Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

POLÍTICA INTERNACIONAL CONTEMPORÂNEA - 2013/2014

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Drª Susana Ferreira
Assistant Professor: Drª Susana Ferreira

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

This course aims at understanding the big issues of Contemporary International Politics, since the end of World War II to the present, so that students can understand the reality of international politics today, including their framework in this globalized world.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Characterizing the period of the Cold War or the East-West relations (1947-1986), the end of the Cold War with the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union (1986-1991) and International Politics in the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.

Skills to be acquired

To provide students the training necessary for the understanding of contemporary International Politics, in light of the recent past that has influenced and continues to influence the present time, in order to better understand the political power in contemporary society and nature and direction of political and strategic relations between states, giving them the selection skills, critical analysis and research specific to the university level.

Teaching Procedures

Methodology based on participatory classes, personal interventions, oral and written, and group discussions, reflection on specific cases of international politics in order to develop their capacity for analysis, work in teams to develop their skills of communication and persuasion; texts available to students in e-learning.

Programme

1 - Introduction
1.1 - Nature, purpose and method of the discipline of International Politics
1.2 - The major issues of International Politics
1.3 - Importance of discipline in the context of the degree in International Relations
1.4 - Guidance bibliographic

2 - Major trends in the development of International Politics (1945-1990)

2.1 - The Cold War
2.1.1 - The state of the world after World War II
2.1.2 - The superiority of two powers
2.1.3 - The first events of the Cold War
2.1.4 - The new international political order
a) The United Nations Charter

2.1.5 - The new international economic order
a) The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
b) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
c) The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

2.1.6 - The emergence of the blocks
a) The division of Europe
b) The U.S. leadership
c) The Truman Doctrine
d) The Policy of Containment
e) The Marshall Plan

2.1.7 - Germany: a state divided
a) Germany under the tutelage
b) The Berlin Blockade
c) The birth of two states

2.1.8 - The institutionalization of the blocks
2.1.8.1 - The constitution of the ideological and political
a) Kominform
b) The Council of Europe

2.1.8.2 - The formation of military alliances
2.1.8.2.1 - The "Free World"
a) The Treaty of Dunkirk to March 4, 1947
b) The Brussels Treaty of March 17, 1948
c) The North Atlantic Treaty of August 4, 1949
d) The failure of the EDC and the Paris Agreements of 23 October 1954 (WEU)

2.1.8.2.2 - The "Eastern Bloc"
a) The Warsaw Pact (May 14, 1955)
2.1.8.3 - The formation of economic alliances
a) The Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC)
b) The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or FALL)
c) The European Communities
• The Shuman Plan, the ECSC
• Treaties The EEC and EAEC or Euratom

2.1.9 - The extension of the East-West conflict
2.1.9.1 - The Middle East
a) The Baghdad Pact
b) The question of the Suez Canal

2.1.9.2 - The Pacific area
a) The Korean War
b) The Sino-Soviet relations
c) The Organization of the Treaty on Southeast Asia (OTASE)

3 - Détente (1956-1979)
3.1 - The concept of Détente
3.1.1 - Two conceptions of Détente
a) The Soviet design
b) The American conception

3.1.2 - A territorial status quo
a) The Berlin crisis
b) Ostpolitik
c) The Helsinki Accords (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, or CSCE)

3.1.3 - The boundaries of the Détente
a) The Cuba crisis
b) The war in Afghanistan

3.2 - The clash within the structural blocks
3.2.1 - The communist order
a) The "Coup" Polish (1956)
b) The intervention in Hungary (1956)
c) The "Prague Spring" (1968)
d) The "Summer of Gdansk" (1980)
e) The birth of the Sino-Soviet antagonism

3.2.2 - Clutter Atlantic
a) The crisis in NATO
b) The Franco-American crisis

3.3 - The issue of non-alignment or neutralism
3.3.1 - The Bandung Conference
3.3.2 - The Cairo Conference
3.3.3 - The Belgrade Conference
3.3.4 - The conference in Lusaka
3.3.5 - The Algiers Conference

4 - The end of East-West antagonism
4.1 - The transformation of political, ideological and economic of the USSR
4.1.1 - The Glasnost
4.1.2 - The Perestroika

4.2 - The disappearance of the Soviet Empire
4.2.1 - The emancipation of Eastern Europe
a) Poland
b) Hungary
c) RDA
d) Czechoslovakia or end of a Member
e) Bulgaria
f) Romania
g) Albania
h) Yugoslavia

4.2.2 - The implosion of the USSR
a) The awakening of nationalism
b) The coup of August 1991
c) The Agreement of Minsk, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

5 - The post-Cold War world: new challenges and new risks in the Globalized World
5.1 - terrorism, ethnic conflict, human rights abuses, political instability, economic fragility and the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of distribution.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation system is carried out according to the rules defined in the General Regulations Assessment of Knowledge Lusíada Universities. In this sense, is taken into account the ongoing evaluation, including attendance, participation, performance of operations, mini-tests, etc..

Teaching Resources

Cartographic, audiovisual and computer means available by university, including through the use of maps, overhead projector, data, television and video.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

International Politics
States
Cold War
Globalization

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography