Corso di laurea: Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations Programmazione per l'A.A. 2022/2023

Alcuni discorsi importanti da politici del 20/21° secolo: Tony Benn, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, Theresa May. Studio del contesto sociale dei vari interventi e l'applicazione della metodologia critica.

Martin Luther King: I have a dream
Winston Churchill: Their Finest hour
Malcolm X: The ballot or the bullet
Theresa May: Brexit address
Tony Benn: The miners' strike

Tutela regionale dei diritti umani. I sistemi regionali di protezione.

R. Pisillo Mazzeschi, International Human Rights Law - Theory and Practice, Giappichelli, Springer, 2021, p. 211 to 544. Il testo contiene una ricca bibliografia finale, comprensiva di casi concreti, di ausilio allo studente nella preparazione dell'esame finale.

Parte generale.

Le fonti del diritto internazionale dei diritti umani: consuetudine
internazionale e norme di jus cogens, trattati, atti di organizzazioni
internazionali e soft law. Coordinamento tra le diverse fonti internazionali e
il loro rapporto con gli ordinamenti statali. L'interpretazione delle norme
internazionali in materia di diritti umani, con particolare riferimento ai
trattati.

Sfera soggettiva di applicazione delle norme internazionali in materia
di diritti umani: soggetti destinatari e soggetti beneficiari di tali norme.

Il sistema di protezione dei diritti umani dell’O.N.U., principalmente
la Dichiarazione universale dei diritti dell’uomo del 1948 e i Patti sui
diritti civili e politici e sui diritti economici, sociali e culturali del
1966.

Gli orientamenti giurisprudenziali più significativi su alcuni diritti
umani, quali il diritto alla vita e la pena di morte, il divieto di tortura e
di trattamenti crudeli e disumani, la libertà di pensiero, di coscienza e di
religione e la libertà di espressione.

Meccanismi di controllo e strumenti di
garanzia del diritto internazionale dei diritti umani.

SHELTON D. L., Advanced
Introduction to International Human Rights Law, Cheltenham-Northampton, 2020;
oppure

PUSTORINO P., Introduction to International Human Rights Law, TMC Asser
Press, 2023 (in corso di pubblicazione).

Francofonie transnazionali: immaginari linguistici attraverso media, letterature e traduzioni

In recent years, humanitarian interventions have gained a high attention in global politics and Euro-Mediterranean relations. Humanitarian personnel - lawyers, doctors, social workers, activists, etc. - striving for human rights, public health, and the security of civilians in endangered environments are more and more involved in a massive institutional apparatus, with an array of funding mechanisms and transnational intervention logics. Humanitarianism, however, has existed for centuries before formally arising in the first half of the 20th century, and has crossed into various ethical, political, and cultural frontiers and problematics.This course contributes to the understanding of humanitarian governance, offering an introduction to anthropological theories that analyze the socio-cultural stakes of humanitarian aid. It will focus on the concept of “humanitarianism” to analyze the transformations of the intervention logics and “need-to-help” reasons in the field of international cooperation in response to humanitarian crises at global level, and in the Mediterranean area more specifically.Students will be asked to read and discuss ethnographic case studies in different regional contexts (from disaster relief to post-war interventions) which focus on diverse fields of humanitarian intervention: migrations and forced displacement, environmental crises and natural disasters, human-rights violation, and the care and housing of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Particular attention will be given to the ways in which different notions of vulnerability, emergency, relief, recovery, justice are mobilized in these fields, both in practices and discourses, in order to consider the fundamental anthropological and power-related implications of humanitarian work.

Reading materials (short papers and book chapters) will be assigned to individual students before the course seminars

Il corso mira a fornire le basi analitiche e metodologiche per interpretare le caratteristiche, gli obiettivi e i risultati prodotti dalle politiche sociali. Il corso inizialmente introduce i concetti fondamentali e gli approcci utilizzati in materia di politica sociale e progressivamente offre strumenti e metodi per l’analisi comparata nei vari settori d’intervento “sociale”. Il corso vuole offrire una prospettiva di analisi in materia di politica sociale che tenga conto degli assetti organizzativi, del ruolo della street-level bureaucracy e della cultura giuridica nella comparazione tra i vari interventi di politica sociale. Infine, il corso mira a esplicitare il ruolo del diritto nella erogazione di prestazioni socioassistenziali e formulare ipotesi per la sua ricostruzione ed analisi nei vari sistemi di welfare.

