Бакалавриат 2020/2021

История международных отношений

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Статус: Курс по выбору (Программа двух дипломов НИУ ВШЭ и Университета Кёнхи «Экономика и политика в Азии»)

Направление: 41.03.01. Зарубежное регионоведение

Кто читает: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Где читается: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 2, 3 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Щербаков Николай Георгиевич

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 66

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “History of International Relations, XX century” is aimed for the students who mastered the basics of World History of New and Modern Period. They are supposed to compare now the main sources and the nature of international tension that characterized the pre-First World War as well as the pre-Second World War periods. This will be carried out through the analyses of main ideological, political, economic and cultural trends both of international and regional scale. The personal influence over the system of International Relations by outstanding figures of the XX century historical scene will be analyzed. All this will enable to trace the true reasons for the start of Cold War straight after the common victory in WW-II. The developments of the second half of the XX-th century will be studied through the prism of UN formation, creation of bi-polar system, decolonization process, establishment of new actors for the system of international relations. All this will bring us closer to the understanding of main ideas and comprehensive theory of international relations created by modern foreign politics exercised by numerous sovereign states

Learning Objectives

• The course “History of International Relations, XX Century” is aimed to place student into the center of modern discourse dealing with comprehensive bilateral and multilateral agreements, driving forces and сharismatic personalities that created the modern system of International Relations.

