The course includes a part on the history of international relations of the Italian state, with particular reference to Sicily; a part on the extraordinary intervention of the State towards the South; a part on the history of organized crime and of the measures to combat the mafia implemented by the State.
- G. Barone (a cura di), Storia mondiale della Sicilia, Laterza 2018, da p. 372 a 508.
- J. Dickie, Cosa Nostra. Storia della mafia siciliana, Laterza 2017.
- G.. Barone, I quattro tempi dell'economia meridionale (scaricabile da Studium).