SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:
EUROPE FROM WAR TO UNION
Co-listed with INTL 4388 

HIST 5392-002C
Tue 2PM-4:50—357 Dallas Hall
Prof. Daniel Orlovsky—352 Dallas Hall—214-768-3746   dorlovsk@smu.edu
 

International Relations in Europe from the origins of World War II through the Cold War, the creation of a common market, the collapse of communism, and the forging of a new Europe. Emphasizes the European Union and the realities and potential of unity in Europe.

Readings include: 1) John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History; 2) Michelle Cini, European Union Politics; 3) Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down; 4) Andrew Moravcsik, Choice for Europe; 5) Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia; 6) Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Phenomenon; 7) Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand; 8) Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945; 9) Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution; 10) also, intensive reading of The Financial Times and The Economist.