HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in PUBLIC POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE

Disciplinary Sector:

History of International Relations

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

RAGIONIERI Rodolfo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Modern and contemporary history

AF code:

10P10210

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

The exam can be given as a student attending the course or as a student not attending the course.

Attending students
Writing a paper, whose content has to be decided together with the professor in seminar held in the framework of the lectures.

Not attending students
One oral proof on the content of the two books (see below).

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course deals with international history during the Cold War and the following decade (1944-1999). The aim of the course is giving a critical framework of Cold War history, of its conclusion and of the decade 1989-1999. This framework is intended as a contribution to the understanding of this events, their connection, the complexity of different interpretations and th development of a globalized world.

Contents

The end of World War II and the origins of the Cold War. The Korea war and harshest phase of the Cold War. Khrusciov, the crisis of 1956, peaceful coexistence, the Berlin wall and the Cuba crisis. The Vietnam war and the first years of detente. Detente's heydays and its decline. The second cold war. Reagan, Gorbaciov and the end of the Cold War. The Gulf war. The war in the Balkans. NATO's and EU enlargement.

Recommended Bibliography

Two text, each in one of two groups:

First group:
- Federico Romero, Storia internazionale dell'età contemporanea, Carocci, Roma 2012
- Wilfried Loth. Le trasformazioni degli stati e dei rapporti di forza, in in Storia del mondo. Vol. 6. Il mondo globalizzato. Dal 1945 a oggi (a cura di Akira Iriye), Einaudi, Torino 2014 (capitolo 1)

Second Group:
- Federico Romero, Storia della guerra fredda, Einaudi, Torino 2009
- John R. McNeill e Peter Engelke. L'Antropocene: i popoli e il loro pianeta, in Storia del mondo. Vol. 6. Il mondo globalizzato. Dal 1945 a oggi (a cura di Akira Iriye), Einaudi, Torino 2014 (capitolo 3)

Remark: the original edition of Iriyes' book is available in English:
Akira Iriye (editor), A history of the World. Vol. 6. Global Interdependence. The World after 1945, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2014.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Mixed: lectures and seminaries.

Contacts/More Information

Office hours:

Teaching weeks,
First semester: Tue-Fri, 11-13
Second Semester: Mo-Fri 5-7 pm

or by appointment (email:r.ragionieri@uniss.it)

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Course year: 2

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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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6 credits - Caratterizzante
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6 credits - Caratterizzante
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6 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
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9 credits - Caratterizzante
TO THE EU ORIGIN
9 credits - Caratterizzante
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