Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(120512 ) -  Professor Kostas A. Lavdas

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Crisis and Change in Southern Europe:

Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal

This course explores the interaction of crisis and political change in Southern Europe. As the political scene and geopolitical realities of Europe change rapidly, the course will provide the background necessary to assess current challenges and developments and understand stability, instability, crisis and change. Focusing on Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal in comparative perspective, the course examines the formation and subsequent development of four South European political systems in which the political element has played especially crucial roles in social, cultural and economic life. Topics covered include the historical formation of political systems, the role of ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, and liberalism in Southern Europe, and the peculiarities of state building in the region. The course aims to (a) help acquire a working knowledge of the political systems of the four states while comparing them with others in the South of Europe and the Southeast region; (b) place the South European cases in the wider context of contemporary debates in political analysis, state theory and comparative political economy; and (c) examine stateness and democracy in Southern Europe in the context of membership and (in historical terms) prospective membership in the EC/EU and participation in the continuing but contested process of European integration.

For more info, please see the Syllabus for the course (in "Documents").

 

 

 

 

 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Παρασκευή 6 Μαρτίου 2020