Global Humanities - Studi umanistici globali

he course aims at providing the students with a general understanding of major developments, recent trends and challenges embedded in the democratic processes in the contemporary world, focussing on Asian Countries (India, China with Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia). The course seeks to achieve the following objectives: I. providing instruments for the comprehension of constitutional transitions and democratization, employing both the diachronic and synchronic methods of analysis typical of comparative constitutional law. II. enabling students to familiarize themselves with some recent trends in the development of rule of law and democratic pluralism in Asia III. Encouraging students to look critically at the various experiences of democracy and democratization processes in different social, political, ideological, and global contexts. Why the Focus on Asia? In the 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 – India, China and Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia - and appreciate the original Asian contributions to the ideologies of constitutionalism.