Università Roma Tre

The class will focus on international history during the period from the end of WWI to the end of the 1970s. Particular attention will be devoted to the progressive weakening of empires, to the rise of the global Cold War and the parallel emergence of the Global South and to the conditions for the rise of the Washington Consensus in the 1980s.

Compulsory reading for the cll:
Antonio Varsori, "Storia internazionale dal 1919 ad oggi" (chapt I to chapt. VII included)


For the "non frequentanti", in addition to compulsory readings, one among the following:
- Sara Lorenzini, "Una strana guerra fredda. Lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud"
- Dani Rodrik, "La globalizzazione intelligente"
- Vijay Prashad, "Storia del Terzo mondo"