Class Contemporary Political History

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

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- The End of the Old Regime, the formulation of the functions of the State; - Nationalisms; - Liberalism and social, political, and cultural revolutions; - The Industrial Revolution, labor, and demographic changes; - The Ages of the Great Wars; - The advent of totalitarianism; - Multilateralism, democratization, and independence; - The world of the Cold War; - The end of the USSR, European integration, and US hegemony; - The advent of populism, religious fundamentalism, and Islamic terrorism.

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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.