Università Roma Tre

The first part of the course will discuss the origins of the second world war as well as the tranformation of the international system during the conflict, focusing in particolar on the search for a new world order by the Allied powers. The second part of the course will analyze the key dynamics of the bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR, as well as decolonization and the process of European integration. Special attention will be dedicated to the main crises of the cold war and to its gradual stabilization. The last part of the course will focus on the end of bipolarism and its historiographical interpretations.

Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali, vol. I, Dalla pace di Versailles alla conferenza di Potsdam 1919-1945, from p. 243 to the end
Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali, vol. II, II. Gli anni della guerra fredda 1946-1990, the whole book