CAS IR 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Far-Left Politics, Russian Civil War, Supercharge
31 Jan 2018
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Cold war; superpower had nuclear weapons and so they could actually destroyed each other. There were several hot wars within the cold war. There were sphere of influence of superpowers. Cold war; but not cold war orthodoxy- the global cold war. Cold war as an asymmetrical international system characterized by east west and. The cold war and its conceptualizations necessary to understand ir. 1986-1991: towards unipolarity (this was when the us won) Westad the cold war and the international history of the twentieth century vol1. Heterogeneous understanding of the cold war within the wider of the 20th century. Cold war first used by george orwell. Cw= confrontational politics of soviet leader stalin. In 1970s ir"s realist school explained cw as superpower"s interest-driven characterized by balance of power. Political and economics : capitalism, war and the making of the modern state/ state-building and spheres of influence. Science and technology : nuclear weapons, space, communications, medicine, and modernity.
