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Бакалаврская программа «Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»»

History Since 1945

2026/2027
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
3
Кредиты
Статус:
Курс обязательный
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

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Course Syllabus

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

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

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

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

Assessment Elements

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

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

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