Course aims:

Knowing and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to International Relations during 19th and 20th centuries
Understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to International Relations during 19th and 20th centuries
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in International Relations as well as in connected domains.

Course Entry Requirements:

World History of the Twentieth Century

Course contents:

1. International relations between Great Powers before World War I. 2. Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920). 3. The first decade of the inter-war period. 4. League of Nations. 5. The second decade of the inter-war period. 6. Anglo-American Relations during World War II. 7. United Nations. 8. Germany after 1945. 9. The Korean War (1950-1953). 10. NATO versus Treaty of Warsaw. 11. Vietnamese War. 12. Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War. 13. USA foreign policy promoted by presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush. 14. International relations at the end of the 20th century.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

Retrieval of written sources on the historical past; Establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; The concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

Calvocoressi, Peter, World Politics since 1945, Routledge, London, 2009, 620.
Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994, 912.
Feltham, R. G., Diplomatic Handbook, Longman Publishing Group, London, 1982, 164.