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The Cold War in Africa - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2020/21
Einrichtung	Historisches Institut	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	19.10.2020 - 30.11.2020 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	03.11.2020 bis 09.02.2021	Online.Veranstaltung	Prof. Dr. Schenck	22.12.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 29.12.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. This online graduate seminar engages with the interaction between African decolonization and global superpower rivalries, from the late 1950s until the end of the Cold War. It does so by interweaving the international, national and local spheres. Decolonization in the late 1950s and 1960s and the development of African independent nation-states interacted with the unfolding of the Cold War, on both a global and a local stage. In a global arena determined by the Cold War, African politicians needed to position themselves with reference to the geopolitical historical moment. Many African political actors sought to remain neutral and ‘non-aligned’, but others deliberately portrayed local conflicts in Cold War terms to sway the United States or Soviet Union and their allies to interfere. In this seminar, students will explore the extent to which African states and political movements were the subject of manipulation by the superpowers. They will analyze the motivations underlying the policies of the United States and the Soviet Union (and their respective allies) in Africa, also with respect to decolonization. Moreover, students will come to critically examine Odd Arne Westad’s ground-breaking approach, emphasizing the agency of non-western actors in shaping the form and extent of superpower intervention (or the lack of it) in African contexts and conflicts. The course includes a range of sources to assess what we know – and the many things we still don’t know – about Africa’s Cold War.
Literatur	• O.A. Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Makings of Our Times (2005) • C. Saunders & S. Onslow, ‘The Cold War and Southern Africa, 1976-1990’, in M.P. Leffler & O.A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume Three (2009) • J. Suri, ‘The Cold War, Decolonization, and Global Social Awakenings: Historical Intersections’, Cold War History 6, 3 (2006), pp. 353-363 • E. Schmidt, ‘Africa’ in R.H. Immerman & P. Goedde (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (2013) • T. Bortelsmann, The Cold War and the Color Line American Race Relations in the Global Arena (2001). • R.E. Kanet, ‘The Superpower Quest for Empire: The Cold War and Soviet Support for ‘Wars of National Liberation’, Cold War History, 6 3 (2006), pp. 331-352.
Leistungsnachweis	12 LP Students are to engage with the class readings, deliver one input presentation and write one summary email, participate in class discussion, and write a final paper of 25 pages.

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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2020/21 , Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25

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