Syllabus: First week: definition of the course and of Social democracy as an international actor Second week further definition of social democratic social and political model Texts for the first two weeks Several PP slides and some text among which “Democratic socialism means solidarity” by Swedish Sap (1972); “World peace, super powers and national independence” by O. Palme (1978); Third week: Introduction to Moyn, Not enough. Further discussions and texts concerning Social democracy socio-political models and social democracy as an international actor. Presentations of students’ assignments in class possible from now on Texts: Reading of the last chapter/conclusions in Moyn; several papers and documents such as “The new programme of the Spö”, Austrian social democracy (1978); Olof Palme lecture at Harvard University on Full Emoloyment (1984) Fourth to fifth week: analysis and reading of “The social construction of Swedish neutrality” Texts: Agius, The social construction of Swedish neutrality April: Every week will be devoted to further reading/discussions of Moyn (one day) and Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the USA and Latin America, 1974-1992 (second day) Besides: presentations and discussions in class. Additional lessons by Dr. P. Marinucci (the political philosophy of Human rights in Moyn’s text); Dr. D. Romano, Willy Brandt and the North-Sputh commission. Texts: B. Rother, K. Larres, Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the USA and Latin America, 1974-1992; S. Moyn, Not enough; D. Thorsdeniya, Swedish development aid in post 1977 Sri Lanka; C. Marklund, Double loyalties?, Small-state solidarity in the Debates on New Internationl Economic Order in Sweden during the long 1970ies. In the course of the month and until the end of the course special lectures will also be provided during the lessons and/or debates among experts will be provide. Confirmed so far: Friedrich Ebert foundation on German social democratic cooperation; Further proposals concerning the course can be discussed and considered. Final test: a written (strongly recommended but non-mandatory) text in class, last day (choice of three questions out of five provided, resulting in 3 medium texts (about 400 words each) to be written in 2 hours time) First result communicated to the students: good, fair, to be improved Oral exam: discussion of the written test to begin with the first available slot in Infostud system. Final grade: combination of the result from the written test (weighed 50%) and the oral exam (weighed 40%). Activity and presentation in class also included in the final grade (weighed 10%) Oral exam for students not taking the written exam: all the mandatory texts Oral exam for students not attending class courses: one compulsory extra text to be agreed (see for example below) Mandatory texts for the exams: Relevant and profitable use of interconnections and quotes from other texts used during the course will be positively valued. The same goes for other texts the students may find useful. Allegati:

S. Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World C. Agius, The social construction of Swedish neutrality B. Rother, K. Larres, Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the USA and Latin America, 1974-1992 D. Thorsdeniya, Swedish development aid in post 1977 Sri Lanka; C. Marklund, Double loyalties?, Small-state solidarity in the Debates on New Internationl Economic Order in Sweden during the long 1970ies Further bibliography and possible alternative texts The texts used for the course will be selected out of the following papers or books. The following texts may though be changed with newer and more updated versions Hans Mouritzen, The Nordic Model as a Foreign Policy Instrument: Its Rise and Fall, "Journal of Peace Research" Vol. 32, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 9-21 E. Hobsbawn, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Michael Joseph (UK)/Vintage Books (U.S.), 1994 Talcot Imlay, The practice of socialist internationalism, Oxford UP S. Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2018 Törnquist, O. and Harriss J. with Chandhoke, and N, Engelstad, F, (eds.) (2016) Reinventing Social Democratic Development – Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons Copenhagen: NIAS books; New Delhi: Manohar. Stokke, K. and Törnquist, O. (eds.) (2013). Democratisation in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave.