· Sources
of the US power after 1945; Sources of USSR power after 1945; the reasons of
decline of European powers (France and the UK); traditionalist, revisionist and
post-revisionist explanations of the outbreak of the Cold War; American ideas
on global economic and political governance around 1945; political implications
of the Marshall Plan; Dunkirk Treaty 1947; creation of the NATO 1948-1949;
Soviet territorial ambitions in Central Eastern Europe and their realisation
(sovietisation of Baltic States, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia); division of Germany 1945-1949.
· The
role of UN as an accelerator of decolonisation; the process of disruption of
the British empire; the process of disruption of the French Empire; termination
of Belgian and Portuguese colonial power; Bandung conference 1955 and origins
of nonaligned movement in the Cold War international politics.