Università Roma Tre

The first part of the course covers the origins of the second world war and the transformation of the international system during the conflict, focusing in particular on the search for a new world order by the Allied Powers. The second part of the course will discuss the origins and the evolution of the Cold war, as well as the main phases of the twin process of decolonization and European integration. Special attention will be paid to some of the crucial crises of the Cold war as well as to the period of detente. The final part of the course will discuss the end of the bipolar confrontation and its main 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 of the book)
Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali, vol. II, II. Gli anni della guerra fredda 1946-1990