66647 - Diplomacy, war and peace in the 20th century
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1.4. Activities and key dates
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5.1. Methodological overview
See "Learning activities" and "Syllabus".
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5.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
Topic 1. States, nations, social movements. State practice and the nation at the upsurge of mass society.
Topic 2. Liberalism: validity and crisis of a nineteenth-century model. The Western particularity.
Topic 3. Models for mass politics: Russian revolution, the Soviet state construction and the Third International.
Topic 4. Models for mass politics: Fascism as a movement. Ideological bases and political practice. Italy, Germany.
Topic 5. Stalinism. The political practice of the USSR and its East European expansion.
Topic 6. Fascism: Diversification, expansion, the shaping of empires and wars.
Topic 7. Political regimes of the Cold War. The Western democratic model after 1945. Participation, pluralism and the welfare state. Its non-democratic allies.
Topic 8. Political regimes of the Cold War. The Soviet model; from dependence to de-stalinization. China. The communist model in the Third World.
Topic 9. The mechanisms of global or regional political integration: towards the dissolution of the state or the reaffirmation of the nation?. The emergence of supranational mechanisms after 1945: UN, European Union, international organizations ...
Topic 10. The limits of participation in the post-Cold War democracy: the democracy as show-business; strong-man-democracy; formalized democracy. The goal of enhancing real democracy and good governance.
5.4. Course planning and calendar
See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)
More information will be provided on the first day of class