- Docente: Mauro Maggiorani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 5979)
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from Oct 01, 2025 to Dec 19, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student/er possesses the basic foundations for the study and understanding of political phenomena of international importance; knows the most important political institutions at international level; is able to deepen themes and concepts of the disciplinary scope in a comparative perspective.
Course contents
During the course you will initially address the theme of analysis and criticism of sources, you will continue with a reflection on the true the false in history, propose keywords of the course and, on these, develop the individual lessons. In particular: nationalism and imperialism; marxism and socialism; americanism and fordism; leninism and stalinism; fascism; nazism; totalitarianism; antifascism and pacifism; europeanism; federalism, confederalism, functionalism; social democracy, welfare, reconstruction; bipolarism and cold war; third world and terzomondism/post-colonialism; neoliberalism and neoconservatism in USA and UK; ecologism; populism and new nationalisms; from bipolarism to multipolarism.
Readings/Bibliography
G. Formigoni, Storia della politica internazionale nell'età contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2018; E. Di Nolfo, Prima lezione di storia delle relazioni internazionali, Laterza, 2006 (o successive edizioni); G. Pasquino, Le ideologie politiche, Il Mulino, 2020; M. Maggiorani, Un sogno chiamato Europa, Clueb, 2021
Teaching methods
The lessons will use graphs, tables, power points, videos and links to the websites of the European institutions.
Assessment methods
Students attending and Erasmus:
(a) reading of a text chosen from the following: G. Formigoni, Storia della politica internazionale nell'età contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2018; E. Di Nolfo, Prima lezione di storia delle relazioni internazionali, Laterza, 2006 (or later editions); G. Pasquino, Le ideologie politiche, Il Mulino, 2020; M. Maggiorani, A dream called Europa, Clueb, 2021
(b) study of materials made available during lessons
Non-attending students: reading of two texts chosen from the following: G. Formigoni, Storia della politica internazionale nell'età contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2018; E. Di Nolfo, Prima lezione di storia delle relazioni internazionali, Laterza, 2006 (or later editions); G. Pasquino, Political ideologies, Il Mulino, 2020; M. Maggiorani, A dream called Europe, Clueb, 2021
Office hours
See the website of Mauro Maggiorani