the end of the cold war
Project description
course work question
world politics since 1945, module number 176iss, module leader Robert, leadership ideology and economic factors have all been given as reasons for the ending of the cold war in the late 1980s. assess these rivel claims. which do you find to be the most convincing as explanation for the ending of the conflict?
I want you to include and write about the ( how did the cold war die? principals of autopsy)
Questions for Discussion
1. What were the defining features of the Cold War and are they of relevance today?
2. Did the collapse of the Soviet Union mark the End of History?
3. What do the events in Iran and Afghanistan in 1979 teach us about the Cold War?
Core Reading
Mansbach, Richard W. and Kirsten L. Taylor. Introduction to Global politics (Oxford, New York: Routledge, 2011) pp125-134.
Calvocoressi, Peter. World Politics since 1945. (Harlow: Longman Pearson, 2009) pp65-83 (The Disintegration of the USSR)
Kegley, C. W. How did the Cold War Die? Principles for an Autopsy. Mershon International Studies Review, April 1994, 38(1), pp11-41. Available from: http://www.mconway.net/page1/page8/files/Principles%20for%20an%20Autopsy.pdf
Recommended Reading
Ambrose, Stephen E. and Douglas Brinkley, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (New York and London: Penguin, 1997) Chapter 16.
Bill, James A. Resurgent Islam in the Persian Gulf. Foreign Affairs, Fall 1984, 63(1), pp108-127.
Blacker, Coit D. The Collapse of Soviet Power in Europe. Foreign Affairs, Special Issue 1990, 70(1).
Chekel, J. Ideas, Institutions and the Gorbachev Foreign Policy Revolution. World Politics, 1993, 45 (2).
Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History? National Interest. Summer 1989. Available from: http://ps321.community.uaf.edu/files/2012/10/Fukuyama-End-of-history-article.pdf
Gorbachev, M. Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World. (London: Fontana, 1988)
Halliday, Fred. Islam and the myth of confrontation: religion and politics in the Middle East. (London: IB Tauris, 1996) Chapter 2
Kissinger, Henry. Reflections on Containment. Foreign Affairs, May-June 1994, 73 (3), pp113-130.
Rustow, Dankwart A. Democracy: A Global Revolution. Foreign Affairs, Fall Issue 1990, 69(4).
Young, John W. and John Kent. International relations since 1945: A Global History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Chapters 5, 6 and 7.
