Conspiracy на Histories of secrecy between diplomacy and espionage: surveillance, conspiracy and information

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент истории

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Егоров Евгений Витальевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This MA course delves into the intricate intersection of diplomacy and espionage, exploring the nuanced histories of secrecy. Focused on diverse forms of surveillance, the curriculum navigates the blurred boundaries between diplomatic practices and covert intelligence operations. Investigating themes of conspiracy and information manipulation, the course offers a comprehensive understanding of how secrecy has shaped historical narratives and continues to influence contemporary global dynamics.

Learning Objectives

• Being capable of navigating the historiography on surveillance and espionage
• Able to articulate analytical perspectives on the interactions between diplomacy, knowledge production, and information gathering

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Student articulates the relations between diplomacy and intelligence
• Student traces the origins of diplomatic communications, intelligence gathering and surveillance institutions
• Student recognizes the relations between literature, conspiracy, and secrecy
• Student articulates the connection between imperial rule and information-gathering
• Student explains the history of particular imagination surrounding secrecy and diplomacy
• Student navigates diplomatic forms of knowledge as well as intricacies of information-production
• Student articulates modern debates about the future of IR and diplomacy

Course Contents

• The delicate relations between diplomacy and intelligence
• Conspiracies, secrecies, and their origins
• Decoding a conspiracy: investigation and surveillance
• Empire and surveillance
• Aesthetics and images of diplomacy and espionage
• Forms of knowledge in diplomacy and espionage
• Radical thoughts for brighter future: peace, state and promises of diplomacy

Assessment Elements

• Seminar work
• Presentation
• Essay

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.5 * Essay + 0.2 * Presentation + 0.3 * Seminar work

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 9781351164238 - Cynthia Scott - Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire : Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns - 2020 - Routledge - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2299963 - nlebk - 2299963
• Black, J. (2010). A History of Diplomacy. London: Reaktion Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=342741
• Boundary spanners of humanity : three logics of communications and public diplomacy for global collaboration, Zaharna, R. S., 2022
• Brayne, S. (2017). Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing. American Sociological Review, 82(5), 977–1008. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417725865
• Conan, D. A. A Question of Diplomacy / D. A. Conan. — Санкт-Петербург : Лань, 2013. — 14 с. — ISBN 978-5-507-32858-1. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/39938 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
• Conservative internationalism : armed diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan, Nau, H. R., 2013
• Corporate diplomacy : the strategy for a volatile, fragmented business environment, Steger, U., 2003
• Cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations. Vol. 1:, , 2020
• Deibert, R. (2013). Black Code : Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet. Toronto: Signal. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=743006
• Industrial espionage : developing a counterespionage program, Benny, D. J., 2014
• Rose, M. V. aut. (2017). A new cultural diplomacy : the integration of cultural relations and diplomacy / Martin Rose. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.491786824
• Shoshana Zuboff. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism : The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Vol. First edition. PublicAffairs.
• Spies, Inc. : business innovation from Israel's masters of espionage, Perman, S., 2005
• Svenonius, O., & Björklund, F. (2013). Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=512326

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• American diplomacy in the twentieth century, Schulzinger, R.D., 1994
• Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome : the rise of the resident ambassador, Fletcher, C., 2015
• The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century, , 2010

Authors

• LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA
• Egorov Evgenii Vitalevich