Great Powers

A.Y. 2022/2023
9
Max ECTS
60
Overall hours
SSD
SPS/04
Language
Italian
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 crisis 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.
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

Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
The dominant powers
The foreign policy of the dominant powers
The globalisation of enmity: USSR-USA antagonism
United Europe after the catastrophes. Geopolitical illusion, necessary dream
All against all: post-89 chaos
Neo-imperialism and processes of fragmentation
Tripolarism (lame)
China: collapsing colossus?
The base-nation
Anglosphere?
The collapse of the international system
Prerequisites for admission
none
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Luca Bellocchio, Tutto è potenza, Milano, 2023

Inoltre, un testo a scelta tra:
Luca Bellocchio, I sicari della pace, Meltemi, 2019
Mario Del Pero, La guerra fredda, Carocci, 2014
Luca Bellocchio, Anglosfera, Il Melangolo, 2006


Infine, i seguenti film(ati)

A prova di errore (FAIL SAFE), Regia di S. Lumet, (1964)
Tempo di leggere, 1959, Ai confini della realtà
Saving the planet, George Carlin, 2007
ARCA RUSSA, regia di Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002
Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral examination aims to test the capacity of the student to understand the importance of the competition for the resources of power
SPS/04 - POLITICAL SCIENCE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours