Scuola Universitaria Interdipartimentale in Scienze Strategiche (SUISS)

STRATEGIC STUDIES

Strategic Studies

Anno accademico 2022/2023

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Programma
• Note
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

The course is designed to provide analytical and critical tools addressed to understand, interpret and evaluate interrelations among strategic thinking, and its historical evolution, and modern battlefield in the MENA, Middle East and North Africa, region.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

At the end of the course, students are expected to be confident with the following core concepts:

1) the concept of strategy and the main ideas related to Strategic Studies;

2) the strategic ideas of the most important thinkers, mainly Carl von Clausewitz;

3) the study of current conflitcs and their impact on the contemporary international system;

4) the notion of irregualr warfare, its evolution, its impact on international system and its links to the concept of terrorism.

Modalità di insegnamento

In-class activities are varied and make use of a mix of frontal lectures and seminars.                                    

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Oral exam

Programma

- Notes taken during the lessons;

- Lecture notes by the Professor;

- A. Beccaro, Modern Irregular Warfare: The ISIS Case Study, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 29:2, 2018, 207-228.

- Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World, Vintage Books, New York any edition.

Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher in due advance so as to define a specific programme.

Orario lezioni

Note

Students, who have already taken the course "Pensiero strategico, dottrine operative e aree di crisi", have to contact the professor to discuss a different program for the final exam.

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Vai a Moodle
• Visita i forum