Readings Final

Question 1

5: 1929 - Crisis of Capitalism and Crisis of Democracy

Answer 1

Dark Continent, Europe’s 20th Century (Mazower, 2000)

First Inaugural Address (Roosevelt, 1933)

On National Socialism and World Relations (Hitler, 1937)

Question 2

6: Crisis and Collapse of the Modern Imperial Order

Answer 2

Final Communiqué of the African-Asian Conference of Bandung (1955)

African Unity and National Independence (Lumumba, 1959)

Decolonisation and the Cold War (Fraser, 2013)

Manging the World: the UN, decolonisation and the strange triumph of state sovereignty in the 1950s and 1960s (Muschik, 2018)

Question 3

7: BW and the Collapse of Embedded Liberalism

Answer 3

End of Convertibility of the Dollar (Nixon, 1971)

Declaration on the Establishment of a New Economic Order (UN GA, 1974)

The US and Globalisation of the 1970s (Sargent, 2010)

The World Economy and the Cold War (Arrighi, 2010)

Question 4

8: The Environment

Answer 4

The Silent Spring (Carson, 1962)

Something New under the Sun (McNeill, 2010)

Question 5

9: HR

Answer 5

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Final Act (1975)

Manifesto of Charter 77 (1977)

HR and History (Hoffmann, 2016)

Question 6

10: AIDS/HIV Epidemic

Answer 6

AIDS Pandemic in Historical Perspective (Kazanjan, 2014)

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC, 2001)

Question 7

11: The American Century and Its End

Answer 7

National Security Strategy of the US (2002, 2010, 2017)

The US-Chinese Power Shift and the End of the Pax Americana (Layne, 2018)

Question 8

12: The Asian Century?

Answer 8

There will not be a New Cold War; The Limits of US-Chinese Competition (Christensen, 2021)

Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of our Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1981)