Module Identifier | IP10610 | ||
Module Title | INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 2:NIXON-NEW WORLD ORDER 1968-PRESENT | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Susan Carruthers | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Mutually Exclusive | GW10610 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 21 Hours (21 x 1 hour) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 5 Hours (5 x 1 hour) | ||
Assessment | Essay | 1 x 1,500 word essay. | 30% |
Exam | 2 Hours | 70% |
- understand the changing character of US foreign policy from the period of containment to the era of the new world order.
- explain the transformation of Soviet foreign policy from the seventies to the collapse of the USSR in the early nineties.
- evaluate the different theories of the end of the Cold War
- have an awareness of issues in Third World development
- understand the impact of the end of the Cold War upon the international order
- explain the rise of the Asia-Pacific region
- be able to discuss the changing nature of 'security' in the post-cold war era.