Syllabus
1) International relations during the Second World War 2) The world on the threshold of a new conflict? (1945-1953) 3) The Soviet bloc and its crisis 4) The main problems of international relations in the 1950s and 1960s 5) Indochina and Algeria in international relations 6) The Middle East in world politics 7) The 1970s: détente, a turning point in economic development 8) The Seventies behind the Iron Curtain 9) The 1980s: the road to the end of the Cold War 10) The collapse of the Soviet bloc 11) The US and Latin America in the Cold War 12) International relations on the road to the new millennium
Annotation
This course focuses on the history of the international relations in the second half of the 20th century.