Teacher
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HOBEL ALEXANDER
(syllabus)
During the course, the following thematic nuclei and chronological junctions are deepened: 1900-1918. The age of imperialism and the First World War
1919-1929. The Paris Peace Conference and its consequences in Europe; the new international structure outside Europe; Executionist politics and its limits; the Franco-German rapprochement and the illusion of "collective security".
1929 - 1939. The economic crisis of 1929 and the fall of the Versailles system; Hitler's coming to power and the transformation of the international scenario up to the Spanish civil war; Asia and Africa between the two world wars; towards the second world war.
1939 - 1945. The European phase of the Second World War; the conflict becomes worldwide; "The turn of the tide"; the allied victory and plans for a stable post-war structure.
1945 - 1956. The origins of the cold war and the birth of two opposing systems; the militarization of the East-West confrontation: the Korean War, the birth of NATO, the German rearmament; Stalin's death and the "first détente".
1945 - 1960. Decolonization, liberation movements and non-alignment; the disintegration of the French empire: Indochina and North Africa; the Middle East from the birth of Israel to the Suez crisis; Latin America and the growing impatience towards the hegemony of the United States.
1957 - 1969. The short season of a bipolar world and the premises of the "great relaxation". The East-West confrontation in the era of Khrushchev: from Berlin to Cuba, at the Test Ban Treaty. The US and Indochina from Kennedy to Johnson; the Sino-Soviet conflict, instability in the Third World, stability in Europe.
1968 - 1980. The fracture of the seventies, the crisis of the West and the awareness of the South of the world. Henry Kissinger and the great relaxation: successes and limits; Europe in the face of great relaxation and Brandt's "Ostpolitik"; the Carter administration: from the human rights season to the crisis of great relaxation.
1979 - 1991. From the new cold war to the end of the East - West clash. Reagan's America and the "second cold war"; the signs of change in society and the economy; Western Europe in search of an identity and an international role; Gorbachev's new Soviet leadership, the attempt to reform communism, the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the cold war in Europe and its consequences in the rest of the world.
1992 - 2001. The United States, the UN and the illusion of a new international order; the recomposition of the European continent and its contradictions; the globalization.
2001 - today. From a multipolar world to a new international disorder? September 11 and its consequences; European illusions, American frustrations; the emergence of new international actors; a multipolar world or an apolar system? The contradictions and the unresolved knots of the present time.
(reference books)
Ennio Di Nolfo, "Dagli imperi militari agli imperi tecnologici", Laterza, 2002
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