| CODE | HST3009 | ||||||
| TITLE | History of International Relations | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 8 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Prerequisite: Students following this course are normally expected to have followed the first year of the History BA programme. International Relations between the World Wars (2 credits) investigates the changing pattern of international relations as a result of the radical changes that occurred after the First World War during a complex and fast-moving period of international history when European powers directed world affairs apparently for the last time before the emergence of superpowers. The central theme therefore is the unpreparedness of the big powers for a new international order and the implications of this to the outbreak of the next war. Reading List: - E.H. Carr, International Relations between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939, London 1990. - Charles H. Feinstein, et al., The European Economy between the Wars, Oxford 1997. - Richard S. Grayson, Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe: British Foreign policy 1924-1929, London 1997. - R.A.C. Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasment: british Policy and the coming of the Second World War, London 1993. - Geoffrey C. Roberts, The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War. Russo-German Relations and the Road to War, 1993-1941, London 1994. - A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War, London 1961. - Robert J. Young, France and the origins of the Second World War, London Contemporary International Relations (Seminar for History students only, 6 credits) investigates the main issues in post-war international relations in a transformed world when international history becomes really world history. Taking as a framework the themes that define the era of international history since the Second World War - the quest for a new post-war international order; the emergence of the superpowers and their alliances and alignments; decolonisation and the coming into being of the 'Third World'; the East-West contest, nonalignment, and the North-South divide; the end of Euro-centric international relations and the eventual recovery of European ascendancy; the collapse of the post-war internation¬al order and the search once again for a new world order - these seminars investigate specific topics of current concern within this framework as well as more distant historical experience. The seminars aim at training students to apply historical knowledge to the understanding of current international problems and situations and, conversely, seek relevance in historical events by stressing historical continuity and the notion of the past defining the present. Reading List: - C.J. Bartlett, The Global Conflict, 1880-1970, London 1984. - Peter Calvocoressi, World Politics since 1945, London 1997. - Foreign Affairs (periodical). - International Affairs (periodical). - Keesing's Record of World Events (periodical). |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This Study-Unit is offered only to History students. | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dominic Fenech |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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