MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

  History 3094/5094                                                     Summer, 2008
  International Relations Since 1945                           Mr. Bowling
 

  Readings:

	Niall Ferguson, The War of the World     (New York, 2007).
	Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World:     America's Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge,    Mass., 2007).
	Bruce Kucklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals &    War From Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton,    2006).
	James M. Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United    States and State Building, 1954-1968     (Cambridge, 2008).
	Rachel Bronson, Thicker Than Oil: America's    Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia    (New York, 2006).
	Pietra Rivoli, Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global    Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets,    Power and Politics of World Trade (New York,    2005).
	Joan Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy from    Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of    Perfectibility (Cambridge, 2007).

Requirements:

          1.    Attendance.
            2.    Participation.
          3.    Readings.
          4.    Oral Reports (longer for graduate students), on topics to be approved
                 by the instructor, based on library research for which some class time
                will be provided.
            5.   Successful completion of two examinations.  

  General Statement of Purpose and Plan of Study:

  In the aftermath of World War II, “year zero,” a “new world order” took shape,
  made by the victorious powers of that epochal conflict.  There soon followed the
  long history of the Cold War, which overshadowed most international relations
  until its demise in the late 1980s. The so-called “bipolarity” of the Cold War
  international structure was then replaced with the new situation of the
  unprecedented power of the United States.

  Topics:

• 1945: A World Destroyed, A New World Born
• The Wars of the 20th Century; What Created "1945"
• The Cold War Begins
• The United Nations's Early Crises
• Decolonization in its Varied Forms
• Mao's China
• The Appeal of Communism & of Authoritarianism
• Independent Africa's Problems
• Detente in the Cold War
• The Economic Shocks of the 1970s
• The "New Cold War" of the 1980s
• The Renewal of the United States
• Victory in the Cold War
• The Renewal of Capitalism
• Development & Underdevelopment (continued)
• The Rise of East Asia, continued
• The New Europe
• Modern Terrorism
• The Debate over America's Role in the 21st Century
  
  
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