Estudia

1. The interwar period and the Second World War: a) Political, economical and social context; b) The rise of fascisms and ultranationalism; c) War developments and battle fronts.

2. The post-1945 international order, EE.UU. and the USSR as the new world superpowers and the establishment of the “iron curtain’: a) The world situation in 1945; b) USA and Soviet Union: the new protagonists of world politics; c) The beginning of the Cold War (1946-1949), the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; d) The Marshall Plan and its implementation.

3. The collapse of the empires and the process of decolonisation: a) Decolonization in India and Southeast Asia; b) Palestine and Israel; c) The constitution of Mao Tse-Tung's China and the Korean scenario; d) The Third World and the Movement of non-aligned countries; e) The Cuban revolution.

4. The European integration process: from the Schuman declaration in 1950 to the present time: a) A new idea of Europe; b) The first European institutions; c) From the EEC to the EU; d) Recent developments in the integration process.

5. The evolution of the two blocs of the Cold War and People's China from the 1950s to the oil crisis of 1973 and the Helsinki Conference: a) The USA: from Eisenhower to Johnson and the Vietnam War; b) The Soviet Union: from Stalin’s death to Brezhnev and the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968; c) The break between the USSR and China and the Chinese "Cultural Revolution"; d) The 1968 youth movements; e) The invasion of Prague in 1968; f) The process of detente between the two superpowers and the crisis of 1973.

6. The end of the last authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe: a) The transition to democracy in Spain; b) The transition to democracy in Portugal; c) The transition to democracy in Greece.

7. Neoliberalism and the Second Cold War: a) Thatcher, Reagan, neoliberalism and neoconservatism; b) Iran and the Islamic danger; c) The Second Cold War; d) Internal conflicts in the communist bloc: Afghanistan; e) Deng Xiaoping's China.

8. The end of the Cold War: a) Gorbachev, the perestroika and the beginning of the crisis of the Soviet bloc; b) End of the USSR and German reunification; c) The fall of communism in central and eastern Europe.

9. Human rights and their evolution in the XX and XXI centuries: a) The universal declaration of human rights of 1948 and subsequent developments; b) Gender inequality and feminism; c) Human rights and sustainable development; d) Ecology, climate change and energy transition.

10. Refugees as historical subjects: from the origins this global phenomenon in the interwar period to nowadays: a) The appearance of a “refugee problem” after WWI; b) Creating a global refugee regime; c) The Geneva Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Additional Protocol as the bedrock of the contemporary refugee protection system; d) Refugee crises in the XXI century

11. Globalisation, the 2008 economic recession and the current challenges to democracy: a) Economic transformation since 1945, globalisation and its crises; b) The crisis of 2008 and subsequent changes; c) The rise of populisms; d) The new radical.

• Bozo, Frédéric, Rey, Marie-Pierre, Rother, Bernd and Ludlow, N. Piers (eds.) (2012). Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990. New York: Berghahn Books. Catàleg
• Cavallaro, Maria Elena and Kornetis, Kostis (eds.) (2019). Rethinking democratisation in Spain, Portugal and Greece. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Freedman, Estelle (2022). No turning back: the history of feminism and the future of women. New York: Random House.
• Fuentes Codera, Maximiliano and Rodrigo, Javier (2022). Ellos, los fascistas: la banalización del fascismo y la crisis de la democracia. Barcelona: Deusto. Catàleg
• Iordachi, Constantine (2009). Comparative Fascist Studies. New Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury. Catàleg
• Jensen, Jan and Osterhammel, Jurgen (2017). Decolonisation. A short story. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Mazower, Mark (1998). Dark continent: Europe’s Twenty Century. London: Allen Lane.
• Nesser, Petter (2018). Islamic terrorism in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ther, Philipp (2019). The Outsiders. Refugees in Europe since 1492 . Princeton : Princeton University Press. Catàleg
• The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Catàleg
• The Cambridge History of the European Union (2024). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Catàleg
• The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (2012). Oxford : Oxford University Press. Catàleg
• The Oxford Handbook of Populism (2017). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Catàleg

Assessment activities:

See the evaluation criteria.
Plagiarism by any means is a serious academic offence and will automatically be marked with a 0 (final mark of the course).

Specific criteria for the "No show" grade:
The student who does not complete all the requested assignments on time and/or in the forms established by the professor will be considered as “Absent”.

Single Assessment:
The student has the possibility to take a single final exam that will cover all the topics addressed throughout the course.

Minimum requirements to pass:
In order to pass the exam, a minimum mark of 5.0 is required.

Tutoring will take place in person (History Department, 4° floor, office no. 425) and, if not possible, through email and virtual platforms (by appointment).

Office hours:
Tuesday 16.30-17.30
Friday 10.00-11.00

In person, by email and Moodle.