Fall, 2000
Module: Twentieth Century Diplomacy
Office: 316 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: 862-1752 E-mail: tom.trout@unh.edu
Web Page: http://www.unh.edu/political-science/trout.html
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Introduction
This module will survey the principal milestones that mark the passage of international relations in the twentieth centure. Our approach will be to look at several pivotal historical periods of the century around which the international order revolved. These "snapshots" will open with the eventsw emerging from the previous century that led to the outbreak of World War I and close with the end of the Cold War and the contemporary thrust toward "globalization". We will look at the political, economic and military/stratigic factors that define each period. And we will try as well to identify and trace the interactions of those factors among the periods.
Texts
William R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996.
IA401 "Twentieth-Century Diplomacy", University Copy Center, Course Packet Service, Fall 2000.
Papers
First Due: September 14Second due: October 5
Paper must be computer written:4 page limit / double spaced / 1 inch margins / 12-point font
Map Quizzes
Based on events being studied
September 14October 5
Lecture Schedule:
September 7
Security and the Balance of Power: The Diplomatic Prelude to the Twentieth Century
(Keylor-Prologue: Packet #1)
September 12
The End of the International Order--Part I: World War I and It's Aftermath
(Keylor- chs. 1-4; Packet #2-5)
September 14
The End of the International Order--Part II: Mass Movements and the Outbreak of World War II
(Keylor- chs. 5,7; Packet #6-16)
Map Quiz / First Paper Due
September 19
The Quest for Postwar Order: Competing Ideologies and the Advent of the Cold War
(Keylor- chs. 8-9; Packet #17-24)
September 21
Nuclear Weapons and the "Long Peace": The Superpower Era
(Keylor- chs. 10-11; Packet #25-29)
September 26
The Spread of Nationalism: The Latent Force of Decolonization
(Keylor- chs. 5, 12-14; Packet #30-31)
September 28
The "Short Peace": Nuclear Arms Control, Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
(Keylor- chs. 16-17; Packet #32-43)
October 3
Regional Conflict: Religion, Culture, Ethnicity and Diplomacy
(Keylor- chs. 18-21; Packet #43)
October 5
So What Now? Globalization, Environmentalism, and Democratic Peace
(Keylor- ch. 22; Packet #45-49
Map Quiz / Second Paper Due