Scienze Politiche e delle Relazioni Internazionali | HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF AFRO-ASIATIC COUNTRIES

cod. 1212100022

HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF AFRO-ASIATIC COUNTRIES

	1212100022
	DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE POLITICHE, SOCIALI E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

	POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE
	2014/2015

CURRICULUM ECONOMIA E POLITICHE PER LO SVILUPPO

	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2008
	PRIMO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	SPS/13	5	40	LESSONS	OPTIONAL SUBJECTS

	Objectives
	THE COURSE FOCUSES ON THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION THAT CHARACTERIZED ASIA AND AFRICA FROM THE SECOND POST-WAR PERIOD; SPECIAL ATTENTION IS PAID TO THE DYNAMICS OCCURRING IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE CURRENT TRANSFORMATION PROCESS CALLED ARAB SPRING.

	Prerequisites
	IT RESULTS USEFUL THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AS WELL.

	Contents
	THE COURSE IS CONSTITUTED BY A SINGLE MODULE: MODULE ONE PROGRAM: - DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE ISLAMIC AREA AFTER WORLD WAR II. - THE BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL - NASSER AND PAN-ARABISM - THE BAATH PARTY AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD - FROM THE SUEZ CRISIS TO THE SIX-DAY WAR - THE OIL ISSUE - THE ROLE OF SAUDI ARABIA - THE BIRTH OF THE PLO - THE UNITED STATES AND THE MIDDLE EAST - SADAT AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR - THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE PROCESS - SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THE GULF WARS - KHOMEINI AND ISLAM - THE ARAB SPRING.

THE COURSE IS CONSTITUTED BY A SINGLE MODULE:

MODULE ONE
PROGRAM:

- DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE ISLAMIC AREA AFTER WORLD WAR II.
- THE BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
- NASSER AND PAN-ARABISM
- THE BAATH PARTY AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
- FROM THE SUEZ CRISIS TO THE SIX-DAY WAR
- THE OIL ISSUE
- THE ROLE OF SAUDI ARABIA
- THE BIRTH OF THE PLO
- THE UNITED STATES AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- SADAT AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR
- THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE PROCESS
- SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THE GULF WARS
- KHOMEINI AND ISLAM
- THE ARAB SPRING.

	Teaching Methods
	THE COURSE IS COMPOSED OF N. 40 OF LECTURES.

	Verification of learning
	ORAL EXAM.

	Texts
	LIBRI DI TESTO CONSIGLIATI - M. CAMPANINI, STORIA DEL MEDIO ORIENTE, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA, 2010; POI UNO A SCELTA TRA: SHADY HAMADI, LA FELICITÀ ARABA, ADD EDITORE, TORINO, 2013; ANNA VANZAN, LE DONNE DI ALLAH, BRUNO MONDADORI, MILANO 2013.