Transnational Governance

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Academic year 2019/2020
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
EQF level: 8
35° cicle
Field of study: politics, social sciences and communications
Place of teaching
firenze (FI), italy
Languages in which the course is held
English
Cost
Free course
Duration of the course
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023
Scholarships
4 
Deadline (Expired)
29 August 2019

Course contents

The PhD course in Transnational Governance is organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore in collaboration with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. The course, which ends with a joint Ph.D. degree certificate provided by the two Schools, combines structured teaching with close supervision activities by a dedicated faculty. The duration of the programme and its grants (4 grants for the academic year 2018-19) is four years.

The course provides tools to understand conflict and transformation of the relationship between societies and institutions with a theoretical and analytical focus on the role of governance in addressing complex phenomena (including problems linked to globalization and Europeanisation). Contemporary politics is increasingly characterized by processes that go beyond the traditional distinction between national and international spheres. National and supranational actors and institutions interact through trans-national dynamics and forms of governance. These phenomena lead to key methodological, analytical and theoretical challenges to the more traditional approaches to political and social studies. The Ph.D. programme deals with such challenges in a transnational perspective.

Through the lenses of political and social sciences and a multi-disciplinary approach open to the contributions of law and economic studies, the course focuses on institutions, actors and their dynamic interaction at European and global level with a specific attention to the supra-, trans-, and (sub-)national level of governance. The teaching programme is based on two levels. The first level provides a common theoretical and methodological background inspired by political and social sciences (in particular, political science, international relations, EU studies and political philosophy). The second level provides a more specialized training for the analysis of transnational governance, with three specific thematic areas open to cross-fertilisation: International relations, global economy and security; European and comparative politics and governance; Political movements and Trans-national civil society.

The three thematic areas will be addressed through the lenses of political science, sociology, political philosophy, law, and economics.

The Ph.D. programme aims at training scholars and highly-skilled experts who can work in academic institutions, think tanks and research centers, as well as in policy consultancy for international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Page of the course on the University's website

Teaching

Place of teaching
firenze (FI), italy
Duration of the course
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023
Number of hours
150 ( 150 hours of learning activities)
Attendance methods
Compulsory attendance
Full Time
Languages in which the course is held
English

Admission requirements

Type of degree required
2nd Level Degree
Foreign language skills
English
Other educational requirements
a) were born after 31 October 1989;
b) have no past criminal charges against them resulting in a prison term of more than three years;
c) have not been subject to the disciplinary measure of “expulsion” as specified in the didactic regulations of the SNS;
d) are not in possession of a research doctorate issued by an Italian university, and in any case have never benefitted from a scholarship to attend a research doctorate course in Italy.

Admission

Deadline
29 August 2019
Available places
4
Admission
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Cost
Free course
Scholarships
4

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Sede del corso: FIRENZE
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