International Relations and Supranational Institutions

Educational objectives

The aim of this course is to provide students with the keys to understand contemporary
society in the organizational dynamics of order / change / conflict / integration and the
new social processes in progress, both at national and international level. Specific
attention will be given to the relationship between economy and society determined by
transnational capitalism and to the issue of war. Particular attention will be given to the
still current insights of the classics of sociological thought, in order to bring out the
historical processuality of certain phenomena, from modernity to present day.
At the end of the course, the student will have learned the fundamental determinants of
the current social change and will know how to grasp the social and cultural meaning of
the economic and war transformations of our time.

Educational objectives

The final exam consists in the elaboration of a written thesis, the result of mature critical elaboration, assigned by a supervisor on a topic agreed with the student. The thesis will be discussed, with the intervention of a co-supervisor, in front of a degree commission composed according to current regulations. The student will have three sessions available for the graduation for each academic year. These ordinary sessions are scheduled in July, October and January of each year. In addition, an extraordinary session will be scheduled in March for students who manage to finish their studies one semester early in accordance with the provisions established by the University. To participate in the graduation sessions, the student must submit the graduation application to the student secretariat in the ways and times indicated in the academic calendar for each academic year published on the website of the Department of Political Sciences https://web.uniroma1.it /disp/ The selection board will be able to award a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 11 points from the starting mark calculated from the arithmetic mean of the marks of the exams envisaged by the course, honors and if actual winners of the scholarship as an Erasmus and Erasmus student Plus. (Details are available on the Department website at https://web.uniroma1.it/disp/sites/default/files/allegati/punteggi.pdf).

Graduation exam
In order to graduate, the student must be in possession of the thesis assignment sheet signed by the professor in charge of the course who will act as supervisor. The date shown at the bottom of this sheet indicates the period from which the student started the work of the thesis.
The student can have the thesis assignment sheet signed already during the first year of the course.
The thesis assignment sheet must be signed at least 6 months before the discussion of the thesis and is valid for two academic years. The teacher will be able to sign the thesis assignment sheet only after the student has taken and passed the exam.
If, during the course of the three-year thesis, the advisor professor should be retired, he may decide to continue following the assigned thesis and be present in the degree commission within the academic year in which he was allocated in retirement or to renounce . In this second case, the teacher belonging to the same disciplinary scientific sector who will teach the subject in place of the retired colleague will assume the role of supervisor. If the subject is no longer provided, a teacher with a similar sector will be assigned by the President of the Political Science and International Relations teaching area.
The student can only ask for the thesis from a teacher with whom he has taken an exam in his/her educational path, excluding further educational activities and excluding exams belonging to the "Educational activities chosen by the student".
Students can participate in the graduation session if they meet the "Graduating" requirements as indicated in the General Manifesto of Studies for the a.y. in which she will decide to graduate. The number of credits acquired upon submission of the graduation application to the student secretariat will be equal to 88% of them net of the final exam.

Educational objectives

The course provides the theoretical notions, the methodological tools and the fundamental knowledge to frame and understand, in a comparative key, the models of territorial decentralization in the contemporary national and plurinational States, in close connection with the advancement of autonomist and separatist phenomena, which represent, in some cases, a threat not only to the territorial integrity of the States but also to the political-international stability. Special attention will be given to the reconstruction of disintegration processes of the former Yugoslav and Soviet federations and to the study secessionist phenomena that have occurred more recently in various geographical areas and territorial realities.
Attending the course will allow the student to develop specific skills and abilities that can be used in the workfield, especially to analyze and evaluate the political-international relations and the complex contemporary separatist dynamics

Educational objectives

Students will get knowledge and understanding of the Common Law Legal System, its connotations, its history and fundamental principles.
Students can develop specific competences on the common law legal system which enables them to acquire skills necessary to understand complex realities and apply this knowledge in the working field.
This course fits perfectly within the specific objectives of the Programme of Study in International Relations .

Educational objectives

The Course aims at providing instruments for the comprehension of constitutional transitions and democratization, employing both the diachronic and synchronic methods of analysis typical of comparative constitutional law.
In early 21st Century, Asian countries have developed increasingly vibrant practices of constitutional law and the overall intent of the course is that of offering an up-to-date and in-depth comprehension of recent institutional transformation occurring in the most important Countries in Asia – as India, China and Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia - and appreciate the original Asian contributions to the ideologies of constitutionalism.

Educational objectives

The main objective of the course is to teach students not only basic notions of economic relations among countries and economies, but also methodologies that are useful to understand reasons and benefits of international trade and international financial flows. Students are assumed to acquire the capability of applying the adequate formal economic models to the situations related to international economic relations.

