POLS701 The West Meets the East
Annotation:
The course to reveal what lies behind the geopolitical conflict between Russia/The Soviet Union and Western Europe and the United States. It will show how each of the two camps had been shaping the differences to the extent that in XXІ we can witness a rift whose motivation can be seen as political, cultural or historically cultivated.
Lecturers:
Asst. Prof. Ivan Nachev, PhD
Asst. Prof. Metodi Metodiev, PhD
Course Description:
Competencies:
Prerequisites:
Types:
Full-time Programmes
Types of Courses:
Lecture
Language of teaching:
English
Topics:
Bibliography:
Europe: A History. Oxford, 1991
Norman Davis, Europe A History, Oxford, 1996
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, 1994
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, London, 1991
Robert Service: Comrades: History of World Communism, 2007
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism, Oxford, 1999
Lary Wolff: Inventing Eastern Europe, Stanford, 1994
Masha Gessen, The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Riverhad, 2013
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, 2013