HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

The course will treat the following topics:
1) cooperation and security in 19th century Europe: the Age of Congresses and the “concert of Europe”;
2) the “first globalisation” and its consequences: transnational political movements, public international unions, juridical cooperation, the "Hague system";
3) Paris peace conference and the League of Nations system;
4) the rise and fall of “collective security”: the political action of the League in the inter-war years;
5) successes and limits of international socio-economic cooperation during the 1920s and 1930s: the ILO, the economic commissions of the League of Nations, other experiences of economic cooperation;
6) "internationalist" perspectives during WWII and the creation of the United Nations;
7) the UN system, specialised agencies and Bretton Woods organisations;
8) the UN and security issues in the cold war years;
9) the impact of decolonisation and the new focus on development issues;
10) the international economic organisation from the “golden age” to the “second globalisation”;
11) hints on the evolution and problems of the UN system after the cold war.