Educational objectives

The course illustrates the most advanced theoretical interpretative tools that have been developed in the tradition of geopolitical thought. In this way, it provides a key to understanding the world's political systems and their geopolitical dynamics by introducing an academic understanding of Geopolitics.
The approach relates “real-world” events to theoretical perspectives understanding Geography as an investigation on the links between politics and space.
Therefore, the specific objectives of the course are the acquisition of critical skills and judgment on geopolitical dynamics.

Educational objectives

The course will provide students a specialistic knowledge and understanding of the international system for protecting human rights (both at universal and regional level). Special attention will be paid also to the analysis of the existing international legal framework concerning the protection of refugees, migrants, children and minorities.
After completing the course students: a) have a specialized knowledge, expecially, about the main international legal instruments relating to the protection of human rights; b) have acquired a competence on procedures, practices and the jurisprudence of the international human rights monitoring bodies (treaty bodies, Human Rights Council and regional courts); c) are able to communicate legal information; d) have developed an autonomous assessment of the main legal problems concerning the international law of human rights.

Educational objectives

The Course offers a variety of expected learning outcomes closely interdipendent with each other:
- knowledge of international economic law in its main legal and institutional issues;
- knowledge of international development law in its historical and legal evolution;
- critica analysis of the concept of “human development” as a syntesis of the interactions between international development law, international environmental law and international human rights law;
- acquisition of the competence to use the above knowledges to elaborate an international governance of the main emergencies that the international communities must face (poverty, hunger, debt of the poor countries, climate change, migratory flows, access to essential drugs, etc.) based on a critical and conscious approach;
- ability to represent this governance in a timely and effective way, even through group works.

Educational objectives

The course aims to furnish a knowledge of diplomatic and consular law, so that students will be able to clearly distinguish the most relevant aspects of this legal discipline and to provide appropriate legal solutions. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand and to interpret the main sources of diplomatic and consular law and their interplay with other norms of international law. Furthermore, they should be able to identify and critically appraise the role played by consuls and diplomats in international affairs.

The specific objective of the discipline include:

1) the knowledge and the comprehension of:

a) the definition and the historical evolution of diplomatic missions and consular institutions
b) Diplomatic law;
c) Consular law;
the doplomatic and consular law of the EU.

2) The ability to apply knowledge and comprehension through the acquisition of skills aimed to analyze and to interpret diplomatic and conular relationjs and thev main developments of this discipline.

3) the ability to exercise critical thinking through the solicitation of reflections and discussions on events relating to major diplomatic and consular issued.

Educational objectives

The course objective is twofold: on one hand it aims to consolidate and increase basic English language skills (as identified by level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference) through listening, speaking, writing and reading practices. On the other hand, the course intends to provide students with appropriate critical tools for the metalinguistic analysis of specific textual typologies typical of institutional communication (such as political speeches) conveyed through traditional and 'social' media.

The course is divided into two components: a monographic part delivered by the course lead and a part of language activities delivered by native speaker readers.

The monographic component of this course focuses on the use of language in specific politics and international relations contexts. Throughout the course, specific examples on the use of English in political, institutional, diplomatic and mass communication contexts will be analyzed from linguistic and pragmatic-discursive points of view. Through practical examples, the relationship between language and power will be highlighted with a specific focus on politics as a discursive practice.

The monographic course is accompanied by lettorati, a set of language activities aimed at developing the students' main linguistic skills (reading, writing, speaking) and focusing on consolidating English syntax, phonetics, and pragmatics.

Please note: the course is delivered jointly to first-year and second-year students (9 and 6 CFUs respectively). For differences in course delivery and assessment please read the following sections.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students an advanced knowledge of Spanish language and linguistics. It will provide them the theoretical and empirical tools to deepen, even independently, the study of Spanish and the analysis of texts and discourses for specific purposes.

Specific objectives:

a) The Spanish linguistic laboratory, held by the Expert Linguistic Collaborators, aims to develop the 4 basic skills: written and oral production and comprehension.

b) The monographic course, taught by the professor, intends to stimulate the ability to apply linguistic knowledge to the analysis of specific communication contexts and fields, namely the political one. These topics will be introduced through a variety of materials and oral and written documents in the FL to strengthen communication skills and stimulate metalinguistic reflection and individual analysis.

Exchange and active participation will also be favored through moments of confrontation with external guests.

Educational objectives

The course will be articulated according to the following levels:- presentation of the socio-historical situation and the various discourses surrounding the first wave of European colonisation: A2 level- presentation of the changes in colonial and linguistic policies after the French Revolution and study of institutional and political texts: level B1- autonomous production: exercises according to autonomous activities of analysis and written comprehension of different texts; analysis of written essays and oral expositions on texts assigned by the teacher, with a particular focus on the colonial and anti-colonial currents of the 20th century, to initiate and consolidate written production: level B1/B2- Presentation of current language policies, with reading comprehension and watching and listening (oral comprehension) to videos in various socio-political communication contexts: B1/B2 level.

