INTS 190-01, International Politics Since 1945, Fall 2009

Abstract

This course is a survey of key world events and trends in the international system since 1945. It has two objectives: (1) to provide the student with factual information on the post-World War II world, and (2) to raise questions relevant to the United States and its future in the post-Cold War international system. Topics will include the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War, communism and post-communism, bipolarity, decolonization and East-West competition, limited wars, the role of nuclear weapons in world politics, terrorism, nationalism, changes in the world economy, and security challenges facing the United States today.