История с 1945

Бакалавриат 2026/2027

Статус: Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)

Кто читает: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Где читается: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 56

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Abstract

The course deals with the history of international relations broadly defined from 1945 to present. It includes such themes as the global Cold War, the post-Cold War restructuring of international relations, and the recent developments such as the rise of world terrorism and the rise of East Asia, primarily China.

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

demonstrate that they have thoroughly understood the core literature on the history of international relations after the Second World War;
describe how Cold War international crises were perceived and responded to, particularly by the USA, in various parts of the world;
explain how the Cold War originated and how and why it ended;
relate local and regional aspects of particular conflicts to the broader international aspects of the Cold War which influenced them;
To understand the theory and logic of detente
to know and understand the key treaties and events of the Detente policy
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
understand the nature and context of the Vietnam 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

Introduction to the study of history of international relations after 1945. Main definitions.
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

In-class written essay I
includes writing of 3 essays chosen from a number of proposed topics
In-class written essay II
Final Exam
Seminar Activity

Interim Assessment

2026/2027 2nd module
0.2 * In-class written essay II + 0.4 * Final Exam + 0.2 * In-class written essay I + 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
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
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
Dunbabin, J. P. . (2014). The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World : International Relations Since 1945: a History in Two Volumes. Hoboken: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=813139
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
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.
Robbins, K. (1998). The World Since 1945 : A Concise History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=150025
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
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
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 /.
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

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Gaddis, J. L. (DE-588)11168529X, (DE-576)161044484. (2006). The Cold War / John Lewis Gaddis. London: Allen Lane. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.250201704
Leffler, M. P. (2006). Remembering George Kennan [electronic resource] : lessons for today? / Melvyn P. Leffler. Washington, DC : U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsgpr&AN=edsgpr.000596557

Authors

NOVIKOV Dmitrii PAVLOVICH
Vishniakova Nataliia Vladimirovna
Zakharova Elizaveta Sergeevna

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