Syllabus/achievement requirements MITRA4421 autumn 2019
Books:
Peter N. Stearns, Peace in World History. New York and London: Routledge, 2014, pp. 91-200. 110 pp.
Mazower, Mark. Governing the World. The History of an Idea. New York: Penguin Press, 2012. Particularly chapters 1-7: 213 pp.
Gerard J. de Groot, The First World War (Twentieth Century Wars) 2000th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0333745359
ISBN-10: 0333745353
E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. (New Edited Edition with Introduction by Michael Cox)
SBN-13: 978-0333963777
ISBN-10: 0333963776
Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War. A World History (2017)
Holger Nehring and Helge Pharo, ¡®Introduction: A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century,¡¯ Contemporary European History 17,3 (2008), pp. 277-299.
Lundestad, Geir, "The world's most prestigious prize": The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Articles:
Literature marked (€) will be available as PDF files.
€ Hobsbawm, Eric. "War and Peace in the 20th Century." London Review of Books 24 no. 4 (2002): 16-18 - Available in the Fronter room, under "Teaching material"
€ Ronald R. Krebs, ¡°The False Promise of the Nobel Peace Prize¡± (2009-10) 32 pp.
€ Geir Lundestad, ¡°The Nobel Peace Prize¡± (2001) 24 pp.
The students also have to study the biographies of at least ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates from different historical periods on the basis of:
Abrams, Irwin. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates. An Illustrated Biographical History 1901-2001. Nantucket, Mass: Science History Publications, 2001.
Stenersen, ?ivind, Lib?k, Ivar and Sveen, Asle. The Nobel Peace Prize. One Hundred Years for Peace. Oslo: Cappelen, 2001. - available at the Nobel Peace Center and the Nobel websites: www.nobelprize.org ¨C click peace or www.nobelpeaceprize.org . Stipulated to a total of 100 pp.