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Strategic Management deals with the organization, management, and strategic positioning of the firm so as to gain long-term competitive advantage. This course examines how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage; analyzes strategic business situations and strategy formation; and how to implement strategy and organize the firm for strategic success. 

Climate change is one of the most important challenges we face. The effects of climate change vary over time and space, and are rooted in the operation and sensitivity of the climate system itself. This course first gives students a fundamental understanding of Earth’s climate system and then investigates the history of climate on Earth and how (and why) climate changes over time. Students explore historical records of climate before turning their focus to future climate projections, including how models predict future climate scenarios.
Students also evaluate what implications future climate projections may have for communities both locally and globally. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. Globalization has led to a broad transfer of policy making authority from the domestic to the global sphere. This power shift has facilitated review by global authorities of domestic decisions, but it has also shielded many global policy making processes from domestic monitoring and reviewing mechanisms. The course examines the roles of domestic courts and institutions, global tribunals and arbitration panels, global monitoring bodies and other global organizations, private organizations and NGOs in responding to the accountability gaps and opportunities created by globalization. Topics include: presentation and discussion of the different theories on the opposite trends described as internationalization of Constitutional law and “constitutionalization” of International Law; presentation and discussion of four national Constitutional law categories which have changed due to the globalization of political and judicial decisions: popular sovereignty; rule of law; the role of the Parliament; the role of the Constitutional court.

This course provides a detailed understanding of the European jihadi phenomenon, from its inception during the war in Afghanistan (1979) to the fall of ISIS (2019) and its current reconfigurations on the Old Continent (2020-2023). It is the results of a decade of on-the-ground research, it explores the way jihadi groups and organizations spread their ideas throughout the Old Continent, from the French “banlieues” to the British and Belgian inner cities, and from the German countryside to the Scandinavian metropolitan area. The course also covers female activism, online activism, and the way jihadism functions behind bars. It points out the poorly understood centrality of prisons in the making of European Jihadism and its current reconfigurations since the fall of ISIS. The course introduces jihadism and its key concepts, including pre-modern Islamic theology and jurisprudence to demonstrate how these references were appropriated and repurposed by jihadi ideologues for political ends. It concludes on the current debates in Europe surrounding jihadism and Islamism in the wake of the killing of Samuel Paty in France and subsequent attack in Vienna, Austria.

This course critically explores the history and current state of political geography and geopolitics and examines empirical issues from the vantage point of the spatiality and materiality of politics and power. The course develops the complementary insights that politics and power are fundamentally spatial, that geographical phenomena have political dimensions and implications, and that geographic space is infused with both power and political potential.

This course examines the relationship between art and political struggle in the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring how practitioners around the globe have contributed to socio-cultural change and forged new ways of seeing. It addresses how artists, architects, photographers, and designers have responded to the increasingly industrialized and fast-paced nature of modern and contemporary experience, and how this has led to a constant re-evaluation of what might be expected of art. Each week is devoted to a specific theme, including modernism, the metropolis, materiality, protest, dissent, and globalization.

This course provides an advanced evaluation of psychological knowledge on human reasoning that builds on the foundation provided in the PS1234 Thinking module. It familiarizes students with the core theoretical and methodological issues in the scientific study of human reasoning and decision making. The course helps students to develop a critical assessment of experiments on human social reasoning, including moral judgment, intentional reasoning, and reasoning about social dilemmas. It facilitates students in the formulation of rigorous evaluations of experimental studies of human hypothetical thought, including conditional reasoning, counterfactual thought, causal reasoning, and argumentation. It fosters a critical appreciation of experimental investigations of decision making, including planning and risky choices