International Relations History

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods include sessions centred on the themes previously defined, complemented by moments of discussion and analysis of texts that allow an in-depth knowledge of the historical moments in analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome

- Understand and analyse the main topics and problems pertaining to the development of International Relations through a historical perspective.

Specific learning outcomes and skills

- Get acquainted with the main events that marked the history of international relations between the beginning of the "age of revolutions" and the end of the Cold War (1789-1989);

- Understand the socioeconomic and political forces that have shaped the different configurations of the new international system in this period;

- Analyse the connections between the most relevant historical facts and the global balances/imbalances of power.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. History of International Relations: theoretical perspectives, concepts, issues and main paradigms;

2. Two revolutions: liberalisms and inudstrial capitalisms;

3. The Concert of Europe and its challenges;

4. From imperialism to the First World War;

5. From peace to the Second World War;

6. The origins of the Cold War;

7. Cold War, decolonization and the Third World;

8. Capitalism, socialism and globalization;

9. From the end of the Cold War to the end of history.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Pedro Amaral Cabouco Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

BEST, Antony; J. Hanhimaki; J. Maiolo; K. Schulze, International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Londres, Routledge, 2008;

HOBSBAWM, ERIC, A Era das Revoluções, Lisboa: Presença, 2001;

MARKS, Robert, The Origins of the Modern World, Lanham: Rowman, 2007;

MAZOWER, Mark, Governing the World, Londres: Penguin, 2012;

PEREIRA, Juan Carlos (coord.), Historia de las relaciones internacionales contemporáneas, Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 2009.