The course is an introduction to US foreign policy in the XX Century. After a brief historical introduction, we shall focus on the so-called First Globalization (1860-1914), Globalization Backlash (1914-1950), the Golden Age of Atlantic world (1950-1971) and the current Second Globalization. The last classes are devoted to financial crises, past and present. The focus is on the political and economic factors that lead to the integration (or disintegration) of the western international economy under the so called Pax Americana. Special emphasis will be placed on international economic relations and on the political economy of globalization.
M. Del Pero, Libertà e Impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo 1776-2011, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.
**Or**
G.C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower. US foreign Relations since 1776, Oxford UP, New York 2008.
**For not attending students one book chosen from the following list**
V. De Grazia, Irresistible Empire. America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe, 2005, Belknap Press, Cambridge 2005.
B. Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, Princeton UP, P rinceton, 1996.
D. W. Ellwood, Una sfida per la modernità. Europa e America nel lungo Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2012.
J. Frieden, Global capitalism. Its fall and rise in the 20th Century, Norton & co. New York 2006.
M. E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution. Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present, Cornell UP, Ithaca and London 2011.
F. Ninkovich, The Wilsonian Century. U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1999.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of international and world history since 1870 (at least at B.A. Level) is required