Political science and international relations

The course will have four main topics: 1) The process of formation of the Modern State (central instruments of government, local institutions, representantive bodies) in France, Spain, Great Britain and the crisis of the Holy Roman Empire. 2) The different paths to constitutionalism: the British evolution, the American federalism, the French revolutionary model, the Constitutions "octroyées". 3) The Italian constitutional monarchy: developments and limits of the process of parlliamentarization. 4) The institutional development of the fascist régime, and, with a comparative point of view, the collapse of the Third Republic in France.

No prerequisites

1) M.S. Corciulo, Percorsi di Storia istituzionale europea (secc. XIII-XIX), Roma, La Sapienza, 2008. 2) R. Martucci, Storia costituzionale italiana. Dallo Statuto albertino alla Repubblica, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (pagine: 18-246). 3) S. Guerrieri, "La dimensione costituzionale delle transizioni storiche: la Rivoluzione francese e la sua eredità tra Otto e Novecento", in “Rivista AIC. Associazione italiana dei costituzionalisti”, n. 3, pagine 117-125. https://www.rivistaaic.it/images/rivista/pdf/3_2022_08_Guerrieri.pdf 4) Un volume a scelta tra i seguenti: - S. Guerrieri, L'ora del Maresciallo. Vichy, 10 luglio 1940: il conferimento dei pieni poteri a Pétain, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005. - M.S. Corciulo, Una Rivoluzione per la Costituzione: agli albori del Risorgimento meridionale (1820-21), Roma, La Sapienza Editrice, 2017.

Attendance is optional

The assessment method will be a test that will take place in oral form, on the basis of about five questions. Students attending the course will have the possibility to do a facultative intermediate written test with open-ended questions. The oral test and the facultative intermediate written test are both aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by the student of the topics of the course and the ability to analyze them.

The course will be based on frontal lectures on the different topics of the programme. During these lessons, students will constantly be asked to express their points of view, so that their ability to exercise critical thinking will be increased. The attendance of the course is optional.