24/05/2026
Nell'ambito del programma Visiting Professor/Scientist 2025, finanziato dalla LR 7/2007 della Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, il prof. Roberto Roccu, Reader in International Political Economy al King’s College London, terrà due seminari, aperti al pubblico, nel Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e sociali dell'Università di Cagliari, Sala Fondo Bibliotecario internazionale GramsciLab, via St Ignazio 84, Cagliari.
Mercoledì 27 maggio:
"Da Ghilarza ad Hormuz: metodologie gramsciane per lo studio dell'economia politica globale."
Giovedì 28 maggio:
"A Global Southern Question? Gramsci on Uneven Development and the Politics of Hegemony in the Arab World today"
Roberto Roccu is Reader in International Political Economy in the School of Politics & Economics at King’s College London. Located in critical political economy, his work focuses on the social and political reverberations of global economic transformations, with a regional focus on North Africa and the Middle East/Western Asia. Roberto is the author of The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution: Mubarak, Failed Hegemony and Economic Reforms (Palgrave, 2013) and Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries (with A. Hirst, D. Demerich, J. Hoover; Oxford University Press, 2023). His work has also appeared in major journals including Security Dialogue, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Relations, Globalizations, and more. Professor Roccu is currently associate editor at the peer-reviewed journal Global Political Economy, and chairs ‘Political Economy Beyond Boundaries’, one of the most successful standing sections of the European International Studies Association.
