WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Fulvio Attinà
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: SPS/04 - Political science
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Detailed Course Content

This course offers to students advanced knowledge of political science about the key policy-making institutions and selected policies of the world political system. Focus is on the lessening throughput of American hegemony institutions and policies and on the next structure of government of the global political system.


Textbook Information

  • Attinà Fulvio (2011), The global political system, Palgrave Macmillan (chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
  • Ayoob Mohammed (2007), Challenging hegemony: political Islam and the North-South divide, in “International Studies Review”, 9, 4, 616-628.
  • Chase-Dunn Christopher and Kirk S. Lawrence (2011), The Next Three Futures, Part Two: Possibilities of Another Round of US Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy, in “Global Society”, 25, 3, 269-286.
  • Nexon Daniel H. and Iver B. Neumann (2017), Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account, in “European Journal of International Relations”.