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Teacher
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VALLI MARCO
(syllabus)
The history of international relations: origin, method and definitions; 2. From diplomatic history to the history of international relations; 3. The history of international relations in the contemporary age.
1919 -1929. The Paris peace conference and its consequences in Europe; the new international order 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; the coming to power of Hitler and the transformation of the international scenario up to the Spanish civil war; Asia and Africa between the two world wars; towards World War II.
1939 - 1945. The European phase of the Second World War; the conflict becomes global; «the turn of the tide»; the allied victory; the Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods conferences; the Yalta conference; the atomic weapon, the surrender of Japan and the Potsdam conference.
1945 - 1956. Historiography and interpretations of the Cold War; the sovietization of central-eastern Europe and the militarization of the East-West confrontation: the "Truman doctrine" and the Marshall plan; the Korean War, NATO and German rearmament; the death of Stalin and the «first détente».
945 - 1960. Decolonization and liberation movements; 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 intolerance towards the hegemony of the United States.
1957 - 1969. The bipolar world and the premises of the «great détente»; the East - West confrontation in the Khrushchev era: Berlin, Cuba, the Test Ban Treaty; the USA and Indochina from Kennedy to Johnson; the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Third World and Europe.
1968 - 1980. The fracture of the seventies; the Bretton Woods crisis and the oil shock; Henry Kissinger and the great détente : successes and limitations; Europe and Brandt's "Ostpolitik"; the Carter administration: from the season of human rights to the crisis of great détente.
1979 - 1991. From the new cold war to the end of the East - West confrontation; Reagan's America and the "second cold war"; the Europe of Delors and the Single European Act; Gorbachev's leadership and the fall of the Berlin Wall; the Gulf War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union; the end of the cold war in Europe and its consequences in the rest of the world.
1992 - 2001. The illusion of a new international order; the Treaty of Maastricht and the birth of the European Union; the crises in the Balkans and the Yugoslav wars; the evolution of NATO and the final phase of the Yugoslav conflict; globalization and the «no global» movements.
2001 - 2019. From a multipolar world to a new international disorder? ; 9/11 and its aftermath; the war in Iraq and the Middle East; Putin's Russia; Lula's Brazil; the rise of China; the illusion of the EU as a "civil power", the enlargement to the east and the failure of the constitutional treaty; the Trump Presidency in a divided West; the arc of crisis from the Mediterranean to the Middle East; Africa and Latin America; concluding considerations.
(reference books)
E. Di Nolfo, Dagli imperi militari agli imperi tecnologici
Laterza, Roma Bari, 2021, ISBN 978-88-420-8495-2
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