HISTORY OF AFRICA

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Stefania Paola Ludovica PANEBIANCO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge of modernization, colonization and nation-state building processes in contemporary Mediterranean Africa.

Course Structure

Lectures and student-based teaching.

Required Prerequisites

Basic notions of history and geography.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended.

Detailed Course Content

This teaching course consists of two parts. Part 1 addresses Mediterranean Africa. Part 2 tackles specific topics: Middle East and North Africa, the wider Mediterranean, fragile democratization processes and persistent authoritarianism, the libyan crisis.

Textbook Information

GENERAL PART:

Anna Maria Medici, Arrigo Allotti, Mario Zamponi, L'Africa contemporanea, Le Monnier Università, 2017, pp. 357-447.

FOCUS ON THE WIDER MEDITERRANEAN: Valeria Talbot (a cura di), Mediterraneo allargato, Osservatorio di Politica internazionale, ISPI, Focus, n. 4, settembre 2023.

FURTHER READINGS (useful readings for dissertations):

Dahl R., Sulla democrazia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000.

Guazzone L., Storia contemporanea del Mondo arabo, Firenze, Mondadori Università, 2016.

Morlino L., Democrazie tra consolidamento e crisi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

Panebianco S., L'Unione Europea "potenza divisa" nel Mediterraneo, Milano, Egea, 2012.

Raineri L., La crisi libica e l'ordine internazionale, Roma, Carocci, 2022.

Tilly C., La democrazia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	Il Mediterraneo allargato: una concettualizzazione	Talbot (2023)
2	I problemi nell'agenda del Mediterraneo allargato	Talbot (2013)
3	Processi di indipendenza in Magreb e Nord Africa	Medici et als (2017)
4	Democratizzazione e rigurgiti di autoritarismo nel Mediterraneo	Medici et als (2017)
5	Le transizioni democratiche bloccate in Nord Africa	Medici et als (2017)
6	Gli attori esterni della democratizzazione	Talbot (2023)

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Attending students's knowledge is assessed via interaction in class and thematic presentations, individual or in groups. A list of appropriate readings to be presented in class will be circulated further on.

Non-attending student will be orally examined.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Independence processes in Magreb and Mashreq. Modernization and democratization processes in Middle East and North Africa. A conceptualization of wider Mediterranean. The Libyan crisis.

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

Degree Course in

History, Politics and International Relations