Sumários

Decolonization Process

21 Outubro 2025, 11:00 Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves


Examine the end of colonial European empires, a chapter within the history of Imperialism. Discuss the dilemma of postwar empire: could an imperial regime adopt a more democratic form of governance, a more nuanced concept of sovereignty, and still remain imperial? Question how did European societies experience both decolonization processes and post-colonial realities? Analise how the USSR and the United States acted in relation both to western European states and to the spaces opened up by declining empires.

Decolonization Process

21 Outubro 2025, 09:30 Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves


Examine the end of colonial European empires, a chapter within the history of Imperialism. Discuss the dilemma of postwar empire: could an imperial regime adopt a more democratic form of governance, a more nuanced concept of sovereignty, and still remain imperial? Question how did European societies experience both decolonization processes and post-colonial realities? Analise how the USSR and the United States acted in relation both to western European states and to the spaces opened up by declining empires.

Reforming the Empire

14 Outubro 2025, 11:00 Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves


From the struggles for independence in Southeast Asia in the late 1940s to Portuguese decolonization in the mid-1970s: global resistance against European imperial rule. Was the end of Europeans empires an inevitability? Was it just nationalist opposition to imperialism? How did European Elites and governments conceive of their Empires? How did colonial subjects and anticolonial movements adjusted to the end of the IIWW and the beginning of Cold War?

Reforming the Empire?

14 Outubro 2025, 09:30 Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves


From the struggles for independence in Southeast Asia in the late 1940s to Portuguese decolonization in the mid-1970s: global resistance against European imperial rule. Was the end of Europeans empires an inevitability? Was it just nationalist opposition to imperialism? How did European Elites and governments conceive of their Empires? How did colonial subjects and anticolonial movements adjusted to the end of the IIWW and the beginning of Cold War?

A Divided Europe

7 Outubro 2025, 11:00 Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves


The formation of a new type of confrontation in Europe: between Communism and capitalism; between the USA and the URSS. The status of Communism in Western Europe. The Sovietization of Eastern Europe. The Question of Germany. Bipolarization of multilateral defence alliances. Cold War and the reconstruction of Europe.