Internationalisms, the Cold War, and the history of the Italian Republic (Ordinario)
Prerequisiti
Course for regular students from the first to the fifth year
Programma
The course will explore the interaction between national and international politics since the birth of the Italian Republic. It will examine how national bipolarity reflected international bipolarity with the onset of the Cold War, and how this duality persisted over time. The course will trace the evolution of national and international bipolarity from 1945 to the end of the Cold War. In this context, the course will examine the rise and fall of liberal, communist, and catholic internationalisms, analyzing theirs connection to the history of the Italian Republic. Lectures will be supplemented with primary source analysis and historiographical discussions.
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims to introduce students to the Cold War and how it influenced - and was influenced in return - by Italian domestic politics from the late 1940s to the end of the 1980s. Students will also learn about the different methods, interpretive frameworks, and sources used to study contemporary history.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo 1776-2016, Laterza, 2017
Guido Formigoni, Storia d’Italia nella guerra fredda (1943-1978), Il Mulino, 2016
Sara Lorenzini, Una strana guerra fredda. Lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud, Il Mulino, 2017
Mark Mazower, Governing the World. The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present, Penguin, 2012
Silvio Pons, I comunisti italiani e gli altri. Visioni e legami internazionali nel mondo del Novecento, Einaudi, 2021
Federico Romero, Storia della guerra fredda. L’ultimo conflitto per l’Europa, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History, Allen Lane, 2017