WAR AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF DEFENSE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
WAR AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF DEFENSE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Paolo Ciocca, Marcello Cannizzaro
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims to offer an introduction to the study of war as a recurrent phenomenon of international politics, with a focus on recent crisis and their impact on the evolution of Defence systems and the posture of International Organizations. The students will be given the tools to critically analyze the current evolution of the defense industry and the new dynamics that this entails.
Risultati di apprendimento attesi
The students will approach the study of war, conflict and the relationship between technological innovation and the defense industry from a variety of different disciplines including history, politics, international relations, diplomacy, economy and strategic studies. They will become familiar with the interconnections between Defense, Armed Forces, Diplomacy, and Politics, acquiring analytical skills that will allow them to understand and critically discuss contemporary geopolitical phenomena
Contenuti Del Corso
The course will outline the main conceptual and theoretical tools of Defence in its international dimension, introducing the students to the evolution of Western strategic thought, with a focus on the main domains of warfare and presenting the major current strategic debates and their implications for military doctrines and international politics, in Western Countries and beyond. Moreover, the course will analyze the evolution of the defense industry in light of the ongoing technological innovation trends
Testi Di Riferimento
B. R. Posen (2003) - Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony.
B. R. Posen (2014) - Why American Restraint Makes Sense in a World Going to Hell.
C. Krauthammer (2002-2003) - The Unipolar Moment Revisited
L. Retter et al. (2021) - European Strategic Autonomy in Defence: Transatlantic Visions and Implications for NATO, US and EU Relations. Santa Monica, Calif: RAND Corporation. Web.
M. E. Kosal (2020) - Disruptive and Game Changing Technologies in Modern Warfare Development, Use, and Proliferation. Ed. Margaret E. Kosal. 1st ed. 2020. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. Web.
NATO’s “Strategic Concept for the Defence and Security of The Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization”
Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchoff (2024) - Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Scribner.
S. P. Huntington (1993) - The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
W. C. Wohlforth (1999) - The Stability of a Unipolar World
Metodologie Didattiche
Traditional lectures, lectures by external experts and case studies
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Attending students: team work (80% of the overall final grade) - paper on a topic agreed with the lecturer (20% of the final grade).
Criteri per l’assegnazione dell’elaborato finale
The criteria are the following: final vote of minimum 29/30 and active participation in class.
Settimana 1
Date: 9/09
Ciocca/Cannizzaro:
Presentation of the course.
Launch of the teamwork and the grading scheme
- Ciocca’s Theme: The defense industry in the new tech era: innovation, challenges and opportunities in a Great Power competition.
- Cannizzaro’s Theme: 'Solarium-Mosaic' Project. Workshop dealing with the following topic: the end of the US hegemony and the end of the unipolar world. Students will think about the consequences of the end of “unipolar moment” and the subsequent opportunities-threats that this poses for Italy and the EU.
Organization of the teamwork, steps, output expected; students will have to divide themselves into teams of max 9 students. Each student to choose a subtopic for the personal paper.
[For Prof. Ciocca’s TW, each team will have to choose an industry/sector/topic, either among those proposed by the lecturer or identified by the team itself (and agreed with the lecturer).
Reference texts:
1. Paper: P. Ciocca, Terms of reference of the exercise (methodological paper #1). (link will follow)
2. Raj M. Shah – Christopher Kirchoff, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Scribner 2024.
3. The US Needs a New Solarium for a New Grand Strategy – The Diplomat (https://thediplomat.com)
4. Intelligence and National Security Strategy: Reexamining Project Solarium (link will follow)
5. Historical Documents - Office of the Historian (http://state.gov)
Date: 10/09
Cannizzaro:
National Defense – how it works
Settimana 2
Date: 16/09
Ciocca:
Trouble-shooting session where students doubts are addressed.
Check of the teams’ organization and topics selected. Common discussion. Students will finalize the composition of their groups and the choice of their case studies. Check of the students’ personal paper choice. Doubts are addressed.
Date: 17/09
Cannizzaro:
Trouble-shooting session where students doubts are addressed.
Check of the teams’ organization and topics selected. Common discussion. Students will finalize the composition of their groups and the choice of their case studies. Check of the students’ personal paper choice. Doubts are addressed.
Settimana 3
Date: 23/09
Cannizzaro: The basis - Air, Land and Naval
Date: 24/09
Cannizzaro: The new dimensions - Cyber, Space and Underwater
Settimana 4
Date: 30/09
Ciocca: Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition: general.
Teamwork exercise: Horizontal Issues.
Reference texts:
1. Raj M. Shah – Christopher Kirchoff, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Scribner 2024.
2. Paper: P. Ciocca, Topic for the Assessment: brief remarks on issues at stake (1/2) (methodological paper #2). (link will follow)
3. Paper: P. Ciocca, Topic for the Assessment: brief remarks on issues at stake (2/2) (methodological paper #3). (link will follow)
Date: 1/10
Cannizzaro: Terrorism and Hybrid threats: The Global Security Risk of Non-State Actors
Settimana 5
Date: 7/10
Ciocca: midcourse collective check on the teamwork advancement.
Date: 8/10
Cannizzaro: midcourse collective check on the teamwork advancement.
Settimana 6
Date: 14/10
Ciocca: Host TBD. Case study: Cyber – Hybrid Threats
Date: 15/10
Cannizzaro: Transnational Governance of Defence: UN, NATO and Coalitions of willing
Settimana 7
Date: 21/10
Ciocca: Case study: Space economy
Reference list:
1. A. Terzi, F. Nicoli - Space possibilities for our grandchildren: current and future economic uses of space, 2024.
2. J. Bartosiak and E. Dolman: space strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iNd9FDj-DM.
Date: 22/10
Cannizzaro: case Studies (Lebanon, Kosovo)
Settimana 8
Date: 28/10
Ciocca: Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition: how to finance capacity acquisition - the role of the private sector.
Reference text:
1. Raj M. Shah – Christopher Kirchoff, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Scribner 2024.
Date: 29/10
Cannizzaro: case studies (Afghanistan, Yemen)
Settimana 9
Date: 4/11
Ciocca and Pertosa: US Grand strategy.
Reference text:
1. B. R. Posen - Why American Restraint Makes Sense in a World Going to Hell.
2. B. R. Posen - Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony.
3. C. Krauthammer - The Unipolar Moment Revisited
4. W. C. Wohlforth - The Stability of a Unipolar World
Date: 5/11
Cannizzaro: EU missions & operations
Insight:
1. H. Meijer and M. Wyss. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. Web
2. Council of the European Union, A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence, 21 March 2022
Settimana 10
Date: 11/11
Ciocca: Collective presentation (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session).
Date: 12/11
Cannizzaro: Collective presentation (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session).
Settimana 11
Date: 18/11
Ciocca: Collective presentation (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session).
Date: 19/11
Cannizzaro: Collective presentation (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session).
Settimana 12
Date: 25/11
Ciocca: Collective presentations (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session) and grading of team work and personal outputs.
Date: 26/11
Cannizzaro: Collective presentation (around 20 minutes for both presentation and Q & A session) and grading of team work and personal outputs.