Class Contemporary Political History

The course offers an overview of contemporary politics and International Relations, focusing on the processes of political change since 1900. The course also includes an introduction to different types of theoretical and methodological tools in comparative political history.

1-The first wave of democratization

2-Crises of democracy and the Era of Fascism

3-The Second wave of democratization and the Cold War

4- Socialist Dictatorships and their political institutions

5-The third wave of democratization

6- Democracy and competitive authoritarianism in the contemporary world

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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Natasha Lindstaedt, and Erica Frantz, Democracies and Authoritarian regimes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Collier, Ruth (2000), Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, New York, Cambridge University Press.

Judt, Tony, Postwar. A history of Europe after 1945, London, Penguin (Port. Editon)

MAHONEY, James; RUESCHEMEYER, Dietrich (Ed.). Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Meng, Anne (2020), Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes, New York, Cambridge University Press.

Pinto, Antonio Costa Pinto (2018), ed., Corporatism and fascism. The corporatist wave in Europe, London, Routledge.

Weyland, Kurt, Assault on Democracy. Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2021.