POLITICA COMPARATA E INTERNAZIONALE

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