HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MOD.2

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Contents

Educational Goals

The course concerning the Mediterranean area will analyse the identities, the reality and the prospects of the Mediterranean Region. History becomes an instrument to study: 1) the Mediterranean area as laboratory for international and intercultural relations; 2) the development of the U.S. foreign politics with special attention to the Mediterranean countries; 3) the international relations of the Mediterranean area from the birth of the U. S. diplomacy to the relations with Russia and Soviet Union.

Requirements

Good knowledge of global history of 18th-20th centuries

Contents

The Mediterranean Region: reality, development and prospects. Mediterranean Geopolitics during the 18th and 20th centuries. Origins, development and functions of the diplomacy. Origins of the diplomacy and his action in the Mediterranean area. Mediterranean Region and Mediterranean Diplomacy in the 20th century

Recommended Reading List

- GRYGIEL, J. J., "Great Powers and Geopolitical Change", John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2006
- BIN, A., "`Mediterranean Diplomacy?. Evolution and Prospects" (Jean Monnet Working Papers in Comparative and International Politics), January 1997 (http://www.fscpo.unict.it/EuroMed/jmwp05.htm)
- MOULAKIS, A., "The Mediterranean Region: Reality, Delusion, or Euro-Mediterranean Project",in: Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2005, pp. 11-38 (http://mq.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/16/2/11)

Assessment

oral

Teaching Methods

Conventional

Teaching Language

English/Italian