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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.

Lesson period: Third trimester

Lessons timetable

Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi

Exams calendar

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Bellocchio Luca Walter
Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
Le potenze dominanti

La politica estera delle potenze dominanti

La globalizzazione dell'ostilità: l'antagonismo URSS-USA

L'Europa unita dopo le catastrofi. Illusione geopolitica, sogno necessario

Tutti (con)tro Tutti: il caos post '89

Forma e forza delle colleganze internazionali nel sistema post-bipolare

Neo-imperialismo, ritorno dello stato e processi di frammentazione

Cina: grande (im)potenza ?

Egemone incatenato. La politica estera americana nel XXI secolo

Anglosfera?

Il collasso del sistema internazionale
Prerequisites for admission
none
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Luca Bellocchio, I sicari della pace, Meltemi, 2019

Articoli (reperibili on-line)

Samuel Huntington, "No exit. The error of endism", The National Interest, Sept 1989
Charles Krauthammer, "The unipolar moment", The Washington Post, 20 July, 1990
K. N. Waltz, "Structural realism after the Cold War, International Security, Summer 2000
Niall Ferguson, "A world without power", Foreign Policy, 2009
Roger Cohen, "Obama's doctrine of restraint", NYT, October 12, 2015
C. Layne, "Coming storms. The return of great-power war"", Foreign Affairs, Nov. 2020
S. Wertheim, "Delusions of dominance. Biden can't restore American primacy, and shouldn't try", Foreign Affairs, January 2021
Dmitri Trenin, "What Putin really wants in Ukraine", Foreign Affairs, December 2021
Jude Blanchette, "Xi,'s gamble", Foreign Affairs, July 2021

FILM

A PROVA DI ERRORE (FAIL SAFE), Regia di Sidney Lumet, 1964
LE VITE DEGLI ALTRI, Regia di Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
Tempo di leggere, 1959, Ai confini della realtà
George Carlin, SAVING THE PLANET
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
Professor: Bellocchio Luca Walter
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Bellocchio Luca Walter
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