Магистратура
2025/2026
Истории секретности между дипломатией и шпионажем: наблюдение, конспирация и информация
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Статус:
Курс по выбору (Глобальная и региональная история / Global and Regional History)
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Егоров Евгений Витальевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This MA course delves into the intricate intersection of diplomacy and espionage, exploring the nuanced histories of secrecy. Focused on diverse forms of surveillance, the curriculum navigates the blurred boundaries between diplomatic practices and covert intelligence operations. Investigating themes of conspiracy and information manipulation, the course offers a comprehensive understanding of how secrecy has shaped historical narratives and continues to influence contemporary global dynamics.
Learning Objectives
- Being capable of navigating the historiography on surveillance and espionage
- Able to articulate analytical perspectives on the interactions between diplomacy, knowledge production, and information gathering
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Student articulates the relations between diplomacy and intelligence
- Student traces the origins of diplomatic communications, intelligence gathering and surveillance institutions
- Student recognizes the relations between literature, conspiracy, and secrecy
- Student articulates the connection between imperial rule and information-gathering
- Student explains the history of particular imagination surrounding secrecy and diplomacy
- Student navigates diplomatic forms of knowledge as well as intricacies of information-production
- Student articulates modern debates about the future of IR and diplomacy
Course Contents
- The delicate relations between diplomacy and intelligence
- Conspiracies, secrecies, and their origins
- Decoding a conspiracy: investigation and surveillance
- Empire and surveillance
- Aesthetics and images of diplomacy and espionage
- Forms of knowledge in diplomacy and espionage
- Radical thoughts for brighter future: peace, state and promises of diplomacy
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A Question of Diplomacy - Conan Doyle A. - Издательство "Лань" (мировое наследие) - 978-5-507-32858-1 - 2013 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/39938 - ЛАНЬ - 39938
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- American diplomacy in the twentieth century, Schulzinger, R. D., 1994