Objectives:
1. Define the basic concepts of discipline.
2. Understand the importance of the geopolitical changes that have occurred in the course of the 19th century.
3. Highlight the implications of nationalism and nationalist race in the international system of the early 20th century.
4. Justify the impact of world wars in political and institutional level.
5. Identify the major issues of international politics in the period between wars.
6. Analyze the period of the cold war and its consequences.
7. Explain the system and the challenges of the superpowers.
8. Justify the new world order emerging in the years 70 and 80 of the 20th century.
Skills:
1. Mastery of vocabulary and essential concepts to the study of international politics.
2. Capacity of analysis, synthesis and questioning.
3. Capacity of argumentative reasoning in the discussion and debate of critical issues and themes.
4. Recognition of schemes and dominant political powers in 19th and 20th centuries.
INTRODUCTION
Basic concepts and issues of international politics
THE 19th CENTURY - NATIONS AND IMPERIALISMS
The Congress of Vienna and Restoration
Nationalisms (from 1848 to the processes of unification)
The birth of American power
The share of Africa and the colonial imperialism
THE 20th CENTURY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
World War I
Backgrounds and stages of conflict
Peace negotiations and geopolitical changes
THE SN
The period between wars
The Russian Revolution by Stalinism
The crisis of 1929
The affirmation of authoritarian regimes
World War II
The causes, extent and stakeholders
Peace negotiations and their results
THE UN
The cold war
Causes of rupture and the system of superpowers
Generalization of the cold war and decolonisation
The worsening in the 60s
The challenges of the superpowers: the Cultural Revolution; the Vietnam war and the Arab-Israeli conflict
The emergence of a new world order
The USA and the USSR
The revolutions of 1989 to the collapse of the USSR
The classes are based on exhibition and explanation of syllabus using PowerPoint sometimes. It is expected the participation of learners, either spontaneous or requested and, in this case, by means of research and reading and also interpretation of texts or documents that integrate an anthology compiled by the lecturer. The debate around key themes is part too, in some classes, of learning methodologies.
ARMSTRONG, D., LLOYD, L. and REDMOND, J., From Versailles to Maastricht: international organisation in the 20h century
BAYCROFT, T., O Nacionalismo na Europa, 1789-1945
BRUNET, J.P. e LAUNAY, M., Entre as duas Guerras. 1914-1945
FERRO, M., História das colonizações. Das conquistas às independência
Idem, A Grande Guerra, 1914-1918, 2ª ed.
Idem, A Revolução Russa de 1917, 2ª ed.
FURET, F.; NOLTE, E., Fascismo e Comunismo
GADDIS, J. L., A Guerra Fria
GILBERT, M., The Second World War : a complete history.
JENNINGS, F., The Creation of America: trought revolution to empire
MILZA, P., As Relações Internacionais de 1871 a 1914
Idem, As Relações Internacionais de 1918 a 1939
PARKER, R.A.C., História da Segunda Guerra Mundial, 3ª ed..
REMOND, R., Introdução à História do Nosso Tempo: do Antigo Regime aos nossos dias
TODD, A., The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini,
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