Преподавател(и):

проф. Румен Генов  д-р
доц. Светла Янева  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

After completing successfully this course the students will:

1) know:

•Major facts and trends in the historical development, implementation of respective models and effects of modernization in South-East Europe

•Formative influences of the different models of modernization in South-East Europe in economic and political terms

2) are capable of:

•Make comparative analysis of modernization in South-East Europe and in the contemporary world;

•Doing individual research in field of modernization in South-East Europe (in specific cases, and in global terms)

Предварителни изисквания:
•English language proficiency

•Background in Humanities or related field

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Theories and models of modernization
2. Relative backwardness of South-East Europe
3. The heritage of the attempts at modernization during the Ottoman period
4. Problems of modernizing of newly formed nations in SEE
5. The role of external factors in modernization in SEE in the 20th century
6. The processes of urbanization
7. Industrialization in Western and Soviet mode
8. Catching up modernization in SEE
9. Modernization and relative competitive-ness
10. Modernization and social transformation
11. Wars and modernization in SEE
12. Industrialization in Western and Soviet mode
13. Modernization process after World War II
14. Modernization problems at the beginning of the 21st century
15. Perspectives of modernization and globalization

Литература по темите:

•Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries. The Balkans: A Post-Communist History (Routledge; New edition, 2006)

•Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change (2007)

•Crampton, Richard J. Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - And After (1994)

•Crampton, Richard J. The Balkans Since the Second World War (The Postwar World) (2002)

•Gerolymatos, Andre. Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2004)

•Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962)

•Glenny, Misha. The Balkans: 1804 - 2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers (2012)

•Johnson, Paul Bede. Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)

•Kennedy, Paul M. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987)

•Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower (1999)

•Mazower, Mark. The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day (2002)

•Motyl, Alexander J. Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (New York)

•Stavrianos, Leften S. The Balkans Since 1453 (2000)

•Wachtel, Andrew. The Balkans in World History (New Oxford World History) (2008)