Visions of World Order: From the French Revolution to the Present
HIST 266
Fall 2023
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This course offers a survey of how social scientists, philosophers, and statesmen have understood and imagined global order from the late 18th century until the present. The course first examines interpretations of global order that emerged during the late 18th and 19th centuries: Cosmopolitanism (Immanuel Kant), Positivism (August Comte, Saint Simon), Nationalism (Giuseppe Mazzini), and Marxism. The course then turns to the first half of the 20th century by examining the international thought of W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gandhi, while also discussing fascist and liberal internationalist views of world order that emerged after World War I. The third part of the course discusses visions of Cold War order connected to American modernization theory (W.W. Rostow), neoliberalism (Friedrich Hayek), post-colonialism (Franz Fanon), Third Worldism, Neoconservatism (Jeane Kirkpatrick), and Systems Theory. The course concludes with the Post-Cold War period and how it has been imagined by such thinkers as Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington along with a discussion of such topics as the global turn to nationalism, the Green New Deal, and the "New Cold War with China." |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (HIST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Adom Getachew, WORLDMAKING AFTER THE EMPIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF SELF-DETERMINIATION (University of Chicago Press) THE DEVELOPMENT READER edited by Sharad Chari and Stuart Corbridge (Routledge) Nils Gilman, MANDARINS OF THE FUTURE (University of California Press) Immanuel Wallerstein, WORLD'S SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; AN INTRODUCTION (Duke University Press) THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN ( Free Press) Samuel Huntington, CLASH OF THE CIVIILIZATIONS (Simon & Schuster) Quinn Slobodian, GLOBALISTS (Harvard University Press) Adam Tooze, SHUTDOWN (Viking) Naomi Klein, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM Lenin, ESSENTIAL WORKERS OF LENIN: "WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" and Other Writings (Dover Publications) Immanuel Kant, Kant: POLITICAL WRITINGS: CAMBRIDGE TEXT IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (Cambridge University Press) The Oxford W.E.B. DUBOIS READER edited by Eric J. Sundquist (Oxford University Press) Mark Mazower, G GOVERNING THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA (Penguin Press)
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| Instructor(s): Steinmetz-Jenkins,Daniel Times: ....R.. 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: FISK302; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 1 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: 4 |
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