War Studies

The course is designed to provide analytical and critical tools addressed to understand, interpret and evaluate interrelations among strategic thinking, and its historical evolution, and modern battlefield in the MENA, Middle East and North Africa, region. All of these are very important elements for Strategic Studies students.

Knowledge: students are expected to be confident with the following core concepts:
1) the concept of strategy and the main ideas related to Strategic Studies;
2) the strategic ideas of the most important thinkers, mainly Carl von Clausewitz;
3) the study of current conflitcs and their impact on the contemporary international system;
4) the notion of irregualr warfare, its evolution, its impact on international system and its links to the concept of terrorism;

Application of knowledge: students are expected to be able to effectively utilize the abovementioned content in the analysis of real and hypothetical cases.
The exam is designed to evaluate the previous two points, along with self-learning skills (that is, the ability to expand the horizon on the basis of content learned during the course), autonomy of judgement and the ability to communicate effectively.