- Docente: Filippo Andreatta
- Credits: 8
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8050)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to achieve advanced knowledge of the main
contemporary theories of international relations (realism,
liberalism, constructivism). At the end of the course, students
will command the most important debates within the IR literature,
and will have developed the analytical skills necessary to
understand the functioning of the contemporary international
system.
Course contents
The course is divided into two sections: an historical introduction
on the evolution of the international system, which requires the
reading ofPaul Kennedy, 1987, The Rise and Fall of the Great
Powers, Random House, and a review of the theoretical literature,
which focuses on Le grandi opere delle relazioni internazionali,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011 as well as a series of articles.
1) Introduction
- Jack Snyder, 2004, One World, Rival Theories, Foreign
Policy, nov., 52-62
- Martin Wight, 1960, Why is there no International Theory?,
International Relations, 2, 1, 35-48
- Robert Jervis, 2002, Theories of War in an Era of Leading-Power
Peace, The American Political Science Review, 96, 1, 1-14
2) Classical realism
- Gianni Dessì, Reinhold Niebuhr: l'etica del realismo,in F.
Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Francesco Raschi, Raymond Aron: la sociologia delle relazioni
internazionali, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle
relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Michele Chiaruzzi, Edward H. Carr: utopia e realtà in F.
Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
3) Balance of power
- Lorenzo Zambernardi, Hans Morgenthau: la politica di potenza, in
F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Marco Clementi, Kenneth Waltz: l'anarchia della politica di
potenza, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle
relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Angelo Panebianco, George Liska: la rivincita della storia, in
F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
4) Hegemony
- Robert Gilpin, 1988, The Theory of Hegemonic War, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 18, 4, 591-613
- William C. Wohlforth, 1999, The Stability of a Unipolar World,
International Security, 24, 1, 5-41
- George Modelski, 1978, The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the
Nation-State, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 20,
No. 2, pp. 214-235.
5) Causes of wars
- James Fearon, 1995, Rationalist Explanations for War,
International Organization, 49 (Summer), 379-414.
- Jack Levy, 1988, The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace.
American Review of Political Science, vol. 1 pp. 139-165
- Carl Kaysen, 1990, Is War Obsolete?: A Review Essay,
International Security, 14, 4, 42-64
6) Liberalism and institutions
- Francesco Raschi, Norman Angell: il liberalismo e la pace, in F.
Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
Filippo Andreatta, Inis Claude: le soluzioni istituzionali, in F.
Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle relazioni
internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
G. John Ikenberry, 1998, Institutions, Strategic
Restraint, and the Persistence of American Postwar Order,
International Security, 23, 3, 43-78
7) Democratic and capitalist peace
- Michael W. Doyle, 1983, Kant, Liberal Legacies, and
Foreign Affairs, Part 1 & 2, Philosophy and Public
Affairs, 12, 3, 4, 205-235, 323-353
- Eugenia Baroncelli, Bruce Russett e John Oneal: la teoria
neokantiana della pace perpetua, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le
grandi opere delle relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino,
2011.
- Erik Gartzke, 2007, The Capitalist Peace, “American Journal of
Political Science”, 51, 1, pp. 166-191;
8) Constructivism, civilizations and the society of states
- Lorenzo Zambernardi, Alexander Wendt: la costruzione sociale
delle relazioni internazionali, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le
grandi opere delle relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino,
2011.
- Emanuele Castelli, Samuel P. Huntington: alle radici dello
scontro di civiltà, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere
delle relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Michele Chiaruzzi, Hedley Bull: la ricerca dell'ordine
internazionale, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi opere delle
relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
- Brunello Vigezzi, Hedley Bull e Adam Watson: la globalizzazione
del sistema degli stati, in F. Andreatta (a cura di), Le grandi
opere delle relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
9) International cooperation
- Joseph M. Grieco, 1988, Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a
realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism,
International Organization, 42, 3, 485-507
- Robert Axelrod, Robert O. Keohane, 1985, Achieving
Cooperation under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions, World
Politics, 38, 1, 226-254
- Robert Jervis, 1978, Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma,
World Politics, 30, 2, 167-214
10) Economics and politics
- Helen Milner, 1998, International Political Economy: Beyond
Hegemonic Stability, Foreign Policy, 110, 112-123
- Johan Galtung, 1971, A Structural Theory of Imperialism, Journal
of Peace Research, 8, 2, 81-117
- Stephen D. Krasner, 1976, State Power and the Structure of
International Trade, World Politics, 28, 3, 317-34
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