SOCIETY, POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS

Political Order & Violence - UNIMI

This unit of the course introduces the students to core concepts such as politics, conflict, and institutions. Moreover, it discusses the different trajectories of state making and state rupture, among these ruptures: external occupations, civil wars, and revolutions. The course analytically explores transnational governance and global political order.

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Topic Required Readings Slides

What is politics? Sartori 1972 W1M1

What is conflict? North et al 2009 W1M2

What is political violence ? Kalyvas 2019 W2M3

What is political order? Bates 2008 W3M4

Governments and Governance Fukuyama 2016

Institutions and conflict Olson 1993

State as institution Poggi 1990

State development Tilly 1985

State capacity Mann 1984

Nation making Linz 1993

State rupture I: occupations Edelstein 2004.

Case studies 1 Lake 2016

State rupture 2 : civil war Bates 2008

Case studies 2 Cederman & Vogt 2017

State rupture 3: Revolutions Goldstone et al 2022

Case studies 3 Beissinger 2022

Transnational Governance Abbott & Snidal 2010.

EU and other experiments Pollack 2005.

Global Political Order? March & Olsen 1998

Failure of Global Governance? Ikenberry 2018