Storia Contemporanea (PhD)
Programma
Module 2: Global Cold War: La guerra fredda come guerra globale
Starting from an exploration of the impact of decolonization on twentieth-century history, the course investigates the relationship between decolonization and the Cold War. It is organized around an understanding of the East–West conflict as a contest between alternative modernities and development models, with particular emphasis on regional perspectives. The discussion of key texts will provide a methodological introduction to the second part of the course
Module 3: Global Cold War: Research Seminar
The second part of the course will take the form of a Forschungskolloquium on case studies, with students presenting original research on selected case studies. A number of guest lectures will also be offered
Obiettivi formativi
2) Acquire knowledge of the specialized literature on the Global Cold War as a confrontation between competing modernities
3) Ability to produce a research paper: formulation of a research question on a specialised topic Preparation of a literature review Ability to present and discuss original research within a peer group (graduate conference)
Riferimenti bibliografici
(CO2 e PhD1) e 3) PhD
A. Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire : The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton University Press, 2020.
O.A. Westad, The Global Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2008
S. Lorenzini, Global Development. A Cold War History, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019
V. Prashad, The Darker Nations. A People’s History of the Third World, New Press, 2007
A. Escobar, Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press, 2013.
D. Ekbladh, The Great American Mission : Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton University Press, 2010.
J. Taffet, Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy : The Alliance for Progress in Latin America. Routledge, 2007.
V. Pettinà, A Compact History of Latin America’s Cold War: Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2022
J. Friedman, Ripe for Revolution : Building Socialism in the Third World. Harvard University Press, 2022
N. Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
M. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution : Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present. Cornell University Press, 2011.
C. Unger, International Development : A Postwar History. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
D. Engerman, The Price of Aid : The Economic Cold War in India. Harvard University Press, 2019.
C. Thornton, Revolution in Development : Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. University of California Press, 2021.
F. Gerits, The Ideological Scramble for Africa : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966. Cornell University Press, 2024.
J. Mark and P. Betts, Socialism Goes Global : The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Moduli
| Modulo | Ore | CFU | Docenti |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modulo 2: Modulo 2: Global Cold War: La guerra fredda come guerra globale (per ordinari e PhD) | 20 | 3 | Sara Lorenzini |
| Modulo 3: The Global Cold War and Beyond: Nuove direzioni di ricerca nella storia della guerra fredda (per PhD) | 20 | 3 | Sara Lorenzini |