The Global Cold War. ((3 Credits))

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Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing Examines the Cold War using global and interdisciplinary lenses. Explores key topics and questions about the global Cold War from multiple perspectives using sources from Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia alongside the U.S.S.R. and U.S. Discusses geopolitics as ideologies, interventions, decolonization, and revolution alongside themes such as resistance, gender, peace, militarism and imperialism, diplomacy, and soft power. Concludes by looking at how historical legacies of the Cold War shape today’s world.