CODE 109297 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI 11935 (LM-52 R) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SPS/02 LANGUAGE English TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: WAR, CONFLICTS AND PEACE OVERVIEW The course is aimed at analyzing the genesis, the advancement and the evolution of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought. It will especially focus on authors, analyses and theories that, in reason of their significances and legacies, have marked the most relevant steps of the path which, from the ancient centuries till today, have developed around the political problem of the construction of peace. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims at allowing students to know and to comprehend the evolutionary paths of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought, through the contextualization and the analysis of the most significant theories. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims to enable an understanding of the evolutionary paths of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought, in order to foster 1) the knowledge of the most significant analytical contributions 2) their contextualisation 3) their abstraction in function of the understanding of contemporary issues TEACHING METHODS The teaching involves 36 hours (equivalent to 6 CFUs). SYLLABUS/CONTENT Analysis of the ideas of peace and war in: 1) Classical antiquity 2) Late antiquity 3) Middle Ages 4) Modern Age 5) Contemporary Age RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Compulsory readings: C. Brown, T. Nardin and N.Rengger (eds.), International Relations in Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. - In detail: Cap. I, Cap. II, Cap. III, Cap. IV, Cap. V (pp. 243-256 and texts by Niccolò Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Alexander Hamilton, Edmund Burke), Cap. VI (pp. 311-324 and texts by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes), Cap. VII (pp. 379-394 and texts by Immanuel Kant), Cap. VIII (pp. 457-469 and texts by Giuseppe Mazzini), Cap. IX (pp. 519-531 and texts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) At students' choice (one book for those who attend the course, two for those who do not): - Aeschylus, The Persians. - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. - Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. - Aristophanes, Lysistrata. - Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae. - Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia. - Desiderius Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapters XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII. - Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace. - John Mainard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Peace. - Niccolò Machiavelli, Art of War. - Angelo Roncalli, Pacem in terris. - Sophocles, Antigone. - Henry D. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience. - Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, book V. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD ANDREA CATANZARO Ricevimento: On appointment, generally on Thursday morning (9-11 am) at Albergo Dei Poveri (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche - Piazzale E. Brignole 3 a, Torre centrale - 4th floor). Otherwise on Teams (channel code: tz7ou3u) To arrange an appointment, please write to this email address: andrea.catanzaro@unige.it. LESSONS LESSONS START Second semester Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam is oral and aims to assess the skills acquired in analysing political ideas and theories dealing with peace and war from a critical perspective and in using them to understand contemporary politics. ASSESSMENT METHODS In particular, the following will be assessed: 1) the critical analysis of political theories 2) the ability to relate them to contemporary issues FURTHER INFORMATION Students with certification of DSA (Special educational needs), disability or other special educational needs are advised to contact both the contact person Prof. Aristide Canepa (aristide.canepa@unige.it) and the lecturer at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination modalities that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning patterns and provide suitable compensatory tools. Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals Peace, justice and strong institutions