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Per chi intende svolgere solo l'esame orale:
- Jenny Teichman, The Philosophy of War and Peace, 2nd ed. (2018), Imprint Academic.
- Jack Donnelly & Daniel J. Edquist-Whelan, International Human Rights, 6th ed. (2020) or later editions, Routledge.
Per gli studenti che scelgono di frequentare le letture saranno distribuite in classe e/o rese disponibili su Moodle.
Per chi intende svolgere solo l'esame orale:
- Jenny Teichman, The Philosophy of War and Peace, 2nd ed. (2018), Imprint Academic.
- Jack Donnelly & Daniel J. Edquist-Whelan, International Human Rights, 6th ed. (2020) or later editions, Routledge.
Topic 1 – Introduction; State formation and war:
Kalyvas, S. N. (2019), “The Landscape of Political Violence”, in Chenoweth, E., English, R., Gofas, A. and Kalyvas, S. N. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Goemans, H. and Carter, D. (2025), “Re-Imagin(in)g Territorial Conflict”, Annual Review of Political Science 28: 133–149.
Tilly, C. (1985), “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime”, in Evans, P., Rueschemeyer, D. and Skocpol, T. (eds.), Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 169–191.
Topic 2 – Nationalism and war:
Cederman, L.-E., Galano Toro, P., Girardin, L. and Schvitz, G. (2023), “War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe”, International Organization 77(1): 324–362.
Cederman, L.-E., Girardin, L. and Müller-Crepon, C. (2023), “Nationalism and the Puzzle of Reversing State Size”, World Politics 75(4): 692–734.
Müller-Crepon, C., Schvitz, G. and Cederman, L.-E. (2024), “‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885–2020”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 69(2–3): 211–241.
Topic 3 – Causes of civil wars:
Cederman, L.-E. and Vogt, M. (2017), “Dynamics and Logics of Civil War”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(9): 1992–2016.
Cederman, L.-E., Gleditsch, K. S. and Buhaug, H. (2013), Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: chapter 3.
Costalli, S. and Ruggeri, A. (2015), “Indignation, Ideologies and Armed Mobilization”, International Security 40(2): 119–157.
Kalyvas, S. N. and Balcells, L. (2010), “International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict”, American Political Science Review 104: 415–429.
Topic 4 – Dynamics of violence:
Balcells, L. and Stanton, J. A. (2021), “Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide”, Annual Review of Political Science 24(1): 45–69.
Costalli, S., Moro, F. N. and Ruggeri, A. (2020), “The Logic of Vulnerability and Civilian Victimization: Shifting Front Lines in Italy (1943–1945)”, World Politics 72(4): 679–718.
Valentino, B. (2000), “Final Solutions: The Causes of Mass Killing and Genocide”, Security Studies 9(3): 1–59.
Lichtenheld, A. (2020), “Explaining Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars: A Cross-National Analysis”, International Organization 74(1): 253–294.
Nordås, R. and Cohen, D. K. (2021), “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence”, Annual Review of Political Science 24: 193–211.
Topic 5 – Consequences of war:
Costalli, S., Moretti, L. and Pischedda, C. (2017), “The Economic Costs of Civil War: Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence and the Effects of Ethnic Fractionalization”, Journal of Peace Research 54(1): 80–89.
Costalli, S. and Ruggeri, A. (2019), “The Long-Term Electoral Legacies of Civil War in Young Democracies: Italy, 1946–1968”, Comparative Political Studies 52(6): 927–961.
Charnysh, V. and Finkel, E. (2017), “The Death Camp Eldorado: Political and Economic Effects of Mass Violence”, American Political Science Review 111(4): 801–818.
Lupu, N. and Peisakhin, L. (2017), “The Legacy of Political Violence Across Generations”, American Journal of Political Science 61: 836–851.
Wayne, C. and Zhukov, Y. M. (2022), “Never Again: The Holocaust and Political Legacies of Genocide”, World Politics 74(3): 367–404.
Wayne, C., Damann, T. J. and Fachter, S. (2023), “The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel”, Comparative Political Studies 58(14): 3179–3214.
Topic 6 – Rebel governance:
Arjona, A. (2014), “Wartime Institutions: A Research Agenda”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 58(8): 1360–1389.
Mampilly, Z. (2015), “Performing the Nation-State: Rebel Governance and Symbolic Processes”, in Arjona, A., Kasfir, N. and Mampilly, Z. (eds.), Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 74–97.
Kalyvas, S. (2015), “Rebel Governance During the Greek Civil War, 1942–1949”, in Arjona, A., Kasfir, N. and Mampilly, Z. (eds.), Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 119–137.
Arjona, A. (2015), “Civilian Resistance to Rebel Governance”, in Arjona, A., Kasfir, N. and Mampilly, Z. (eds.), Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 180–202.
Reno, W. (2014), “Predatory Rebellions and Governance: The National Patriotic Front of Liberia, 1989–1992”, in Arjona, A., Kasfir, N. and Mampilly, Z. (eds.), Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 265–285.
Topic 7 – Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict resolution:
Walter, B. F., Howard, L. M. and Fortna, V. P. (2021), “The Extraordinary Relationship Between Peacekeeping and Peace”, British Journal of Political Science 51(4): 1705–1722.
Costalli, S. (2014), “Does Peacekeeping Work? A Disaggregated Analysis of Deployment and Violence Reduction in the Bosnian War”, British Journal of Political Science 44: 357–380.
Hultman, L., Kathman, J. and Shannon, M. (2014), “Beyond Keeping Peace: United Nations Effectiveness in the Midst of Fighting”, American Political Science Review 108(4): 737–753.
Bove, V., Di Salvatore, J. and Elia, L. (2022), “UN Peacekeeping and Households’ Well-Being in Civil Wars”, American Journal of Political Science 66(2): 402–417.
Blair, R. A., Di Salvatore, J. and Smidt, H. M. (2023), “UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries”, American Political Science Review 117(4): 1308–1326.
Hellmüller, S. and Salaymeh, B. (2025), “Transactional Peacemaking: Warmakers as Peacemakers in the Political Marketplace of Peace Processes”, Contemporary Security Policy 46(2): 312–342.
Wallensteen, P. and Svensson, I. (2014), “Talking Peace: International Mediation in Armed Conflicts”, Journal of Peace Research 51(2): 315–327.
Zartman, I. W. (2001), “The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments”, Ethnopolitics 1(1): 8–18.
Ruhe, C. (2021), “Impeding Fatal Violence Through Third-Party Diplomacy: The Effect of Mediation on Conflict Intensity”, Journal of Peace Research 58(4): 687–701.
Binningsbø, H. (2013), “Power Sharing, Peace and Democracy: Any Obvious Relationships?”, International Area Studies Review 16(1): 89–112.
Bormann, N.-C., Cederman, L.-E., Gates, S., Graham, B. A. T., Hug, S., Strøm, K. W. and Wucherpfennig, J. (2019), “Power Sharing: Institutions, Behavior, and Peace”, American Journal of Political Science 63(1): 84–100.
Graham, B. A. T., Miller, M. K. and Strøm, K. W. (2017), “Safeguarding Democracy: Powersharing and Democratic Survival”, American Political Science Review 111(4): 686–704.
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