Brave New World: Globilization since 1945

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The phenomenon of globilisation is vital to our understanding of the world since the end of the Second World War, and particularly since the 1970s. In this course we will look at the processes that made the world a more integrated and interdependent place in the second half of the twentieth century. Beginning with the United Nations and ending with the the anti-globilisation movement and the 'Battle of Seattle' in the late 1990s, we will examine the actors and issues that were key to that process, and ask: how has globilisation come to shape our contemporary world?