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Course: Diplomacy between the World Wars

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Course title Diplomacy between the World Wars
Course code UHV/DMSV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vydra Zbyněk, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Versailles Peace System: Formation and first crises (1918-1923). 2) Unstable Pillars of the New Order. World Politics in the second half of 1920's. 3) World Diplomacy and the Great Depression (1930-1933). 4) Soviet Foreign Policy between Realpolitik and the Revolutionary Rhetoric. 5) British and French Foreign Policy (1933-1936). 6) German and Italian Foreign Policy (1933-1936). 7) The Policy of Appeasement (1936-1938). 8) In the Shadow of Munich (1938-1939).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the development of international relations in the period of 1918-1939. The lectures will be focused on the interpretation of the relations between the world powers and the transformation of the international system in the context of these relationships. The main focus will be concentrate on the so-called Versailles system, its transformation, crisis and final breakdown.
Students will gain a clear understanding of the inter-war international relations and will be able to answer basic questions about world diplomacy.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Course will be ended with the written exam (necessary success fot the credit at least 60%).
Recommended literature
  • Boyce, R. (ed,). French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940. The Decline and Fall of a Great Power,. London, 1998.
  • ELLINGER, J. Neville Chamberlain: od usmiřování v válce: britská zahraniční politika 1937-1940. Praha, 2009.
  • Jindřich Dejmek. Nenaplněné naděje. Politické diplomatické vztahy Československa a Velké Británie od zrodu První republiky po konferenci v Mnichově (1918?1938). Praha, 2003.
  • JOHNSON, G. The foreign office and British diplomacy in the 20th century. London: Routledge, 2005.
  • KISSINGER, H. Umění diplomacie. Od Richelieua k pádu Berlínské zdi. 3. vyd., Praha: Prostor, 1999.
  • MACMILLANOVÁ, M. Pařížská mírová konference 1919.. Praha, 2004.
  • Schmidt, R. F. Die Aussenpolitik des Dritten Reiches 1933-1939. Stuttgart, 2003.
  • SCHULZINGER, R. D. U. S. Diplomacy since 1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • STEINER, Z. The lights that failed: European international history 1919-1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • STEINER, Z. The Triumph of the Dark. European International History 1933-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
University of Pardubice, date of update: 02.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2016/2017