Universität Wien

070228 PS BA-Proseminar - Technology and the Cold War (2021S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
DIGITAL

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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

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Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

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  • Donnerstag 15.04. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 22.04. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 29.04. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 06.05. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 20.05. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 27.05. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 10.06. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 17.06. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Donnerstag 24.06. 09:00 - 11:30 Digital

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

One of the most characteristic features of today's world is an overwhelming time-space compression. This is mainly caused by shrinking the globe by fast air transportation, 24/7 news stream and internet. For example, while it took months, if not years, for the sailing ships to reach their desired destinations across the globe and return with a load of exotic goods and the latest news, modern jet powered aircraft do the same within hours. Yet, somewhat lesser known fact is that much of these technological advances were brought by the confrontation between the West and the East during the Cold War. Laying at the intersection of variety of historical disciplines (history of technology as well as political, military, economic, business, international and global history), this Proseminar serves as a basic orientation to the issue at hand and associated developments. Using the published sources and secondary literature, this and associated.

Goal of the Prosminar is to make the students familiar with the latest secondary literature and published sources, strengthen their capabilities of conducting independent research as well as fostering their presentation and writing skills.

BA Proseminar Technology and the Cold War, Dr. Peter Svik, peter.svik@univie.ac.at, 2021S
Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien

Possible themes
1. Cold War and globalisation
2. East-West trade and its restrictions
3. The role of international organisations: Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), NATO, Committee for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)
4. Technology transfers and East-West infrastructural integration
5. The role of military funding in paving technology advances
6. Development of radars, satellites
7. Development of transistors, microcircuits, chips
8. Development of computers
9. Satellites and GPS
10. Technology espionage and illicit purchases
11. Spillover between the production of military and civilian aircraft
12. Evolution of turbojet and turbofan engines
13. East-West trade with oil and natural gas
14. 1973 oil shock and Soviet and Cuban expansion in Africa
15. Soviet military build-up in 1970s/80s and petrochemical industry
16. Case study: Democratic Republic of Congo
17. Rare earth elements and the rise of China
18. Club of Rome, 1972 reports on the Limits to Growth and rise of environmental movements
"Greening" of socialist economies and societies

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

consists of following components: active participation at the classes (20%), 1-2 pp. outline of seminar paper, (10%), 20 mins oral presentation (20%), 3-5 mins oral commentary (10%), seminar paper up to 15-20 pp. (40%)

Presentations and papers can be delivered both in German and English.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Autio-Sarasmo, Sari and Katalin Miklóssy. ‘Introduction: The Cold War from a new perspective.’ In Reassessing Cold War Europe, edited by Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy, 1-15. London New York: Routledge.
Barney, Timothy. Mapping the Cold War. Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Cain, Frank. Economic Statecraft during the Cold War. London-New York: Routledge, 2007.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge London: Blackwell, 1990.
Högselius, Per, Arnje Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten, Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Basingstoke New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Engineering. Finding Common Ground: U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment. Washington: National Academy Press, 1991.
Jackson, Ian. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain and East-West Trade, 1948-63. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Kotkin, Stephen. ‘The Kiss of Debt: The East Bloc Goes Borrowing.’ In The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargen, 80-93. London Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Libbey, James K. ‘CoCom, Comecon, and the Economic Cold War.’ Russian History 37, no. 2 (2010): 133-52.
Mazov, Sergey. A Distant Front in the Cold War. The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Mëhilli, Elidor. ‘Technology and the Cold War.’ In The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Artemy M. Kalinovski and Craig Daigle, 292-304. London New York: Routledge, 2014.
Office of Technology Assessment. Technology and East-West Trade. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1979.
Perovic, Jeronim. ‘The Soviet Union’s Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History.’ In Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas, edited by Jeronim Perovic, 1-43. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Rankin, William. After the Map. Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. Chicago London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Richelson, Jeffrey T. A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Romero, Frederico. ‘Cold War historiography at the crossroads.’ Cold War History 14, no. 4 (2014): 685-703.
Schot, Johan and Philip Scranton. ‘Making Europe: An introduction to the Series.’ In Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten, Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (Basingstoke New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), xi-xvii.
Van Vleck, Jeniffer. Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy. Cambridge London: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Yermakov, Vitaly, James Henderson and Bassam Fattouh, ‘Russia’s Heavy Fuel Oil Exports: Challenges and Changing Rules Abroad and at Home.’ The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Paper: WPM 80, April 2019, https://doi.org/10.26889/9781784671358.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA Geschichte (2012): Zeitgeschichte (5 ECTS)
BA Geschichte (2019): M6 (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: Osteuropäische Geschichte; Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Globalgeschichte

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:14