UNIVERSITA� DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TRE

DIPARTIMENTO
DI ISTITUZIONI POLITICHE E SCIENZE SOCIALI


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Head of the Department: Professor Pietro Grilli di Cortona
Via Corrado Segre 2 - 00146 ROMA - Italy

The Dipartimento di Istituzioni Politiche e Scienze Sociali was founded on November 29, 1996,and achieved its full administrative and financial authonomy in June 1997, which makes it the "youngest" Department at the University of Roma Tre. The scientific project of the Department aims at promoting and coordinating a number of research initiatives on the political and social dimensions of contemporary Western societies. Its medium/long term objective is to become an "observatory" of the transformation of Italian, European and international societies and political bodies caused by the dual process of globalization and fragmentation, whose impact is one of the crucial challenges of our times. This approach has gradually brought the Department to concentrate on such topics as the process of European integration (with particular emphasis on the issue of European citizenship), the protection of human rights at a transnational level, the issues of international security and of the operations of peace support in the post-Cold war era, the reforms of the Italian administrative and political structure, equal opportunities, the making of political �lites and the transformation of politics in the age of the mass-media.

The Department's Teaching Staff is currently involved in a large number of individual and collective research projects: among the collective ones are the projects on "Issues of European Integration", which coordinates several research initiatives on such topics as European citizenship, the reform of the EU's budget, unemployment in Europe, environmental protection in a European framework, and the like. Individual research projects include the changes in the international system (US-Italian relations, colonial and post-colonial Africa, the Dayton Agreements), the transformation of the civil service, budget and debt analysis, political change in contemporary societies (utopianism, sects, the role of the �lites in a changing world).

The Department is currently running two Ph.D Programs on 1) Political theories and women's rights and 2) Theory and History of the formation of political �lites, and two post-graduate courses in 1) Peacekeeping and security studies and 2) European Citizenship.

 

 

Teaching Staff

Prof. Leopoldo Nuti

Dr. Marilena Gala

Scholars

Dr. Laura Fasanaro

Dr. Filippo Focardi

Ph.D. Candidates

Ph.D. Candidates

 

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