93630 - CONFLITTI E DEMOCRAZIA NELL'AREA MEDITERRANEA

Learning outcomes

The course aims to reconstruct the consolidation of the democracies of the Mediterranean area, the northern shore, and the interaction between these and the complex phase of transition from colonial rule to independence. All this without neglecting the main internal conflicts within the individual systems and those arising from the interaction between the main statutory political actors. The temporal development horizon will be that of the so-called long twentieth century. At the end of the course, the student is able to move within the main contemporary conflicts that have crossed and are still crossing the Mediterranean area, with particular attention to the medium and long term lines that lead from the typical conflicts of the post-colonial period to the upheavals of the area following the two Gulf wars, the Arab Spring and the conflict in the Syrian area.

Course contents

The course aims to retrace the political, economic and social developments of the Mediterranean area in the chronological span from the beginning of the Cold War to the second decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, the dense relationships of interdependence between the critical issues that have matured on the southern shore of the Mediterranean (from the Yom Kippur war to the Syrian conflict) and the broader international scenario characterized by the bipolar order, at least until the early nineties of the twentieth century, and the subsequent multipolar disorder, will be analyzed. Also in the context of these geopolitical interactions, specific attention will also be paid to the role played by the EEC/EU.

Readings/Bibliography

Handbook

Varsori A., Storia internazionale. Dal 1919 a oggi, il Mulino, Bologna 2020 [From Chapter 4 to Chapter 10)
Campanini M., Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2020 [Part Three and Fourth]

One monograph/edited book among the following:

Basosi D., Finanza e petrolio. Gli Stati Uniti, l’oro nero e l’economia politica internazionale, Studio LT2 edizioni, Firenze 2012
Basosi D., Garavini G., Trentin M. (eds.), Counter-Shock: The Oil Counter -Revolution of the 1980s, I.B. Tauris, London 2018
Cruciani S., Ridolfi M. (a cura di), L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), FrancoAngeli, Milano 2017
Ferguson N. et al (eds.), The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA), 2010
Garavini G., Dopo gli imperi. L’integrazione europea nello scontro Nord-Sud, Le Monnier, Firenze 2009
Gozzi G., Umano, non umano. Intervento umanitario, colonialismo, “primavere arabe”, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
Lorenzini S., Una strana guerra fredda. Lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud, il Mulino, Bologna 2017
Morlino L., Sottilotta C.E. (a cura di), la crisi dell’Eurozona e l’Europa del Sud. Un’analisi comparata, il Mulino, Bologna 2020

Non-attending students will also have to add the following readings:

a) Massimiliano Trentin. Power and Integration. An Historical Overview on Euro-Mediterranean Relations, «Marmara University Journal of Political Science», 6, 2018 [doi: 10.14782/ipsus.421020].
b) Andrea Teti, Democracy Without Social Justice: Marginalization of Social and Economic Rights in EU Democracy Assistance Policy after the Arab Uprisings, «Middle East Critique», 24,1, 2015, pp. 9-25.
c) Daniela Huber, Asma Nouira, Maria Cristina Paciello, The Mediterranean: A Space of Division, Disparity and Separation, «MedReset Policy Papers», 2018.

 

 

Teaching methods

Lectures; debate with students during the classes

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Ppt(s)

Office hours

See the website of Simone Polidori