Course Contents

• Introduction: The creation of multipolar world structure resulting from First World War.
  Understanding of the main results of the First World War and the formation of centers of power.
• Novelties introduced by Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations into the system of International Relations.
  New international legal approaches developed at the Paris Peace Conference to analyze a specific regional situation. Charter of the League of Nations / Treaty of Versailles, elective articles. Recommended: Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Pipes R. Communism. London, 2002 Tooze A. Deluge. The Great War and Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931. London, 2014 Optional: Chomsky N. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use. New York, 1987. Rogan,Eugen. The Fall of the Ottomans. The Great War in the Middle East 1914-1920. London, 2015 Sassoon D. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. London, 1997
• The destiny of great Empires according or against the will of their peoples. "Summing up" - testing the results of the introductory part.
  Reshaping of four great empires – main ideas of the old and new political and public forces and new possibilities of international actors to interfere. Recommended: Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Rogan,Eugen. The Fall of the Ottomans. The Great War in the Middle East 1914-1920. London, 2015 Tooze A. Deluge. The Great War and Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931. London, 2014 Kennedy P. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. N.Y.: Random House, 1987
• Post-war settlement in Eastern Asia and creation of Versailles- Washington Order.
  China, Japan and Russian Far East Region – new political forces to influence the regional and world agenda. Understanding of the additions made to the operation of the system of international relations system of the Washington Conference in 1921. Decisions and agreements reached the Washington Conference 1921. Recommended: Schwarcz V. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Berkeley, 1989 Coox A. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia. Vol. 1–2. Stanford, 1985. Kennedy P. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. N.Y.: Random House, 1987. Roberts F. Dealing with Dictators: The Destruction and Revival of Europe 1930-1970. London, 1991 Optional: Elcock H. Portrait of a Decision: The Council of Four and the Treaty of Versailles. L.: Eyre Methuen, 1972. Kennan G.F. Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1941. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1960
• The impact of World economic crisis onto Versailles- Washington Order. "Summing up" - testing the results of the first part.
  An idea of the extent, features of the course and the results of the global economic crisis of 1929-1933. Work with a map, chronological tables and statistical data. Recommended: A) Bairoch P. Economics and World History. Myths and Paradoxes. Hemel Hempstead, 1993 Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Fink C., Gassert P., Junker D. (eds.) The World Transformed. Cambridge, 1998 Optional: Johnson, Paul. “Modern Times”: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties. London, 1983 McDermott K., Agnew J. The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. Basingstoke, 1996 Pipes R. Communism. London, 2002 Roberts F. Dealing with Dictators: The Destruction and Revival of Europe 1930-1970. London, 1991 Tooze A. Deluge. The Great War and Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931. London, 2014 Watt D.C. How War Came. The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1989
• Crisis of Versailles- Washington Order: ideological and regional specifics in second half of 1930-th .
  The main causes of the multiple conflicts of the second half of 1930 that led to the crisis of the Versailles-Washington system of international relations - Work with a map and chronological tables. Recommended: A) Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Jackson J. The popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38. Cambridge, 1988 Johnson, Paul. “Modern Times”: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties. London, 1983 Kedward R. Fascism in Western Europe 1900-1945. New York 1971 Martin T. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Ithaca, 2001 Optional: Service R. Comrades: a World History of Communism, London, 2007 Solzhenitsyn A. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. New York 1974 McDermott K., Agnew J. The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. Basingstoke, 1996 Pipes R. Communism. London, 2002 Roberts F. Dealing with Dictators: The Destruction and Revival of Europe 1930-1970. London, 1991 Watt D.C. How War Came. The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1989
• The initial period of WW-II and structural features of Anti-Hitler Coalition through WW-II.
  An idea of the ways of formation and results of the anti-Hitler coalition*s cooperation during the Second World War. Decisions of one of the main international conferences of countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition. Recommended : Watt D.C. How War Came. The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1989 Coox A. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia. Vol. 1–2. Stanford, 1985. Shirer W.L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A History of Nazi Germany. N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Ambrose S. Rise to Globalism. American Foreign Policy Since 1938. Seventh Revised Edition. -New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Gross J.N. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland*s Western Ukraine and Western Bellorussia. Princeton, 1988 Optional: Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Jackson J. The popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38. Cambridge, 1988
• Laying out the post-war World Order and start of new confrontation resulting from WW-II.
  Major contradictions leading to the start of the Cold War. - Work with a map and chronological tables. Recommended : Armstrong Ph., Glinn A., Harrison J. Capitalism Since 1945. Oxford, 1991 Branderberger D. National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the formation of Modern Russian National Identity.Cambridge, Mass., 2002 Naimark N., Gibiansky L. (eds.) The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder, 1997 Gaddis J. We Know Now. Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, 1997 Optional: Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Karabell Z. Architects of Intervention: the United States, the Third World and the Cold War, 1946-1962. Baton Rouge, 1999 Louis W.R. The British Empire in the Middle East. 1945-1951. Arab Nationalism, the United States and Postwar Imperialism. London, 1984 Tomlinson B.R. The Indian National Congress and the Raj 1929-1942: The Penultimate Phase. London, 1976 Trachtenberg M. A Constracned Peace. The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton, 1999
• Shaping the bi-polar international system: initial forms and regional motivations – gazing from the West.
  Understanding of the content of allied relations and the specific interests of the main participants in the Cold War. Working with a map and chronological tables of regional events of the initial phase of the Cold War. Recommended: Calvocoressi P. World Politics since 1945. London 1989 Friedrich C.J., Brzezinsky Z.K. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge MA, 1965 Zubkova E. Russia after the War. Hopes, Illusions and Dissapointments, 1945-1957. New York, 1998 Optional: Djilas M. Memoir of a Revolutionary. New York, 1973 Gaddis J. We Know Now. Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, 1997 Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Larres K. Churchill*s Cold War. The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. London, 2002 Nitze P., Smith A., Rearden St.L. From Hiroshima to Glasnost. At the Center of Discussion. New York, 1989 Trachtenberg M. A Constracned Peace. The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton, 1999
• Shaping the bi-polar international system: initial forms and regional motivations – gazing from the East.
