Università Roma Tre

The class will focus on international history during the period from the end of WWI to the Twin Towers attack in 2001. 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 and to the failed attempt to impose US unilateral hegemony.
The course will have special focus also on the international history of Communism in the "short Twentieth Century".

Compulsory Readings:
Antonio Varsori, "Storia internazionale dal 1919 ad oggi" (the entire volume);
Silvio Pons, "La rivoluzione globale. Storia del comunismo internazionale" (the entire volume)