Course 2024-2025 a.y.

Classes: 45 (II sem.)

Instructors:
Class 45: ANDREA COLLI

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The course aims to address from a global perspective the emergence, transformation and nature of the interaction among polities in a long-term, multi-secular perspective. The perspective of the course will include elements of global history, history of international relations, and the evolution of the World’s geopolitical orders in time. A unique feature of the course will be, alongside frontal lectures by the instructors and guests, the presence of sessions dedicated to the direct analysis of historical sources and materials, in order to provide the students some insights into “the historian’s toolkit”

1) From hunter-gatherers to the first empires

2) The emergence of pre-modern political institutions

3) The Balance of Power System (1700-1815)

4) The Two Concerts of Europe (1815-1914)

5) The interwar multipolarity (1919-1939)

6) Seventy Years, Three World Orders: the Road to the Present

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course the students will:

 

a) have a clear understanding of the process of State formation in the long-run

b) have a clear understanding of the dynamics of international relations among polities in the long run

c) learn about the meaning of geoplitics and the evolution of this concept

d) understand the succession of World orders in the long run

e) analyze, interpret and contextualize primary source in the study of international affairs

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course students will be able to approach tasks and problems in professional life thanks to a mix of soft knowledge and soft skills.

Soft knowledge do include:

a) the understanding of the process of formation and interaction of polities, essential in global diplomacy and affairs

b) the understanding of the relationship between the fireld of international affairs and that of global integration, essential in decision making

Soft skills do include:

a) through the course students will be required to present and motivate their analysis in front of the class

b) skills will include the ability to analyze and contextualize diplomatic sources and materials

• Lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Practical Exercises
• Individual works / Assignments
• Collaborative Works / Assignments

Practical exercise will include: the analysis of historical sources/diplomatic documents, the analysis of databases about polities' characteristics and other datasets available to political and social scientists

 

Individual and groupworks will include the comment to the above-mentioned sources, on an individual or group basis.

	Continuous assessment	Partial exams	General exam
Written individual exam (traditional/online)		x	x
Individual Works/ Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)	x
Collaborative Works / Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)	x
Active class participation (virtual, attendance)	x

Teaching materials

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