Contact Information:
Tel: 700 5664
Room: Q128
E-Mail: gary.murphy@dcu.ie

Course Description
Reading List
Research Resources

Course Description
The aim of this module is to provide students with an introduction to the basic ideas, forces and movements which have shaped the development of Europe in the Industrial Age. It will give an overview of the interaction of ideology and action in national and international affairs in Europe. Students should acquire a basic grasp of the key forces and events which have moulded contemporary Europe. They will gain an appreciation of how ideology has influenced political and social affairs and interstate relations in Europe.

The course will explore the following themes:
• Ideology and politics in Europe in the C19th and C20th
• Economic, social and political forces shaping European development from the late C19th
• European political crises and their resolution the shifts in the balance of power in world politics between 1914 and 1945 and their relationship to the two World Wars
• the developments of democracy and fascism in the inter-war period, the rise of Hitler, why the Superpowers played a marginal role during the inter-war period
• The emergence of European economic and social integration as an organising doctrine for interstate co-operation

Reading List:
• Weigall, David, and P. Stirk,  An introduction to political ideas (New York: Pinter, 1995)
• Stirk, P., A history of European integration since 1914 (New York: Pinter, 1996)
• Nye, Joseph, Understanding international conflicts : an introduction to theory and history (New York, 2000)
• Bartlett, C.J., The Global Conflict: The International Rivalry of the Great Powers 1880-1990 (New York, 1994)
• Calvocoressi, Peter, Resilient Europe: A Study of the Years 1870-2000 (New York, 1991)
• Gilbert, Felix, & David.C. Large, The End of the European Era, 1890 to the present (4th ed., New York, 1991)
• Hobsbawm, Eric, Age of Extremes: the short twentieth century 1914-1991 (London, 1994)
• Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (London , 1988)

Research Resources:
• Avalon Project - Yale Law School : League of Nations- A small archive of documents, including the Covenant. The site is part of a larger archive that includes major documents pre 18t^h Century onwards. The 'Versailles to Nato' section is also relevant here.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Russian Revolution- Includes texts in full of many books, statements, plus some articles and links to other archives. Developed by Dr. Paul Halsall of Florida University.
• Nazi Propaganda Guide Page - Calvin College USA- Site offers an archive of speeches, etc., from pre-1933 to 1945
• Nazi Germany- General background notes on the rise of Nazism in Germany.
• US Department of State Foreign Relations of the US (FRUS) - Office of the Historian The site offers the texts of FRUS volumes - covering all the historical moments of US diplomacy.
• Simon Wiesenthal Centre - Museum of Tolerance: World War II- Huge archive of documents, as well as photos and maps.
• The World at War - History of World War II- The site includes a detailed examination of the war with the use of maps, documents and articles - includes links.
• Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars - Cold War International History Project- A new site (some sections still under construction) that offers a number of articles.
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
• US News online - Cold War Resources- Archive of news coverage during the Cold War.
• Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Diplomacy- Search facility, plus a selection of document collections and articles, as well as links to relevant databases.
• Internet Modern History Source book: Full Text Sources- Developed by Dr. Paul Halsall of Florida University, this is a great research resource that includes the full texts of books and documents from the Reformation to contemporary times.
• Virtual Library History Index- A site with extremely useful links to topics of historical discussion. It also contains some very useful country specific information, has links to research methods and materials, including archival finding aids, map use for historians and links to historical journals. An essential site for any diplomatic historian.
• US Diplomatic Resources Index- If you want an outstanding guide to American foreign policy in the twentieth century, this is the site for you. It contains links to a whole host of other sites including the White House, the CIA, the Department of Defence, Foreign Relations of the United States and includes an indispensable list of historical documents. It also contains links to the various Presidential libraries which are very useful. It is beginning to include an increasing amount of material that is not strictly American. It has very good links to official web sites of a variety of countries. It also includes some very useful conference material which is right up to date.
• Oxford Analytica International Affairs site. Website from OA an academic based consultency and political and economic analysis news-briefing organisation. Thousands of links, reasonably well structured.
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources. Excellent and well structured links
• A virtual library to www links on international relations and security maintained by Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, ETH Zurich, with a very wide range of links to global and not just US/European organisations
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs - good links especially for North America
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• Centre for Strategic and International Studies
• Dept. of International Politics Aberystwyth, good links
• US Library of Congress
• US National Archives
• Aberystwyth -International Politics
• American Foreign Policy hub (excellent international links both historical and contemporary)
• http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/sarantakes/stuff.html