Lab. the Failures of Global Politics
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
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Expected learning outcomes
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Lesson period: First trimester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
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Lesson period
First trimester
Course syllabus
What is failure in global politics?
What is a failure? How do we assess it?
Global Commons & national interests
What are the challenges? Or the divergences?
What interventions? Effective, efficient & fesable What types of global interventions? By whom?
Report 1: Human Rights What are HRs? How to monitor HRs? How to protect HRs?
Report 2: Humanitarian Aid What are types of aid? How can we assess impact?
Report 3: War Atrocities How do we report war atrocities? What evidence?
Report 4: Climate Change What do data tell us? Why failing to address it?
Report 5: Force Displacement What causes? What short and long term effects?
Report 6: Transnational Inequalities & Capitals Is there a failure? By whom? Who gains and who loses?
Discussion students' reports What your reports say?
What is a failure? How do we assess it?
Global Commons & national interests
What are the challenges? Or the divergences?
What interventions? Effective, efficient & fesable What types of global interventions? By whom?
Report 1: Human Rights What are HRs? How to monitor HRs? How to protect HRs?
Report 2: Humanitarian Aid What are types of aid? How can we assess impact?
Report 3: War Atrocities How do we report war atrocities? What evidence?
Report 4: Climate Change What do data tell us? Why failing to address it?
Report 5: Force Displacement What causes? What short and long term effects?
Report 6: Transnational Inequalities & Capitals Is there a failure? By whom? Who gains and who loses?
Discussion students' reports What your reports say?
Prerequisites for admission
attending also Global Politics (GPS)
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars and students led discussion
Teaching Resources
Readings
Meeting 1: What is failure in global politics?
Vesco, Paola, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Stefan Döring, Anneli Eriksson, Hanne Fjelde, Debarati Guha-Sapir et al. "The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature." World Development 187 (2025): 106806.
Meeting 2: Global Commons & national interests
Sandler, Todd. "Overcoming global and regional collective action impediments." Global policy 1, no. 1 (2010): 40-50.
Meeting 3: What interventions?
Read this : https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/White-Papers-Guidelines.pdf
Meeting 4: Intervention: Effective, efficient & feasible
Read these two documents:
https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/19317bf6-cae3-444b-9ef5-f54fcdb05c33/Hegre%20Hultman%20Nygård%20-%20Peacekeeping%20Works%20Conflict%20Trends%201-2015.pdf?inline=true
https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7-PeaceOps-2020-1245-AssessmentTool.pdf
Meeting 5 - Report 1: Human Rights
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2025/01/World%20Report%202025.pdf
Select two countries, read their assessment
Meeting 6- Report 2: Humanitarian Aid
Read Aid Under Pressure: 3 Accelerating Shifts in Official Development Assistance, https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/papers/10.18356/29589304-5/read
Meeting 7 - Report 3: War Atrocities
Read this report on Colombia https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/colombia.pdf
Further select one report:
BiH
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/6/9/423209.pdf
Darfur
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2025-01/2025-01-27-otp-40th-unsc-report-darfour-eng.pdf
Gaza
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza
Syria
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/57/86
Meeting 7 - Meeting Report 4: Climate Change
Read this report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
Meeting 8 - Report 5: Forced Displacement
Read this report https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends-report-2024
Or read this https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-forced-displacement/forced-displacement_en AND
Read one country case:
Afghanistan: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/117261515563099980/pdf/122556-WP-AfghanistanForcedDisplacementLegalandPolicyFrameworKAssessmentF-PUBLIC.pdf
Kenya : https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2024/06/18/dashboard-kenya
Venezuela : https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/Venezuela%20GR2024%20Situation%20Summary%20FINAL%20v3.pdf
Meeting 9- Report 6: Transnational Inequalities & Capitals
Read chapter 1 https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2021/12/WorldInequalityReport2022_Full_Report.pdf
Select one country and explore data and trends https://wid.world
Meeting 1: What is failure in global politics?
Vesco, Paola, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Stefan Döring, Anneli Eriksson, Hanne Fjelde, Debarati Guha-Sapir et al. "The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature." World Development 187 (2025): 106806.
Meeting 2: Global Commons & national interests
Sandler, Todd. "Overcoming global and regional collective action impediments." Global policy 1, no. 1 (2010): 40-50.
Meeting 3: What interventions?
Read this : https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/White-Papers-Guidelines.pdf
Meeting 4: Intervention: Effective, efficient & feasible
Read these two documents:
https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/19317bf6-cae3-444b-9ef5-f54fcdb05c33/Hegre%20Hultman%20Nygård%20-%20Peacekeeping%20Works%20Conflict%20Trends%201-2015.pdf?inline=true
https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7-PeaceOps-2020-1245-AssessmentTool.pdf
Meeting 5 - Report 1: Human Rights
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2025/01/World%20Report%202025.pdf
Select two countries, read their assessment
Meeting 6- Report 2: Humanitarian Aid
Read Aid Under Pressure: 3 Accelerating Shifts in Official Development Assistance, https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/papers/10.18356/29589304-5/read
Meeting 7 - Report 3: War Atrocities
Read this report on Colombia https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/colombia.pdf
Further select one report:
BiH
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/6/9/423209.pdf
Darfur
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2025-01/2025-01-27-otp-40th-unsc-report-darfour-eng.pdf
Gaza
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza
Syria
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/57/86
Meeting 7 - Meeting Report 4: Climate Change
Read this report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
Meeting 8 - Report 5: Forced Displacement
Read this report https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends-report-2024
Or read this https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-forced-displacement/forced-displacement_en AND
Read one country case:
Afghanistan: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/117261515563099980/pdf/122556-WP-AfghanistanForcedDisplacementLegalandPolicyFrameworKAssessmentF-PUBLIC.pdf
Kenya : https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2024/06/18/dashboard-kenya
Venezuela : https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/Venezuela%20GR2024%20Situation%20Summary%20FINAL%20v3.pdf
Meeting 9- Report 6: Transnational Inequalities & Capitals
Read chapter 1 https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2021/12/WorldInequalityReport2022_Full_Report.pdf
Select one country and explore data and trends https://wid.world
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assignments
1. Presentation of a "Policy Draft Report", to be done between meetings 5-10. Tell me which top by meeting 3!
Select a topic, a 5 minutes presentation ( 4 slides maximum), they need to address these core issue:
- Emergency: context and data
- Failure : what was necessary, what was not done, why was not done
- Policy Advice: what could be done, by whom , how
- Reference slide (not to be counted against maximum number slides)
2. Submission of a "Policy Report" before meeting 10 in December 2025
two pages report (12 fonts and use of endnotes, endnotes do not count again max length).
The report should contain the following paragraphs :
- Defining and describing the challenge
- Previous policies and relative failures
- Major impediments to have impactful policies
- Policy suggestions
Read carefully this https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/funding/resources-idrc-grantees/how-write-policy-brief
1. Presentation of a "Policy Draft Report", to be done between meetings 5-10. Tell me which top by meeting 3!
Select a topic, a 5 minutes presentation ( 4 slides maximum), they need to address these core issue:
- Emergency: context and data
- Failure : what was necessary, what was not done, why was not done
- Policy Advice: what could be done, by whom , how
- Reference slide (not to be counted against maximum number slides)
2. Submission of a "Policy Report" before meeting 10 in December 2025
two pages report (12 fonts and use of endnotes, endnotes do not count again max length).
The report should contain the following paragraphs :
- Defining and describing the challenge
- Previous policies and relative failures
- Major impediments to have impactful policies
- Policy suggestions
Read carefully this https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/funding/resources-idrc-grantees/how-write-policy-brief
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