POLITICA COMPARATA E INTERNAZIONALE
9 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
STEFANIA PAOLA LUDOVICA PANEBIANCO - Module Comparative politics - SPS/04 - 3 CFU
Email: stefapnb@unict.itOffice: Via V. Emanuele 49 - 95131 Catania
Phone: 095 7347 236
Office Hours: LU - ME 10-12
DANIELA IRRERA - Module International political institutions - SPS/04 - 3 CFU
Email: dirrera@unict.itOffice: Via Vittorio Emanuele 49
Phone: 096 7347256
Office Hours: Martedì - Mercoledì 10-12
DANIELA IRRERA - Module Transnational actors - SPS/04 - 3 CFU
Detailed Course Content
- Comparative politics
The module will deepen the following topics:
- Politics, domestic and international dimensions
- Comparative research method
- Democratic and non-democratic regimes
- Conceptualization and measurement of democracy
- Democratisation processes and democratic transitions
- Interest groups as actors of political change
- International political institutions
The module analyses the following issues and concepts:
- The main theoretical paradigms and approaches;
- Peace and war;
- International cooperation;
- International and regional organisations;
- Regionalism and multilateralism;
- the globalization process;
- the global political agenda.
- Transnational actors
The module analyses the following issues and concepts:
- the global civil society; the Non-Governmenetal-Organisations (NGOs);
- global terrorism; rogue/failed States; ISIS
- the European security system;
- the United Nations system; peacekeeping/peacebuilding/peace-enforcement
- the management of global security.
Textbook Information
- Comparative politics
B. Pisciotta, P. Grilli di Cortona, O. Lanza, L. Germano, Capire la politica, Utet Università 2016
Capitoli: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8
- International political institutions
F. Attinà, Il sistema politico globale, 2011 (testo disponibile su Studium)
Capp. 1-5
- Transnational actors
F. Attinà, Il sistema politico globale, 2011 (testo disponibile su Studium)
Capp. 6-9
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