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История с 1945
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Направление:
41.03.05. Международные отношения
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course covers the modern period of global history, focusing on the rise of decline of the post-WWI international order in different aspect: economic, social, political and geostrategic ones. There are no prerequisites for this course. However, a rigorous work during the course is required. Students who attend all classes, participate in discussions, solve home assignments, and complete the course projects would very likely pass the course with a good grade.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the economic and social development European states in the interwar period (1920-1930);
- Analyze the reasons and consequences of the Great Depression;
- Have a deep and comprehensive outlook of the ideological context of the social and political development of European and non-European societies (rise of Fascism and Militarism, spread of Communist ideas);
- To examine the preconditions and reasons of the WWII and policies of the Great Powers, which led to destruction of the post-WWI international order.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Be able to determine the role of Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan in undermining collective security;
- Be able to determine characteristic features of dictatorial regimes of Italy, Germany, and Spain;
- Be able to determine the role of Versailles System in stimulating the rise of fascism in Europe;
- Know strategic and military preconditions of WWII;
- Know the impact of the Great Depression upon the progress that had been made in terms of international collaboration through the League;
- Know the implications of the Treaty of Versailles for the Weimar Republic;
- Know the reasons for the appearance of fascism in Europe;
- Know the role of Germany and Italy in the Spanish Civil War;
- Know the US role in international relations during the interwar period.
- Understand the theory and logic of detente
- know and understand the key treaties and events of the Detente policy
- understant the context and nature of the Korean War
- understand influence of the Korean war on the Cold War
- learn the nature and context of the Vietnam war
- learn the political and strategic developements in Eastern Europe in the first half of the Cold War
Course Contents
- Post-war planning and the breakdown of the Grand Alliance, 1943–1944
- The German question and the Marshall Plan: preventing the spread of Communism, 1946–1948
- The onset of the Cold War: from containment to rollback, 1948–1953
- Intelligence, propaganda and covert operations. Nuclear weapons and Cold War
- The Sino-Soviet split
- Détente, 1969–1979
- The Cold War in Asia – Korea
- The Cold War in Asia – Vietnam
- The Soviet Union and the Cold War in eastern Europe, 1947–1962
- The Cold War in Latin America – Guatemala and the Cuban Revolution, 1950–1963
- The Cold War in the Middle East – the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1950–2000
- The Cold War in Africa – Congo, the UN and Angola, 1959–1976
- The end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism
- The rise of China
- The USA and the War on Terror. The USA and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Assessment Elements
- Final ExamAn oral exam to check student's knowlledge of the course
- Seminar ActivityEvaluation of seminar activity includes participation at the discussions and fulfillment of other tasks related to student's work at the seminars
- Mock Exam II
- Mock Exam IThe exam includes writing of 3 essays chsen from a number of proposed topics
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.4 * Final Exam + 0.1 * Mock Exam I + 0.1 * Mock Exam II + 0.2 * Seminar Activity + 0.2 * Seminar Activity
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 1989: democratic revolutions at the Cold War's end : a brief history with documents, Kenney, P., 2010
- A century of revolution : insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long cold war, , 2010
- After leaning to one side : China and its allies in the Cold War, Shen, Z., 2011
- After the cold war : essays on the emerging world order, , 1997
- Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War, Harmer, T., 2011
- America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1980, LaFeber, W., 1980
- American foreign policy since World War II, Hook, S. W., 2013
- APEC and the rise of China, , 2011
- Asselin, P. (2013). Hanoi’s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=607163
- Awakening giants, feet of clay : assessing the economic rise of China and India, Bardhan, P., 2010
- Black market, Cold War : everyday life in Berlin, 1946-1949, Steege, P., 2007
- British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War 1944-49, Kent, J., 1993
- British policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War, Barker, E., 1976
- Cha, V. D. . V. (DE-588)138504644, (DE-627)603780091, (DE-576)181206668, aut. (2020). Allied decoupling in an era of US-China strategic competition Victor D. Cha.
