - Laboratory for Reading Diplomatic Documents

Learning outcomes

The workshop is aimed at enabling students to understand the diplomatic documents and place them in the right historical context. Metodological skills and critical approach will be developed through the means of seminaries.

Course contents

Students will exercise their skills in historical analysis and in diplomatic tecnique through seminaries on some of the most relevant historical documents:

- Congress of Vienna (9 June 1815) and Holy Alliance (25 September 1815);

- Monroe doctrine (2 December 1823);

- Triple Alliance (20 May 1882) and Mancini Declaration (2 May 1882);

- Pact of London (26 April 1915);

- Sykes-Picot Agreement (16 May 1916);

- Wilson's Fourteen Points (8 January 1918);

- Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919);

- Pact of Steel (22 May 1939);

- Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact (23 August 1939);

- Atlantic Charter (14 August 1941);

- Jalta Conference (6-11 February 1945); 

- Kennan's Long Telegram (22 February 1946);

- Truman Doctrine (12 March 1947);

- North Atlantic Alliance Treaty (4 April 1949);

- European Economic Community Treaty (25 March 1957);

- Non Proliferation Treaty (1 July 1968);

- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (12 September 1990);

- Maastricht Treaty (7 Ferbruary 1992).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Documents' texts are available in:

- Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Testi e documenti (1815-2003), a cura di O. Barié, M.de Leonardis, A. Dè Leonardis, G. Rossi, Monduzzi, Bologna 2004.

Teaching methods

Students' presentations and debate.

Assessment methods

Students attending at least 70% of the lectures are required to deliver via email a comparative paper on two documents (free choice), not exceeding 10.000 characters including spaces, by 30 December 2019.

Teaching tools

Documents and online sources.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Soave