  Understanding of the content of allied relations and the specific interests of the main participants in the Cold War. Working with a map and chronological tables of regional events of the initial phase of the Cold War. Recommended: Cummings D. The Origins of the Korean War. Princeton, 1990 Karabell Z. Architects of Intervention: the United States, the Third World and the Cold War, 1946-1962. Baton Rouge, 1999 Katz M.( ed.) The USSR and Marxist Revolution in the Third World. Cambridge, 1990 Optional Louis W.R. The British Empire in the Middle East. 1945-1951. Arab Nationalism, the United States and Postwar Imperialism. London, 1984 Perez-Stable M. The Cuban Revolution. Origins, Cource and Legacy.New York, 1999 Prasad V. The Darker Nations: A People*s History of the Third World. New York, 2007 Senghor L. On African Socialism. New York, 1964
• Risky walk on the brink of war in 1950-th – beginning of 1960-th.
  Understanding of the causes and course of events that led to the most dangerous aggravation of relations between the leading powers during the Caribbean crisis. Correspondence and key documents of the Caribbean crisis. Recommende: Gaddis J. We Know Now. Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, 1997 Fursenko A., Naftali T. Khrushchev*s Cold War. New York, 2006 Friedrich C.J., Brzezinsky Z.K. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge MA, 1965 Schoultz L. Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America. Cambridge, Mass., 2005 Taubman W. Khrushchev. The Man and his Era. New York, 2003 Zubkova E. Russia after the War. Hopes, Illusions and Dissapointments, 1945-1957. New York, 1998 Optional: Hobsbawm E. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. New York,1994 Johnson, Paul. “Modern Times”: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties. London, 1983 Walicki A. Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom. Stanford, 1995 Service R. Comrades: a World History of Communism, London, 2007
• "Summing up" - testing the results of the second part.
• Numerous confrontations as hot-points of Cold war.
  Causes and features of the development of regional conflicts that characterized the course of the Cold War in various regions Analysis of program documents / international agreements/decisions of international or regional organizations in connection with the beginning or end of a regional conflict. Recommende: Calvocoressi P. World Politics since 1945. London 1989 Karabell Z. Architects of Intervention: the United States, the Third World and the Cold War, 1946-1962. Baton Rouge, 1999 Louis W.R. The British Empire in the Middle East. 1945-1951. Arab Nationalism, the United States and Postwar Imperialism. London, 1984 Andrew C., Mitrokhin V. The KGB and the World. The Mitrokhin Archive. London, 1999 Trachtenberg M. A Constracned Peace. The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton, 1999 Optional: Cummings D. The Origins of the Korean War. Princeton, 1990 Friedrich C.J., Brzezinsky Z.K. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge MA, 1965 Gaddis J. We Know Now. Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, 1997 Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Nitze P., Smith A., Rearden St.L. From Hiroshima to Glasnost. At the Center of Discussion. New York, 1989
• Stabilization of the system of international relations and ripening of relaxation of international tension.
  An idea of the origins and characteristics of the formation of a policy of detente of international tension by the mid-1970s. - Analysis of international legal documents that formalized the policy of detente. Recommende: Friedrich C.J., Brzezinsky Z.K. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge MA, 1965 Galbraith J.K. The New Industrial State. Harmonsdworth, 1974 Klimke M., Sharloth J. (eds.)1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977. New York 2008 Richmond Y. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising of the Iron Curtain. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003 Zubok V. A failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, 2007 Optional: Giorgis D.W/ Red Tears: War, Femine and Revolution in Ethiopia. Trenton, NJ, 1989 Haile-Selassie T. The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to Military Oligarchy. London, 1997 Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Kornai J. Economics of Shortage. Amsterdam, 1980 Nitze P., Smith A., Rearden St.L. From Hiroshima to Glasnost. At the Center of Discussion. New York, 1989 Marwick A. The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-1974. Oxford, 1998
• Failure of détente and dangerous renewal of bipolar confrontation.
  The causes and features of the resumption of confrontation of the main participants in the Cold War in the late 1970s - 1980s. - Analysis of agreements between major Cold War actors in the 1980s. Recommende: Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Kotkin S. Armageddon Averted. The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000. Oxford, 2000 Lewin M. The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation. London, 1988 Lieven A. The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence. New Haven\London, 1993 Zubok V. A failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, 2007 Optional: Naimark N., Gibiansky L. (eds.) The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder, 1997 Lahusen Th., Kuperman G. (eds.) Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Durham, 1993 Levin A.J. The Missile and Space Race. Westport, 1994 Verdery S. What was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton, 1996 Yurchak A/ Everything was Forever, until It was No More. The last Soviet Generation. Princeton, 2006 Zubok V. A failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, 2007
• Breakup of the Yalta system. "Summing up" - testing the results of the third part.
  Understanding of the causes and course of processes and events leading to the end of the Cold War - Work with a map and chronological tables. Recommende: Brzezinski Z. Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of Twenty-first Century. New York, 1993 Judt T. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007 Kotkin S. Armageddon Averted. The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000. Oxford, 2000 Lewin M. The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation. London, 1988 Lieven A. The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence. New Haven\London, 1993 Westad O.A. The Globak Cold War: Third World Interventions and the making of Our Times. New York, 2005 Optional: Naimark N., Gibiansky L. (eds.) The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder, 1997 Lahusen Th., Kuperman G. (eds.) Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Durham, 1993 Verdery S. What was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton, 1996 Yurchak A/ Everything was Forever, until It was No More. The last Soviet Generation. Princeton, 2006 Zubok V. A failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, 2007

Assessment Elements

• Intermediate Test 1
  "Summing up" - testing the results of the first part
• Intermediate Test 2
  "Summing up" - testing the results of the second part
• Intermediate Test 3
  "Summing up" - testing the results of the third part
• Final exam
  Examination Type: standard interlocution being guided by the examination ticket*s questions (2) which are supposed to cover the material covered by lectures and additional discussions inspired by them in the classes. Additional questions can be utilized in order to clear up the real level of student*s understanding\proficiency.
• Class participation and positive attendance

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (3 module)
  The grade for this course is based on a midterm (10%x3=30%) , a final exam 50%, class participation and positive attendanc - 20%

Bibliography

Recommended Core 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
• Martin, T. (DE-588)124672329, (DE-576)294440348. (2001). The affirmative action empire : nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union; 1923 - 1939 / Terry Martin. Ithaca [u.a.]: Cornell Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.09042428X
• Rogan, E. L. (2015). The Fall of the Ottomans : The Great War in the Middle East. New York, NY: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=953819
• Westad, O. A. (2007). The Global Cold War : Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times: Vol. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge University Press.
• 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

• Ganguly, L. (2007). Alexei Yurchak: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.951C3C60