The course deals with the history of international relations during the XX century and in the new millenium, paying particular attention to the origins, the development and the end of the Cold War, as well as to the evolution of the post-Cold War international system.
Provide the students the knowledge of the relationship between peoples and States, in the broader context of globalization.
Provide the students:
1) the ability to understand the dynamics that have characterized the international system in the XX century.
2) the ability to evaluate and interpret the debate on international issues using the knowledge of the historical past as a reading key.
3) the ability to develop a critical evaluation of the international dynamics of the XX century .
4) the development of communication skills, both in written (written test for attending students) and in oral form (through seminars, paper presentations and class discussions).
5) Learning skills, developed through frontal lessons, classroom discussions and the study of reference books.
Modern History and Contemporary History
Face to face lectures, seminars, Conferences, videos, power point presentations.
The course deals with the history of the international system from 1900 till the US presidential elections of 2008. The introductory part, devoted to the analysis of continuities and discontinuities from the XIX to the XX century, will be followed by the analysis of the main turning points of the so-called "short Twentieth Century": the end of World War I, the setting up of the Versailles system, the interwars period, the outbreak of World War II, the various phases of the Cold War, the decolonization process, the Middle East crisis, the end of the Cold War and the search for a new international order.
A choice between: A. Varsori, Storia internazionale dal 1919 a oggi, Bologna il Mulino, 2015 or J. B. Duroselle, Storia diplomatica dal 1919 ai giorni nostri, Milano, LED, 1998.
Non-attending students will also study one of the following volumes: M. Del Pero, Era Obama. Dalla speranza del cambiamento all'elezione di Trump, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017; M. Campanini, Storia del Medio oriente contemporaneo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014, T.G. Fraser, Il conflitto arabo-israeliano, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004; M.K. Hall, La guerra del Vietnam, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007; A. Varsori, Le relazioni internazionali dopo la fine della guerra fredda, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018.
Ricevimento: Every Tuesday from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and by appointment writing an email to this address: eleonora.guasconi@unige.it
MARIA ELEONORA GUASCONI (President)
GIORGIO GRIMALDI
GUIDO LEVI
LARA PICCARDO
DANIELA PREDA
MARIA ELISABETTA TONIZZI
Approx February 18, 2019
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Oral
Attending students will have a written test on the first part of the program: from the Paris Conference to the Potsdam Conference of 1945.
The students can present a 5- pages paper on a case study agreed with the teacher.
The final exam will be oral and will include questions about the course program and, for non-attending students, the chosen text.
Foreign students can apply to take it in English.
The Commission is appointed by the Department and chaired by the Professor of the course.
https://unige.it/off.f/2015/cds/10177.html
