"European Perspectives of the US in the mid-Nineteenth Century" with Czech Fulbright scholar Miroslav Šedivý
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 5-6:30 p.m. in Purnell Hall 116
In the mid-nineteenth century, Europe's trust in the post-Napoleonic international order significantly diminished. In particular, political elites intensively debated the stability of international law, security, justice and peace. In view of European overseas expansion, America's aggressive aims in the Mexican-American War, and the increasing diminution of the globe through technological progress, the US assumed prominent positive and negative roles in these geopolitical debates about the future world order. These perspectives of America shaped both peace and nationalist movements in the 1840s, a prominent political impulse that current models of international relations fail to consider.
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European Perspectives of the US in the mid-Nineteenth Century with Czech Fulbright scholar Miroslav Šedivý
3/21/2022
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