Great Powers and the Crisis of the International System
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the conceptual and theoretical tools needed to understand which domestic and strategic factors shape the foreign policy of the dominant powers in the post-bipolar international arena, and what will determine the collapse of the international system.
Expected learning outcomes
Capability to apply knowledge and understanding: the knowledge acquired will allow the student to face, understand, analyze and interpret the morphology and mechanics of the post-bipolar international system and the foreign policy of the dominant powers in the new international strategic context.
Lesson period: Second trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second trimester
Microsoft Teams will be used for online teaching
Course syllabus
The dominant powers
The foreign policy of the dominant powers
The globalization of hostility: the USSR-US antagonism
A united Europe after disasters. Geopolitical illusion, necessary dream
The chaos after '89
Form and strength of international alliances in the post-bipolar system
Neo-imperialism, return of the state and processes of fragmentation
China: great power?
Chained hegemon. American foreign policy in the 21st century
Anglosphere?
The collapse of the international system
The foreign policy of the dominant powers
The globalization of hostility: the USSR-US antagonism
A united Europe after disasters. Geopolitical illusion, necessary dream
The chaos after '89
Form and strength of international alliances in the post-bipolar system
Neo-imperialism, return of the state and processes of fragmentation
China: great power?
Chained hegemon. American foreign policy in the 21st century
Anglosphere?
The collapse of the international system
Prerequisites for admission
none
Teaching methods
Capability to apply knowledge and understanding: the knowledge acquired will allow the student to face, understand, analyze and interpret the morphology and mechanics of the post-bipolar international system and the foreign policy of the dominant powers in the new international strategic context.
Teaching Resources
Libri
Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, 2007.
Luca Bellocchio, I sicari della pace, Meltemi, 2019
Articoli (reperibili on-line)
Samuel Huntington, "No exit. The error of endism", The National Interest, September 1989
Charles Krauthammer, "The unipolar moment", The Washington Post, 20 July, 1990
Kenneth N. Waltz, "The emerging structure of international politics", International Security, Fall 1993
Kenneth N. Waltz, "Structural realism after the Cold War, International Security, Summer 2000
Niall Ferguson, "A world without power", Foreign Policy, 2004
Roger Cohen, "Obama's doctrine of restraint", NYT, October 12, 2015
FILM
A PROVA DI ERRORE (FAIL SAFE), Regia di Sidney Lumet, 1964
LE VITE DEGLI ALTRI, Regia di Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
TIME ENOUGH AT LAST, The twilight zone, 1959
George Carlin, SAVING THE PLANET
Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, 2007.
Luca Bellocchio, I sicari della pace, Meltemi, 2019
Articoli (reperibili on-line)
Samuel Huntington, "No exit. The error of endism", The National Interest, September 1989
Charles Krauthammer, "The unipolar moment", The Washington Post, 20 July, 1990
Kenneth N. Waltz, "The emerging structure of international politics", International Security, Fall 1993
Kenneth N. Waltz, "Structural realism after the Cold War, International Security, Summer 2000
Niall Ferguson, "A world without power", Foreign Policy, 2004
Roger Cohen, "Obama's doctrine of restraint", NYT, October 12, 2015
FILM
A PROVA DI ERRORE (FAIL SAFE), Regia di Sidney Lumet, 1964
LE VITE DEGLI ALTRI, Regia di Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
TIME ENOUGH AT LAST, The twilight zone, 1959
George Carlin, SAVING THE PLANET
Assessment methods and Criteria
The course aims to provide students with the conceptual and theoretical tools needed to understand which domestic and strategic factors shape the foreign policy of the dominant powers in the post-bipolar international arena, and what will determine the collapse of the international system.
SPS/04 - POLITICAL SCIENCE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Bellocchio Luca Walter
Professor(s)