Transatlantic Relations - 1st semester
Code
722071097
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Carlos Gaspar
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Establish the origins of the Western alliance
b) Analyse the institutional building of the Transatlantic security community
c) Review the crises of the Atlantic Alliance during the Cold War
d) Evaluate the impact of the end of the Cold War on the Western alliance
e) Review the Atlantic community post-Cold War crises
f) Study the evolving trends in EU-NATO relations
Prerequisites
Attending classes
Subject matter
a) Origins the Western Alliance
b) Formation of the Transatlantic security community
c) Crises of the Atlantic Alliance
d) The end of the Cold War and the post-bipolar transition
e) Post-Cold War crises of the transatlantic alliance
f) The Western alliance and the international transition
Bibliography
a) BELL, Coral - A world out of balance, Canberra, The Diplomat Longueville Books, 2004.
b) ASH, Timothy Garton – Free World, Nova York, Random House, 2004
c) TRACHTENBERG, Marc - A constructed peace. The making of the European settlement (1945-1963), Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999
d) GADDIS, John Lewis - We now know. Rethinking cold war history. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997.
Teaching method
The Course wil be taught by the presentation of the subjects by the teacher in the classroom. Students are required to present reference texts in class and to write an individual essay.
In class teaching
Evaluation method
Students are required to present an end term written essay with a minimum of 20 pages on one the UC themes