MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 3094/5094                                                     Summer, 2003

International Relations Since 1945                            Mr. Bowling

 

Readings:

 

William R.  Keylor, A World of Nations; The International Order Since 1945 (New York, 2003).

Jeffrey Glen Giaque, Grand Designs & Visions of Unity; the Atlantic  Powers & the Reorganization 
    of Western Europe, 1955-1965  (Chapel Hill, 2002)

Darlene Rivas, Missionary Capitalist; Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela (Chapel Hill, 2002)

Madawi Al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia (Cambridge, 2002)

John L. Gaddis, We Now Know; Rethinking Cold War History  (New York, 1997)

 

Requirements:

 

1.    Attendance.

2.    Participation.

3.    Readings.

4.    Oral Reports.

5.   Successful completion of three 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 we will consider include:

• the origins and institutionalization of the Cold War;
• the decolonization of the old empires and the many
• difficulties along the way;
• the new world economic order;
• the outcome of the Cold War; and,
• the “new, new” world order struggling to be born in the early 21^st century.