UNSW Handbook Course - The United States and Changing Global Orders

The United States and Changing Global Orders - HIST2510


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: GLST2103, SPAN2431
	Offered: Session Two
	Fee Band: 1

Description

Examines the role of the USA in the world in the context of the history of changing global orders. Drawing on diplomatic history, international history, international relations, international political economy, and social and cultural history, the main themes include: westward expansion, 'Manifest Destiny', theories of imperialism, US-Soviet rivalry, and debates about globalisation and the character and future of the contemporary global order centred on the USA.

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