Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This lecture course focuses on how World War II and the Cold War shaped domestic political, socioeconomic and cultural developments in the U.S. It addresses the question in what ways the “politics of empire,” associated with the rise of the United States to the role of global hegemon, created a distinctive domestic Cold War political culture and social order. In the course of the semester we will look at, among other things, the Red Scare, the Civil Rights movement, the rise of the military-industrial complex, the domestic repercussions of the Vietnam War, and the rise of the New Christian Right. We will also engage with the question how the end of the Cold War wrought fundamental changes in U.S. society, and in what ways the recent “new Cold War” is likely to transform U.S. politics and society.
