Vorlesung: Reluctant Empire? U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th Century
Winter Term 2017/18
Lecture Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg
Reluctant Empire? U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th Century
Monday, 11-13 hrs., Hörsaal Historisches Seminar/Lecture Hall
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Syllabus/Selected Bibliography
Information Sheet: Registration for Exams
1st Lecture: 16 October 2017: Traditions, Approaches, Debates
2nd Lecture: 23 October 2017: The United States Emerges as an Imperialist Power
3rd Lecture: 30 October 2017: Wilsonian Internationalism, 1913-1920
4th Lecture: 6 November 2017:Economic Diplomacy and Political Isolationism, 1921-1938
5th Lecture: 13 November 2017: The U.S. and the Second World War
6th Lecture: 20 November 2017: The Origins of the Cold War
7th Lecture: 27 November 2017: Superpower Confrontation, 1950-1962
8th Lecture: 4 December 2017: The U.S., the Cold War, and the Third World
9th Lecture: 11 December 2017: The Vietnam War
10th Lecture: 18 December 2017: The Age of Détente
11th Lecture: 8 January 2018: Empire by Invitation? The U.S. and Western Europe
12th Lecture: 15 January 2018: The U.S. and the Middle East
13th Lecture: 22 January 2018: The End of the Cold War and the Search for a New World Order
14th Lecture: 29 January 2018: 9/11 and the “Global War on Terror”
15th Lecture: 5 February 2018: Exams