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This module examines the origins, causes and outcomes of different types of conflicts, ranging from modern interstate war to ethnic intrastate conflicts. Various dynamics of conflict initiation, intensity, duration, and the potential for resolution constitute the main focus of the study. Though the military aspects of certain conflicts are discussed in terms of impact and outcome, this course does not concentrate on battles and warfare per se. Instead, the political, economic, and ideological background to, influence on, and consequences of, selected conflicts are examined, particularly those pertaining to international and global conflicts. Other matters of interest will concentrate around the success and failure of collective security, revolutionary and civil wars, the role of nationalism, regional disputes, and attempts at “humanitarian” intervention in the post-Cold War period. The empirical material includes historical, political, organisational, and economic grounds as well as the narratives of the parties involved analysed through the lens of conflict theory. While the main emphasis is on international conflicts of the XX century, comparative reference will be made to both earlier conflicts and those that have occurred in the beginning of the XXI century. |
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International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, edited by Antony Best, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Joseph A. Maiolo, and Kirsten E. Schulze. Second Edition (London and New York: Routledge, a Taylor & Francis Group, 2008). ISBN 978-0-415-43896-4.
Additional Indicative Reading List
- Geller, Daniel S. and J. David Singer. Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International Conflict (1998)
- Kaldor, Mary, New and old wars. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2006, 2nd ed.
- Kalyvas, S. N., Shapiro, I., & Masoud, T. E., eds., Order, conflict, and violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- Kennedy, David, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism (Princeton University Press, 2004).
- Pons, Silvio and Federico Romero, eds., Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations (2005)
- Schroeder, Paul W. Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern Europe. David Wetzel, Robert Jervis, and Jack S. Levy, eds. (2004)
- Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” in Bringing the State Back, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
- The Law of Armed Conflict, International Humanitarian Law in War, by Gary D. Solis (Cambridge University Press; 1st ed., 2010).
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