Syllabus/achievement requirements

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"

€ Roger P. Alford, ¡°The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs (2008) 91pp.

€ 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.

 

 

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