STRATEGIA E STORIA DELLE RELAZIONI COMMERCIALI

Detailed Course Content

• Institutions and Governance of Global Trade

  The Module on International Political Science seeks to analyze international organizations and the international governance of global trade, focusing on the dynamics producing global trade, relations among the main global traders, processes of transformation of global trade. The main aim is to understand the international political phenomena through a clear and convincing theoretical framework. Specific topics are: International Organizations and Global Trade; the EU as a global trader; the IMF and financial assistance; the WB and fight to poverty; the OMC and intellectual property; regional organizations and economic integration; international organizations and the governance of the international system.

  Objectives: to acquire knowledge on the theoretical debate on global trade and the relevant literature, to critically understand relations among actors, to explain global trade negotiations. Actors and processes are to be analysed by applying the main analytical catheogries International Political Science. Students must elaborate mini-essays to illustrate crucial topics of global trade via an original bibliographical research and an original analysis.

• STORIA CONTEMPORANEA

  Global economic - Economic policy of the states - Multinational Corporations - Financial Markets - Economic italian growth.

Textbook Information

• Institutions and Governance of Global Trade

  - Belloni R., Moschella M. and Sicurelli D. (eds.), Le organizzazioni internazionali: struttura, funzioni, impatto, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013, capitoli: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13

  - Poletti Arlo, ‘L’Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio: sfide a prospettive tra legalizzazione e regionalismo’, in Zambernardi L. (ed.) Scenari di transizione , Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012

  - Ravenhill John, Economia Politica Globale, Guerini Scientifica, Milano, 2013, capp. 5, 6, pp. 139-200.

• STORIA CONTEMPORANEA
  1. "Storia economica contemporanea: le tre rivoluzioni",dossier available on the site Studium Unict
  2. "Il commercio estero italiano e la storia dell'ICE", dossier available on the site Studium Unict
  3. William J. Bernstein, Il lauto scambio. Come il commercio ha rivoluzionato il mondo, Marco Tropea Editore, 2010.