The Twilight of Internationalism

The Twilight of Internationalism

Visions and Projects of World Order at the End of the 20th Century

The Twilight of Internationalism
Visions and Projects of World Order at the End of the 20th Century
 

  • Alessandra Bitumi - Università di Teramo
  • Chiara Bonfiglioli - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
  • Jean-Pierre Cabestan - Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Paolo Capuzzo - Università di Bologna
  • Laura Chiara Cecchi - Università di Trento
  • Ettore Costa - Scuola Superiore Meridionale
  • Mario Del Pero - Sciences Po – Paris
  • Michele Di Donato - Università Roma3
  • Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann - University of California
  • Sara Lorenzini - Università di Trento
  • Francesco Magno - Università di Trento
  • Ferdinando Maieron - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Martina Marchesi - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Timothy Nunan - Regensburg University
  • Kiran Patel - Ludwig Maximilian University - Munich
  • Silvio Pons - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Jessica Reinisch - Birkbeck, University of London
  • Angela Romano - Università di Bologna
  • Federico Romero - European University Institute
  • Bruno Settis - Università di Pavia
  • Gregorio Sorgonà - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Samuele Sottoriva - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Roberto Ventresca - Università di Bologna

 

PROGRAM

Day one, 5 June
9.00am 
Introduction
Silvio Pons, Paolo Capuzzo, Sara Lorenzini

9.30am-12.30pm
Michele Di Donato (Università Roma3), A Strange Defeat? The Decline of Global Social Democracy in the Age of Globalization
Ettore Costa (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Regulating Globalization or adapting to it? The Third Way and its opponents in the Socialist International debates
Samuele Sottoriva (Scuola Normale Superiore), The Socialist International in the 1990s: a Global Organization on the Wane
Roberto Ventresca (Università di Bologna), Navigating the Market Order in the Post-Cold War Era: the PDS in the Early 1990s
Gregorio Sorgonà (Scuola Normale Superiore), Europeanism as Internationalism in the political culture of the post-communist Italian Left

Discussant Alessandra Bitumi (Università di Teramo)

12.30pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-3pm Keynote Speech 
Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po – Paris), Paradoxes of hegemony and interdependence: Rethinking US Power in the Post–Cold War Order

3pm - 6pm
Ferdinando Maieron (Scuola Normale Superiore), Gorbachev, Mitterrand and Post-Cold War Europe
Martina Marchesi (Scuola Normale Superiore), The Demise of the New International Economic Order and the Legacy of Third World political projects
Laura Chiara Cecchi (Università di Trento), Lomé after ‘the spirit of Lomé’: tracing the later evolution of a Convention that promised to revolutionize North–South relations 
Chiara Bonfiglioli (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Between Nairobi and Beijing: reconfigurations of Women's Internationalism at the end of the Cold War 
Francesco Magno (Università di Trento), Environmentalism and Global Visions in Eastern Europe: the Romanian Case

Discussant Angela Romano (Università di Bologna)

Day Two, 6 June
9.30am-12.30pm
Silvio Pons (Scuola Normale Superiore), Gorbachev’s New Thinking and the Transformation of Internationalism 
Bruno Settis (Università di Pavia), Clinton's early internationalist visions
Paolo Capuzzo (Università di Bologna), The Third Way as political culture
Sara Lorenzini (Università di Trento), Environmental Internationalism in Europe
Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Hong Kong Baptist University), Deng Xiaoping and China’s vision of the World Order in the late 20th century

12.30pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-5pm
Round Table
Legacies and decline of Internationalism 
Chair Sara Lorenzini (Università di Trento)
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (University of California, Berkeley)
Timothy Nunan (Regensburg University)
Kiran Patel (Ludwig Maximilian University - Munich)
Jessica Reinisch (University of London, Birkbeck)
Federico Romero (European University Institute)
 

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European Union – Next Generation EU, in the framework of PRIN 2022 Call, project “The Twilight of Internationalism” (2022M9HP3X) – CUP E53D230002600

Immagine: OKINAWA, JAPAN. G8 leaders before a morning meeting - CC Wikimedia Commons