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NUTI LEOPOLDO
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The course intends to offer a general survey of the evolution of the international system since the end of the Cold War. After discussing the main historical interpretations of the causes of the Soviet collapse, the first part of the course will focus on the crises of the 1990s (Iraq, Yugoslavia, Somalia and Rwanda), the repeated failures of the UN, and the US and European search for a new international security paradigm. The second part of the course will look at the consequences of 9/11 as well as the war on terror, considering their long term impact on the hegemonic position of the US. It will also discuss the growing role of emerging powers such as China and India. Finally, the third part of the course looks at such recent events as the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, the Arab Springs and their consequences, the paralysis in the EU, and the crises in Ukraine and Syria.
CONTENT:
PART I – Introduction, historical controversies and the major features of the early post-cold war era.
Week 1
Introduction and description of the course. The search for new interpretive paradigms: the end of the Cold War or the triumph of globalization ?
Week 2
The rise of US hegemony and the search for a new Europe: the Kuwait war and the Maastricht negotiations
Weeks 3-4
The crises of the early 1990s: Yugoslavia, Somalia and Ruanda. The failure of assertive multilateralism and the search for alternatives. Contending US and EU security models
PART II
The war on terror and the rise of a multipolar system
Week 5
The drift towards US unilateralism: the Kosovo war and its implications for NATO and European security. The evolution of Russian foreign policy
Nuclear proliferation and arms control after the end of the Cold War: the North Korean crisis, the containment of Iraq, and the A.Q. Khan network
MIDTERM EXAM APRIL 10
Week 6
The impact of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the 2003 Iraq crisis.
Week 7
The rise of China and India and its impact on the international system. Will Asia return to the center of the international system?
PART III
What next?
Week 8
The erosion of US hegemony? The crisis in the Greater Middle East, 2003-2010 and the Obama administration’s pivot to Asia. The consolidation of the EU – and its stalemate. The Arab Springs and their aftermath. The Negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program
Week 9
2014-2015: the unraveling of the post-cold war order?
Week 10
Seminar – Class Presentations
Week 11
Seminar -Class Presentations
Week 12
Seminar -Class Presentations
Week 13
Seminar -Class Presentations
(reference books)
MANDATORY READINGS:
John Young and John Kent, International Relations Since 1945, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020),
Part VI, The Post-Cold War World 1990-2000,
Part VII, The Age of Terror, 2001-2012,
Part VIII The Age of Uncertainty: Chaos and Confusion in a Globalized World, 2011-18.
For the in class discussions, students will have to read the following essays:
Butt, Ahsan I. "Why Did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?". Security Studies 28, no. 2 : 250-85.
Cox, Michael. "Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War." Cold War History 7, no. 1 (2007/02/01 2007): 121-46.
Kramer, Mark, " NATO Enlargement—Was There a Promise?", in International Security, vol. 42, n.1, (Summer 2017) pp. 186-189
Ikenberry, G. John. "The Illusion of Geopolitics." Foreign Affairs 93, no. 3 (2014): 80-90.
Leffler, Melvyn P. "The Foreign Policies of the George W. Bush Administration: Memoirs, History, Legacy." Diplomatic History 37, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 190-216.
Mead, Walter Russell. "The Return of Geopolitics." Foreign Affairs 93, no. 3 (2014): 69-79.
Shifrinson, Joshua R. "Deal or No Deal?: The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit Nato Expansion." International Security 40, no. 4 (2016): 7-44.
Sarotte, Mary Elise. "A Broken Promise?", 90-97: Foreign Affairs, 2014.
Spohr, Kristina. "Germany, America and the Shaping of Post-Cold War Europe: A Story of German International Emancipation through Political Unification, 1989–90." Cold War History 15, no. 2 (2015/04/03 2015): 221-43.
Trachtenberg, Marc. "The United States and the Nato Non-Extension Assurances of 1990: New Light on an Old Problem?". International Security 45, no. 3 (2021): 162-203.
Westad, Odd Arne. “Has a New Cold War Really Begun?” Foreign Affairs, SNAPSHOT March 27, 2018
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard, at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
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