Transatlantic Relations

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

General characterization

Code

722071097

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Daniel da Silva Costa Marcos

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

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.

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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

Available soon

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