HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The course aims to retrace the historical itinerary of international relations in contemporary age, focusing on the dialectic between State, power and law.

International relations after the Napoleonic wars: the Concert of Europe and balance of power; European colonialism; the British hegemony in the nineteenth century, the struggle for sea control and the law of neutrality; the role of public opinion in international relations; the crucial points of the first world war: government of occupied populations, treatment of war prisoners, new generation weapons and unrestricted submarine warfare; the League of Nations and peace; the rise of international cooperation; protection of ethnic and religious minorities; the United Nations; the long road to nationalization; bipolar international system; globalization; relations between the United States and the European Union; the Israeli-Palestinian issue; international terrorism; the Middle East conflicts; the “Arab Spring”; the global economic crisis and US and European foreign policy.

E. Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Dalla fine della guerra fredda a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, pp. 5-176 and 247-314

and

S. Mannoni, Da Vienna a Monaco (1814-1938): Ordine europeo e diritto internazionale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2014, pp. 11-83 e 103-133.