SCIENZE POLITICHE E SOCIALIGlobal Politics and Euro-Mediterranean RelationsAcademic Year 2022/2023
1015489 - WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES
Teacher: Fulvio ATTINA'
Expected Learning Outcomes
On ground of the bachelor studies, the student either acquires or expands the ability to analyse issues and trends of world politics. Based on the careful preparation to the Seminar, the student also acquires communication skills that are of value to jobs in government, business organizations, consultancy firms, research centres, and the media.
Course Structure
Welcome class
Session 1: World politics and the world political space
Session 2: Authority, legitimacy, and the world political order
Session 3: The life cycle of the American world order
Session 4: Order transitions. Revisionism and coalition reconfiguration
Session 5: Multilateralism, policymaking institutions, and world policies
Session 6: Problems and policies in the pipeline of multilateral institutions. The Climate change & Green transition
Session 7: Forced migration: the world-reach, difficult-to-handle problem. The EU’s inappropriate response
Session 8: Problems and policies in the pipeline: Healthcare and pandemics
Wrap-up class
Required Prerequisites
Bachelor degree preferably in the area of social sciences (politics, history, economics, law, etc.).
Attendance of Lessons
In respect of the GLOPEM rules of compulsory attendance to classes with 30% deductibility, the students must attend the lecture and seminar classes and do the seminar-preparation homework.
Detailed Course Content
This Course offers advanced knowledge about the present-day politics and policymaking of the world polity. Emphasis is on the political science scholarship addressing the formation and operation of the world-reach policymaking institutions at the time of the world order transition.
Textbook Information
The WIP Companion Book 22 is the assemblage of excerpts from political science articles and books. It is provided by the instructor in digital form to the students for their own use in this Course.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References |
1 | The eight Sessions of the Course consist of the Friday Lecture and Thursday Seminar. | |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Evaluation in progress.
The student assessment and final grade is based on the active participation in the classroom and the quality of the homework.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
The homework consists in reading the session chapter of the WIP Companion Book 22 and expressing the own point of view with words and images on a few-slide PowerPoint (Ppt) file.
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