Baldock et al.Social Policy, Oxford UniversityPress, 2012 chap. 1.3.17.18.20;
L.Bifulco,Social Policies ancd Public Action,Routlledge2017, Chapter 10 “Back to the Social”pp. 139-149
Lipsky M.,Street level bureaucracy, “Introduction” pp. 1-10
LadeurK-H., «Thepost-modernadministrativelaw» inLaw, Legal culture and Society,Routledge2019 pp.156-170.
Baglioni S., Sinclair S "Social Innovation and Social Policy" (eds) Policy Press, 2018pp. 35- 61

The course will examine the main features of the sociological analysis of economic phenomena and of the main differences in the organization of the capitalist system between convergence and diversity through the conceptual and analytical categories of economic sociology and in particular comparative political economy. Moreover, the course aims at providing students with the theoretical and methodological basis for the analysis of labor policies (models, features, objectives, effects).

The perspective of Economic Sociology and the organization of the capitalist system

Varities of Capitalisms

Capitalism and Ecological Transition

Notions, indicators, data sources, etc. of labour market and policies

Occupational models and welfare regimes in transition

The European Employment Strategy and “flexicurity"

Digital Transition and Labour market regulation in the EU

Trigilia C., Economic Sociology, Blackwell, 2002, from page 1 to 35, from page 119 to 134, from page 237 to 255
Crouch C., Capitalist Diversity and Change, Oxford, 2005, from page 1 to 45.
Hancke, Debating Varieties of Capitalism, Oxford UP, 2009 (only chapter 1, 2, 8 and 9)
P. De Beer, T. Schils, The labour market triangle. Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Edward
Elgar, 2009, pp. 1-25 (C. 1) and 198-220 (C. 9).
F. Berton, M. Richiardi, S. Sacchi, The political economy of work security and flexibility, The Policy Press, 2012, pp. 1-60 (Cs. 1-3) and 147-153 (C. 8).
Clasen Clegg, Regulating the Risk of Unemployment, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 1-12 (C. 1) and pp. 333-345 (C. 17)

The course will provide students with the tools and the coordinates to reconstruct thehistorical roots of contemporary reality, through a comparative perspective and thanksto Global history approach. Because of the integrated look at the processes oftransformation on an international and transnational scale, this discipline is able to offera multifaceted and complex portrait of the world in transition.The course will be organized into three parts:1. The first part will have an introductory and methodological nature. Students will beguided to discover methods, contents and approach of the Global history, as well as itsdevelopment and main areas of application.What does Global history represent today? What is the difference between thisdiscipline and the other historiographical approaches? What can the discipline offerscholars, and especially students of global politics and international relations? Whereand how is this discipline practiced, and with what results? These are the questions thatthe course will answer, through the analysis of some salient aspects of the discipline. Inparticular, the lessons will focus on the following topics:- World history, Global history and the history of globalization;- The lexicon of Global history;- Space in Global history;- Time in Global history;- Global history: approaches, theories and paradigms;- Development of the discipline since the 1990s;- Disputes and critical issues;- Fields and themes of Global history:2. The second part of the course will analyze the complex forces and the processes thatdrove global change between the 19th and 21th centuries. Students will analyze theconstruction of nation states and empires in comparative perspective, as well as the migratory phenomena, the history of social and political movements, the relationships between human beings and nature and gender relations. Why are some Countries rich and others poor? What is meant by ‘Great divergence’? What factors allowed Europe first – and then North America – to make the great leap towards industrialization and social development? For what reasons do these decades see the emergence of Countries (such as India, China, BRICS) that are reshaping the world geography of wealth? Does the map of economic development coincide with that of political, social and cultural development? What trajectories has the affirmation of human rights followed? What obstacles have they encountered? To what extent have the contaminations between different geographical areas (migrations, network) influenced the scientific and cultural climate? The course will answer these questions by adopting a global reading perspective. The lessons will focus on the following themes:- The emergence of the West and the extension of the industrialization process;- Imperial sistem and nation-states;- The change in international hegemony between the 19th and 21th centuries;- Late development: the case of Russia and Japan;- Expansion, Crisis and Renewal: the British Empire in the perspective of Globalhistory;- The affirmation of the “Asian tigers” and the emergence of China;- Networks and Migrations;- Citizenship, Rights, Gender;- Nature, Environment, Resources;- Sciences, Religion, Arts.With reference to this part of the course, students will use course lecture notes providedby the professor, with a collection of essays and chapters taken from the most importantcontributions relating to Global history.3. The third part of the course includes the more active participation of students. Thanksto the theoretical and methodological tools previously acquired, students will be guidedin the preparation of a research (individually, or in working groups) concerning one ofthe topics covered during the course. The presentation of the research will be an integralpart of the final evaluation, and and it will be accompanied by an oral exam on the otherparts of the program

Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History?, Princeton University PressCourse notes by teacher available on Studium

Il corso, che si compone di 3 parti (9 CFU), inizia dalla storia dei diritti naturali occidentali del secolo XVII, con riferimenti anche a epoche antecedenti, e termina con i recenti dibattiti di età contemporanea. Particolare enfasi, nella seconda e terza parte del corso, è attribuita alle dichiarazioni dei diritti dell'uomo e del cittadino, all'UDHR che ha celebrato il suo 70 ° anniversario qualche anno orsono, fino a toccare temi di grande attualità quale il rapporto tra diritti umani e Green New Deal. Nonostante dei diritti umani si continui a discutere e a dibattere, la loro lunga storia è stata spesso non sufficientemente analizzata e a volte persino dimenticata. I diritti umani piuttosto che essere considerati un fenomeno del ventesimo secolo, come alcuni autori affermano, possono rappresentare anche quel punto massimo di sviluppo raggiunto dalla legge e dal diritto naturale occidentale nonché un importante e peculiare momento di transizione verso le più recenti nozioni di diritti umani. Il corso è strutturato in lezioni frontali con presentazioni PPT, workshop, dibattiti in classe e simulazioni.

Micheline Ishay, The History ofHuman Rights from ancient times to the globalization era, University of California Press, 2008Samuel Moyn,The Last Utopia - Human Rights in History,Harward University Press, 2012 (paperback edition)Lynn Hunt,Inventing Human Rights - A History, W W Norton &Co, 2008.Lynn Hunt,The French Revolution and Human Rights,Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996.ESSAYES AND PAPERSLeonard Krieger, Kant and the Crisis of Natural law, Journal of the History of Ideas, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.Stephen P. Marks,From the "single confused page" to the "Decalogue for six billion persons": The Roots of the UDHR in the French Revolution, Human Rights Quarterly,1998.Maurice Cranston,Are there any Human Rights?Daedalus, vol. 112, n.4, Human Rights, 1983.John B. Noone, Rousseau's Theory of Natural Law as a Conditional, Journal of the History of Ideas, 1972.Brian Tierney, Natural Law and Natural Rights: Old problems and recent Approaches, pubblished on line by Cambridge University Press, 2009.Richard Tuck,Natural Rights Theories : Their Origin and Development, Cambridge University Press, 1981.Mark Tunik,John Locke and the Right to bear arms,History of Political Thought, 2014.

PART 1. Pillars concepts in Peace EconomicsPART 2. Keynes 1919 The Economic Consequences of PeacePART 3. Basic empirical and theoretical evidence on InequalitiesPART 4. UN-World Bank Report

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Piketty, T. (2017). Capital in XXI Century, Harvard
University Press, Introdution & Chapter 1, 7, 10.

The course will explore globalization as a material phenomenon and as a
political project using cities as unit of analysis. It will consider the
new global interconnections, globalization and the creation of new
tensions and divisions as well as new forms of integration. Giving
particular emphasis to the analysis of the relationship between cities
and globalization the course tackles questions regarding cities
considered both as actors of globalization and places where
globalization takes place.

Text: Rossi U., Vanolo A., Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective. London: Sage.

A selection of scientific and newspaper articles will be provided during the course