The teaching aims to provide the necessary knowledge for understanding French political discourse and social and public policies on the basis of specialised texts. The teaching contributes to the further development of skills in the French language and culture (CEFR level B2-C1).

II. Lecturer’s course: Initiation and/or revision of language structures for beginners and/or intermediates. Acquisition of B2/B2+ CEFR level language skills in terms of comprehension (listening-reading), speaking (oral production), writing (oral and written translation activities and guided writing of newspaper articles).

Educational objectives

Uses and abuses of German in public communication" is the title of this course, the objectives of which have a dual character: (i) The educational objective of the monographic course aims - through the reading and discussion of texts of different types (by medium, style and size) - at the acquisition of critical, linguistic and metalinguistic tools, capable of recognizing and evaluating the content persuasive of ideologically functionalized expressions. (ii) The objective of the lectorship course (held by the linguistic expert and instructor Dott.ssa Violet Schlossarek), aims at the acquisition of language skills, in order to reach the B2 level of the CEFR.

Attendance to both courses (monographic & lettorato) is strongly recommended. Non-attending students are required to agree on the study program with their respective teachers.

Educational objectives

The course will provide the instruments of knowledge and analysis to understand the Italian institutional history since the Second World War and the institutional history of the European Union, in their interrelation. It will illustrate the constitutional history of Italy from the Constituent Assembly to date - setting it in the development process of European constitutionalism - and the genesis and evolution of the institutions of the European Union from the 1948 Hague Congress to the Treaty of Lisbon. The course will allow the student to acquire, through the evaluation of the historical origins of the current dynamics and problems, a greater level of understanding both of the Italian political system and of the European institutional model.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide knowledge of the general concepts and fundamental themes of Political Theory of the XXth century, knowledge necessary to appropriately frame the various political science disciplines and to allow students to form an autonomous vision of contemporary political problems, national and international.
Students will therefore acquire a greater critical and evaluative capacity in the specific field of their studies acquiring hermeneutical skills and strengthening their practical-applicative skills. These will be tested with discussions around the topics of the lectures and with requests for papers that the students will present on topics of their choice, coordinated with the lessons and applied to current political topics.

Educational objectives

The course objective is twofold: on one hand it aims to consolidate and increase basic English language skills (as identified by level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference) through listening, speaking, writing and reading practices. On the other hand, the course intends to provide students with appropriate critical tools for the metalinguistic analysis of specific textual typologies typical of institutional communication (such as political speeches) conveyed through traditional and 'social' media.

The course is divided into two components: a monographic part delivered by the course lead and a part of language activities delivered by native speaker readers.

The monographic component of this course focuses on the use of language in specific politics and international relations contexts. Throughout the course, specific examples on the use of English in political, institutional, diplomatic and mass communication contexts will be analyzed from linguistic and pragmatic-discursive points of view. Through practical examples, the relationship between language and power will be highlighted with a specific focus on politics as a discursive practice.

The monographic course is accompanied by lettorati, a set of language activities aimed at developing the students' main linguistic skills (reading, writing, speaking) and focusing on consolidating English syntax, phonetics, and pragmatics.

Please note: the course is delivered jointly to first-year and second-year students (9 and 6 CFUs respectively). For differences in course delivery and assessment please read the following sections.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students an advanced knowledge of Spanish language and linguistics. It will provide them the theoretical and empirical tools to deepen, even independently, the study of Spanish and the analysis of texts and discourses for specific purposes.

Specific objectives:

a) The Spanish linguistic laboratory, held by the Expert Linguistic Collaborators, aims to develop the 4 basic skills: written and oral production and comprehension.

b) The monographic course, taught by the professor, intends to stimulate the ability to apply linguistic knowledge to the analysis of specific communication contexts and fields, namely the political one. These topics will be introduced through a variety of materials and oral and written documents in the FL to strengthen communication skills and stimulate metalinguistic reflection and individual analysis.

Exchange and active participation will also be favored through moments of confrontation with external guests.

Educational objectives

The course will be articulated according to the following levels:- presentation of the socio-historical situation and the various discourses surrounding the first wave of European colonisation: A2 level- presentation of the changes in colonial and linguistic policies after the French Revolution and study of institutional and political texts: level B1- autonomous production: exercises according to autonomous activities of analysis and written comprehension of different texts; analysis of written essays and oral expositions on texts assigned by the teacher, with a particular focus on the colonial and anti-colonial currents of the 20th century, to initiate and consolidate written production: level B1/B2- Presentation of current language policies, with reading comprehension and watching and listening (oral comprehension) to videos in various socio-political communication contexts: B1/B2 level.

