Political Sciences and International Security

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.