WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

Academic Year 2022/2023 - 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

 SubjectsText References
1The 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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