Syllabus
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Learning Objectives
The course covers the history of global governance 1945–2008, that is from the aftermath of World War 2 to the global financial and economic crisis of 2008 and aims at providing some of the factual grounding and conceptual apparatus necessary to better understand the contemporary world and its governance.
It will present students with the onset, changes, and evolution of the international arrangements made to govern political and economic relations (e.g. international organizations, international regimes and agreements, regional organizations) as well as the development of the bipolar world order 1947-1989 comprising hegemonic powers with clashing ideals of how to run the world.
The course will thus devote particular attention to the spreading of capitalism and socialism, decolonisation and the rise of the Third World, the remoulding of the Western system to meet these challenges. It will also devote particular attention to the exemplary regional experience that is European integration and its entanglements with global dynamics.
The course will constantly highlight the visions and interests shaping the global governance along its evolution, and bring to the fore the key actors imposing, shaping or challenging the governance rules and structures (be they governments, specific leaders, groups, movements, civil society actors, etc.).
The course will also offer two talks by distinguished guest academics on two pivotal years for political, economic and financial global relations: 1979 and 2008.
It will present students with the onset, changes, and evolution of the international arrangements made to govern political and economic relations (e.g. international organizations, international regimes and agreements, regional organizations) as well as the development of the bipolar world order 1947-1989 comprising hegemonic powers with clashing ideals of how to run the world.
The course will thus devote particular attention to the spreading of capitalism and socialism, decolonisation and the rise of the Third World, the remoulding of the Western system to meet these challenges. It will also devote particular attention to the exemplary regional experience that is European integration and its entanglements with global dynamics.
The course will constantly highlight the visions and interests shaping the global governance along its evolution, and bring to the fore the key actors imposing, shaping or challenging the governance rules and structures (be they governments, specific leaders, groups, movements, civil society actors, etc.).
The course will also offer two talks by distinguished guest academics on two pivotal years for political, economic and financial global relations: 1979 and 2008.
RAIMONDO MARIA NEIRONI
Prerequisites
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Program
Topic 1 : Post-1945 internationalism: the UN
Topic 2 : Post-1945 political order: Bipolarism, Cold War and global implications
Topic 3 : Post-1945 economic order(s): Capitalism – Bretton Woods, IMF, World Bank
Topic 5 : Post-1945 economic order(s): Socialism – Comecon and socialist globalization
Topic 6 : Post-1945 economic order(s): the North/South confrontation – UNCTAD, NIEO; G77; G7
Topic 7 : The post-Bretton Woods economic order
Topic 8 : The rise of China
Topic 9 : China and Europe: legacies and evolution
Topic 10 : China and its neighbours: economic development and regional leadership
Topic 11 : China and global governance institutions
Topic 2 : Post-1945 political order: Bipolarism, Cold War and global implications
Topic 3 : Post-1945 economic order(s): Capitalism – Bretton Woods, IMF, World Bank
Topic 5 : Post-1945 economic order(s): Socialism – Comecon and socialist globalization
Topic 6 : Post-1945 economic order(s): the North/South confrontation – UNCTAD, NIEO; G77; G7
Topic 7 : The post-Bretton Woods economic order
Topic 8 : The rise of China
Topic 9 : China and Europe: legacies and evolution
Topic 10 : China and its neighbours: economic development and regional leadership
Topic 11 : China and global governance institutions
Books
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Bibliography
Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2013,
Catherine Schenk, International Economic Relations since 1945, Routledge, 2011
Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, Penguin Books, 2012
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, Chapel Hill & London: The University of
North Carolina Press, 2001.
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate,
Routledge, 2021.
Paul Midford. Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security
Multilateralism, Stanford University Press, 2020.
Catherine Schenk, International Economic Relations since 1945, Routledge, 2011
Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, Penguin Books, 2012
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, Chapel Hill & London: The University of
North Carolina Press, 2001.
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate,
Routledge, 2021.
Paul Midford. Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security
Multilateralism, Stanford University Press, 2020.
Teaching methods
The course will combine lectures with seminar activities. Lectures will provide students with the
necessary information and reading guidelines of the phenomena under scrutiny, while seminars will see
students critically engaging with this knowledge and promoting/participating in class debates. Students
are expected and required to attend every class, come prepared to class, and participate in discussions.
Seminars include in-class assessed presentations and a final debate:
- Assessed individual presentation: Each student will give one individual assessed presentation in
which they shall critically assess the content and argument of a chosen reading from a given list
and introduce related questions for class discussion.
- Assessed group presentation: Small groups (4 or 5); instructions and topic(s) to be
communicated at the beginning of the course;
- Final debate: the last class of the course is a final debate. Each student shall participate in it,
offering their critical arguments on the topics of discussions on the base of all what they
learned throughout the course and via the previous assessed talks. Key debate questions will be
pre-circulated by the professors.
necessary information and reading guidelines of the phenomena under scrutiny, while seminars will see
students critically engaging with this knowledge and promoting/participating in class debates. Students
are expected and required to attend every class, come prepared to class, and participate in discussions.
Seminars include in-class assessed presentations and a final debate:
- Assessed individual presentation: Each student will give one individual assessed presentation in
which they shall critically assess the content and argument of a chosen reading from a given list
and introduce related questions for class discussion.
- Assessed group presentation: Small groups (4 or 5); instructions and topic(s) to be
communicated at the beginning of the course;
- Final debate: the last class of the course is a final debate. Each student shall participate in it,
offering their critical arguments on the topics of discussions on the base of all what they
learned throughout the course and via the previous assessed talks. Key debate questions will be
pre-circulated by the professors.
Exam Rules
Attending students: There is no final exam.
- In-class individual presentation (45%)
- In-class group presentation (35%)
- Participation in the final in-class discussion (20%)
Non-attending students: Final oral exam (100%).
Non-attending students shall register in Delphi for the additional exam sessions in 2024. They will have
to study two books in their entirety:
The first book: Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2013.
The second book will have to be chosen among the following:
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate, Routledge, 2021.
- In-class individual presentation (45%)
- In-class group presentation (35%)
- Participation in the final in-class discussion (20%)
Non-attending students: Final oral exam (100%).
Non-attending students shall register in Delphi for the additional exam sessions in 2024. They will have
to study two books in their entirety:
The first book: Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2013.
The second book will have to be chosen among the following:
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate, Routledge, 2021.
VALERIA ZANIER
Exam Rules
Attending students: There is no final exam.
- In-class individual presentation (45%)
- In-class group presentation (35%)
- Participation in the final in-class discussion (20%)
Non-attending students: Final oral exam (100%).
Non-attending students shall register in Delphi for the additional exam sessions in 2024. They will have
to study two books in their entirety:
The first book: Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2013.
The second book will have to be chosen among the following:
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate, Routledge, 2021.
Paul Midford. Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism,
Stanford University Press, 2020.
- In-class individual presentation (45%)
- In-class group presentation (35%)
- Participation in the final in-class discussion (20%)
Non-attending students: Final oral exam (100%).
Non-attending students shall register in Delphi for the additional exam sessions in 2024. They will have
to study two books in their entirety:
The first book: Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2013.
The second book will have to be chosen among the following:
Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate, Routledge, 2021.
Paul Midford. Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism,
Stanford University Press, 2020.