Università Roma Tre

The course will focus on international history between the age of imperialism at the end of the 19th Century and the emergence of a multipolar world at the end of the Cold War.
Particular attention will be devoted to the progressive weakening of colonial 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.

Compulsory reading for the class (12 CFU):
1. Antonio Varsori, "Storia internazionale dal 1919 ad oggi";

2. Only for "non frequentanti" students one among the following:
- G. Arrighi, "Il lungo XX secolo"
- G. Arrighi, "Il lungo XX secolo"
- V. Bevins, "Il Metodo Giacarta"
- S. Lorenzini, “Una strana guerra fredda: lo sviluppo e le relazioni Nord-Sud”
- C. Miller "Chip War"
- R. Overy "Sangue e Rovine"
- V. Prashad, "Storia del Terzo mondo"
- D. van Reybrouck. "Revolusi. L'Indonesia e la nascita del mondo moderno"
- Q. Slobodian "Globalists"
- O.A. Westad, “La Guerra Fredda globale”

3. The "frequentant" will be assigned specific readings during the class.

ps: for the 6CFU class please study only chapters 1 to 7 (included) of the textbook by Varsori)