Crises and Conflicts in World Politics

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The course examined key controversies and crises in the post-Cold War era, including the so-called New Cold War between Russia and the West (with particular attention paid to the 2014 Ukraine crisis); the road to and unraveling of the Iran nuclear deal; the “Thucydides Trap” debate (are the US and China fated to go to war?); the US and North Korea’s nuclear program.