Courses

This course introduces students to the burgeoning literature on international ideas, relations, politics and movements between the wars, especially in Europe.  We will explore three questions in particular.  First, how has the current turn to international/global history altered our understanding of the key aspects of Europe’s ‘twenty-year crisis’ – especially post-World War I stabilization, the management of the slump, imperial contestation, and the challenge posed by revisionist states?  Second, what was the nature of the “Geneva project,” and what was its significance?  Finally, what other visions of internationalism and geopolitics emerged in the interwar era, and to what effect?  Can we now bring international history and European history together?

Students will be expected to do all common readings and participate in class discussion and to prepare discussion questions and help guide discussion twice during the term.  Written assignments will be structured to allow students to evaluate this new scholarship in light of their own research.