- Docente: Elena Baracani
- Crediti formativi: 4
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
International relations (cod. 9084)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in International relations (cod. 9084)
Laurea Magistrale in Politica, amministrazione e organizzazione (cod. 9085)
Laurea Magistrale in Politica, amministrazione e organizzazione (cod. 9085)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Workshops are designed to provide students with transversal skills that can prove useful in their future careers. The objective of the workshop is to help students to practice skills through application of information technology, data analysis, decision-making techniques (e.g. simulation) in complex organizations.
Contenuti
In the first week it will be introduced the workshop and its actor constructivist approach to the study of EU foreign policy
The second and third week will be dedicated to groups' presentations on Allison's models and on the role of ideas in foreign policy-making
During the remaining weeks students will apply the actor constructivist approach to the study of the EU reaction to the war on Ukraine
At the end of the workshop students will present their main findings in the framework of a public event
Detailed instructions on the students' activities will be provided at the beginning of the course
Testi/Bibliografia
- Allison, G. (1971). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1ed. Little Brown, chapters, 1, 3 and 5
- Baracani, E. (2017), 'Graham Allison: Conceptual Frameworks of Foreign Policy Decision Making', in F. Andreatta (ed.) Classic Works in International Relations, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 127-154
- Del Reux, T. (2015), 'Bureaucratic Politics, New Institutionalism and Principal-Agent Models', in Jørgensen K., Aarstad A., Drieskens E., Laatikainen K., Tonra B., The SAGE Handbook on European Foreign Policy, pp. 152-165
- Goldstein, J. and Keohane, R.O. (eds) (1993) Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, chapter 1
- Schmidt, V.A. (2008) ‘Discursive institutionalism: the explanatory power of ideas and discourse’, Annual Review of Political Science, 11, 303–326
- Surel, Y. (2000) ‘The role of cognitive and normative frames in policy-making’, Journal of European Public Policy, 7 (4), 495–512.
- White, B. (1999), 'The European Challenge to Foreign Policy Analysis', European Journal of International Relations, 5(1), pp. 37-66
- Young, O.R. (2017) Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (chapter 6)
Metodi didattici
- Students' presentations (in groups)
- Class debates
- This workshop is only for attending students
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
- Students are expected to attend every session regularly and to participate in class debate
- In addition, each student will have to prepare group's presentations
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
- Power point presentations as well as additional material will be available on Virtuale
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Elena Baracani
SDGs


L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.