International Studies

This course provides an overview of the history and major issues in Korea-US relations. The first half of the course deals with the late nineteenth century up to the 1980`s. The second half discusses various contemporary issues related to the two countries, including security, trade, Korean nationalism, immigration, North Korea`s nuclear program, and territorial disputes, among many others. Topics include security, trade, Korean nationalism, immigration, North Korea`s nuclear program, and territorial disputes, among others.

This course discusses causes and impacts of globalization on the interaction between the power of market and the states. The course explores how state institutions cope with the forces of globalization. It also investigates novel regulations and orders of the global governance.

Because there is a high concentration of international actors in Geneva, it is often known as one of the capitals of global governance. This course offers an understanding about the world of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations while detailing the main issues of global governance. In order to fully comprehend what is at stake, this course adds academic training to general information. Students benefit from the extensive experience of well-known officials belonging to international organizations and nongovernmental organizations as well as an analysis from professors. The pedagogical approach in this course is interdisciplinary including history, political science, economy, and law, and includes visits to several international organizations. Topics include human rights and humanitarian law, global health, science and diplomacy, migrations and international labor, and international trade and development.

This course offers a comparative, transnational study of the dramatic social, scientific, political, and cultural transformations that occurred in the two decades or so following World War II. By focusing on Japan's global moment in the 1960s, it includes some of the following topics: the Cold War and the Space Race, the reshaping of the Middle-East, the Cultural Revolution in China, decolonization in Africa, dictatorship and Liberation Theology in Latin America, the global civil rights movement, the New Right, the environmental movement, consumerism, counter-culture and the student protest movements that took place around the world.
 

This course examines multiple contexts of the Global Sixties in the collective efforts to map out the simultaneity of revolutionary transformation and conflict, while developing a methodological approach for researching and interpreting change from a variety of national/local perspectives. It particularly focuses on the travels of individuals who saw themselves as part of an international community of antiwar activists and antiracism causes.

This class also examines how actual interactions among people from Japan and other Third World countries inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions, challenging the political commitments and personal relationships of individual activists.

This course examines the formulation and development of United States foreign policy from the American founding to the present day. It explores case studies and crises that have tested and reshaped American leadership in the world including the territorial expansion of the United States, the two world wars, the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union and its satellites; the Korean War; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Vietnam War; the collapse of Soviet Communism; tensions in the Middle East; the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and the ongoing rise of China and Russia’s war in Ukraine. It also traces the roots of America’s ascent to superpower status during the 20th century and assesses the many dilemmas it faces in the present day as US foreign policy has veered from the Trump administration’s authoritarian populism to the Biden presidency and its return to liberal internationalism. The course also studies how American responses to world affairs–and American interactions with other governments, regions and international institutions–have evolved across generations. 

This course aims to highlight the importance of communication with stakeholders and an understanding of public relations methods. The course utilizes various media to acquire basic knowledge of effective public relations.

Communication is the key to any organization’s success. With the diversification of societal needs and business environment, it is crucial for companies to implement an effective public relations strategy as part of their management strategy and to build a trust-based relationship with stakeholders. For effective public relations/corporate communications, companies need to understand mass media and social media, with the latter receiving considerable attention from the business world as a direct and fast-acting communication channel with their high-priority stakeholders.

 

This pilot course introduces cutting-edge approaches to analyze and devise responses in relation to conflict and violence, with a particular focus on digital instruments. Students will learn emerging concepts and techniques in various fields, from peacemaking to peacekeeping; peacebuilding; disarmament; human rights, and disaster relief, as well as associated risks and benefits. The course includes active learning elements, whereby students will interact with guest lecturers from the UN, research institutes, and aid groups, while practicing skills for open-source investigation.

This class presents the main principles of international political economy, also known as global political economy, which studies globalization and the reciprocal interaction between international relations, economics, and politics. Gathering knowledge from history, international relations, politics, economics, and sociology in an innovative way, the course provides a broad overview of the frameworks of analysis, actors, institutions, issues, and processes responsible for international relations, the causes of war, inter-state economic competition, and the structural configuration of power in the global context. It analyzes global affairs from a three-dimensional perspective: statist logic, market logic, and institutional logic. The course relies on readings, class debates, and the study of factual cases to develop academic skills and apply these skills for professional outcomes. 

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. The course explores some of the main dimensions of Soviet and Russian history in the 20th century. The course provides an overview of the social and political evolution of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 and its legacy for post-Soviet Russia. The course discusses topics including: the main stages of social changes and political governance from the 1917 Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union; the social and political legacies of the Soviet experience for Russia after 1991; the major scholarly debates on State/society relationships; and how to contextualize Soviet social and political history in a broader framework, analyzing key junctures when Soviet international concerns or ambitions interacted with its domestic agenda.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The course provides an advanced and critical overview and understanding of the role of victims of crime and abuse of power, social exclusion, and repression in contemporary society with regards to the main theoretical approaches in the discipline as a reflection of the changing of structure dynamics and relations at all level in the "global era". The course provides the skills to: analyze processes of victimization in contemporary societies in a broader political and socio-economic context; set the peculiar condition of victims in the frame of multiple interactions with regards to national and supra national institutions; recognize the ambivalence of victims’ role inside the judiciary and criminal justice systems in a comparative perspective; apply the “new” victimology of human rights in an original and interdisciplinary approach that transcends current official and social perspectives of victimization and its sources.