- Challenges to International Relations in Post-Cold War Europe, , 2002
- Chinese foreign relations : power and policy since the Cold War, Sutter, R. G., 2012
- Churchill's Cold War : the politics of personal diplomacy, Larres, K., 2002
- Cold War exiles and the CIA : plotting to free Russia, Tromly, B., 2019
- Detente after Brezhnev : the domestic roots of Soviet foreign policy, Yanov, A., 1977
- Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations From Nixon to Reagan, Garthoff, R., 1985
- Fink, C. (2017). Cold War : An International History. Boulder, CO: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1451271
- Foreign intervention in Africa : from the Cold War to the war on terror, Schmidt, E., 2013
- Gheciu, A. (2008). Securing Civilization? : The EU, NATO and the OSCE in the Post-9/11 World. OUP Oxford.
- Halliday, F. (2004). 9/11 and Middle Eastern Studies past and future: revisitingIvory towers on sand. International Affairs, 80(5), 953–962. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00427.x
- Hoffman, B. (2002). Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 25(5), 303–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/105761002901223
- Ikenberry, G. J. (2008). The Rise of China and the Future of the West. (cover story). Foreign Affairs, 87(1), 23. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=28018827
- In the shadow of the greatest generation : the Americans who fought the Korean War, Pash, M. L., 2012
- Levitsky, S., & Way, L. (2010). Competitive Authoritarianism : Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press.
- Luttwak, E. (DE-588)120827115, (DE-576)162062117. (2012). The rise of China vs. the logic of strategy / Edward N. Luttwak. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Belknap. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.382479831
- Nixon, Kissinger, and the shah : the United State and Iran in the Cold War, Alvandi, R., 2014
- Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign policy making : the machinery of crisis, Siniver, A., 2008
- Palmadessa, A. L. (2019). Cold War: Global Impact and Lessons Learned. New York: Nova. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2156015
- Parta, R. Eugene. Empirical Assessment of Radio Liberty and Western Broadcasting to the USSR During the Cold War, Hoover Institution Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3301867.
- Robert Jervis. (1980). The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (4), 563. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.sae.jocore.v24y1980i4p563.592
- Robert S. Ross, & Øystein Tunsjø. (2017). Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China : Power and Politics in East Asia. Cornell University Press.
- Sheila Fitzpatrick. (2014). A Spy in the Archives : A Memoir of Cold War Russia. I.B. Tauris.
- Smetana, V., & Kramer, M. (2014). Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain : The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=670088
- Soviet - american relations : the detente years, 1969 - 1972, , 2007
- Stueck, W. W. (1995). The Korean War : An International History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=75031
- The 1967 Arab-Israeli war : origins and consequences, , 2012
- The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Vol.2: Crises and detente, , 2010
- The First Vietnam War : colonial conflict and Cold War crisis, , 2007
- The Iraq War : European perspectives on politics strategy and operations, , 2006
- The Iraq wars and America's military revolution, Shimko, K. L., 2010
- The limits of detente : the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973, Daigle, C., 2012
- The United States in the Vietnam war, 1954-1975 : a selected annotated bibliography of English-language sources, Peake, L. A., 2008
- The Vietnam war, Anderson, D. L., 2005
- Weathersby, K., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars., & Cold War International History Project. (1993). Soviet aims in Korea and the origins of the Korean War, 1945-1950 : new evidence from Russian archives /.
- Why intelligence fails : lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War, Jervis, R., 2010
- Yoshimi, S. (2003). “America” as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 4(3), 433–450. https://doi.org/10.1080/1464937032000143797
- Zhao, J. (2013). Theory of China Model and the Rise of China. [Place of publication not identified]: Paths International Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1285796
- Zubok, V. M. (2002). Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: Perspectives on History and Personality. Cold War History, 2(2), 61. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999954
- Zubok, V. M. (2007). A Failed Empire : The Soviet Union in the Cold War From Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=301081