The teaching aims to provide the necessary knowledge for understanding French political discourse and social and public policies on the basis of specialised texts. The teaching contributes to the further development of skills in the French language and culture (CEFR level B2-C1).

II. Lecturer’s course: Initiation and/or revision of language structures for beginners and/or intermediates. Acquisition of B2/B2+ CEFR level language skills in terms of comprehension (listening-reading), speaking (oral production), writing (oral and written translation activities and guided writing of newspaper articles).

Educational objectives

Uses and abuses of German in public communication" is the title of this course, the objectives of which have a dual character: (i) The educational objective of the monographic course aims - through the reading and discussion of texts of different types (by medium, style and size) - at the acquisition of critical, linguistic and metalinguistic tools, capable of recognizing and evaluating the content persuasive of ideologically functionalized expressions. (ii) The objective of the lectorship course (held by the linguistic expert and instructor Dott.ssa Violet Schlossarek), aims at the acquisition of language skills, in order to reach the B2 level of the CEFR.

Attendance to both courses (monographic & lettorato) is strongly recommended. Non-attending students are required to agree on the study program with their respective teachers.

Educational objectives

Based on an academic understanding of geopolitics, the main objective of the course is to provide advanced theoretical interpretative tools for the comparative understanding of world political systems and their geopolitical dynamics through the methodology of empirical research.
Therefore, the acquisition of a geopolitical analysis methodology and the public communication of its outcomes become specific objectives of the course, as well as the development of critical skills and judgment on political dynamics. In this light, the global perspective of geopolitics allows the dynamics on a continental and national scale to be framed comparatively in a context provided with a general sense.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the basic knowledge for the analysis and understanding of the evolution of the international political system since the Paris Peace conference and the end of the colonial system. Particular attention will be devoted to the History of European Integration. Through the study of these topics students will be able to acquire the knowledge and the interpretative skills necessary to understand the main dynamics of history of international relations. The inclusion of on-going audits in the form of short presentations and discussions by the students will also provide the necessary critical elements and a concrete capacity for analysis.

Educational objectives

Objectives of the Course are the development of the students’ knowledge and understanding of the legal rules applicable to the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and the other celestial bodies, as well to strengthen their ability utilize at the required levels (research, study, professional work) on the main subject-matters of the discipline. Space Law constitutes indeed an essential tool to better understand the emergency and consolidation of the Space Economy and Space Diplomacy. Italy boasts a long-standing tradition of participation to space missions, as well as national excellences in the sector and in the space industry(like the VEGA launcher), and plays an active role in the international bodies dealing with space cooperation, such as the UN Committee on the peaceful uses of outer space (COPUOS), the European Space Agency (ESA), of which is the third financing member State, and the European Union, with its flag programmes Galileo and Copernicus. In this line, the main objective of the Course is a good comprehension of the rules applicable to the activities carried out by States and private entities in the outer space, with particular reference to international treaties and non-legally binding instruments, as well as national space legislation.
Articulation of the Course. The course is articulated in classroom-taught lectures, laboratories and working groups aimed at the acquisition of the methodology for analyzing correctly the main sectors of international law at large, including those of specific areas of interest. The method of teaching through classroom-taught lessons allows the transmission of the basic information to the students in a direct and engaging way. Moreover, it offers the possibility of interaction with the teacher through questions and comments.
Specific objectives. The specific objectives of the course are essentially two. First, the acquisition by the students of the necessary methodology allowing the application of the basic, as well as specialized notions of space law to the analysis of the contemporary international practice; secondly, building the students’ capacity to develop autonomous skills for the collection of the relevant data and their critical interpretation within the larger context of each individual course of study.

Educational objectives

The credits related to the laboratory can also be acquired through the laboratory indicated in the Didactic Regulations of the degree course organized by the Department of Political Sciences.

Educational objectives

The 6 credits related to seminars, traineeships, stages, relating to curriculum B can be acquired or all for internship or internship activities of at least 150 hours duration, or, through the laboratory indicated in the Didactic Regulations of the degree course organized by the Department of Political sciences. Or from cue seminars of 3 cfu each or from a seminar of 3 cfu and an internship or internship lasting at least 75 hours. The student will be able to acquire these activities starting from the first year of the course. Recognition can only take place by simultaneously delivering all documents relating to the entire 6 credits to the Secretariat.

Educational objectives

The 6 credits related to Seminars, Internships, stages, can be acquired either all for internship or training activities of at least 150 hours in duration or through seminars organized by the Department of Political Sciences with a final exam. It is possible to combine an internship and a seminar in compliance with the ratio 1 credit equals 25 hours. The recognition of the aforementioned activities will occur by delivering the relevant certificates to the student secretariat. This recognition can be requested by the student from the first year of the course. The recognition can only occur by simultaneously delivering to the Secretariat all the documents relating to the total of the 6 credits.