HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The course focuses on the study of the rise of modern nation-state, international conflicts and conflict resolution and on the review of key periods in the history of international relations and international law from 1814 to 1945.

Frontal lessons.

International relations: themes and theories; sovereignty and nation-states; war at the sea and the law of neutrality; arbitration and international cooperation; the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe; international actors and the distinction between uncivilized, semi-civilized, civilized countries; public opinion support; the First World War; the League of Nations; the crisis and end of the Ottoman Empire; the Great Depression; the international crises of the 1930s; the Second World War.

- S. Mannoni, Da Vienna a Monaco (1814-1938): Ordine europeo e diritto internazionale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2014, pp. 11-83 e 91-133.

and one reading chosen from :

- E. Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Dalla pace di Versailles alla conferenza di Postdam. 1919-1945, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2015, pp. 5-286.

- E. Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Dalla pace di Versailles alla conferenza di Postdam. 1919-1945, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2015, pp. 287-532.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.