Certificate in the Study of State Violence (War, Atrocity, and Genocide) - Empire, Ideology, and Intervention: The Cold War in Global Perspective

HIST 2137  Empire, Ideology, and Intervention: The Cold War in Global Perspective

Prerequisites:

Six credits of History at 1000 level OR 24 credits completed.

Antirequisites:

HIST 2305

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

The Cold War wasn’t just a standoff between the U.S. and the USSR—it was a global system of power, ideology, and intervention. Students examine how this system evolved in Europe and the Global South, shaping decolonization, wars, and social movements from the ideological conflicts of the 1930s through the aftermath of the Cold War in the 1990s.