Geopolitics of the Cold War

This course will give you comprehensive understanding of all the key strategies, ideas and doctrines of the Cold War. What is perhaps even more important, the content of this course has become extremely relevant today, in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it affected relations between Russia and the West.

• BONUS 1: Access to my closed LinkedIn Master Mind group Geopolitics, Strategy, Career (see below)

• BONUS 2: PDF handouts with all slides for each part of the course

• BONUS 3: Practice quizzes to test your understanding of the material

• BONUS 4: Two new interactive videos to make sure you are progressing with the material

• BONUS 5: Video Lecture "What Drives Russia (26 min)

• BONUS 6: Video Lecture "Russia After the Cold War (27 min)

• BONUS 7: Video Lecture "New Geopolitics of Russia" (21 min)

The course is ideal for beginners and more advanced students alike. No prior university education is needed. It will give you confidence to speak about both the geopolitics of the Cold War AND how those ideas from 1945-1990 have become relevant again. Your understanding of the current conflict with Russia will become much more grounded in history and the study of geopolitics.

What You Will Learn in This Course

• What the Cold War was all about, who was involved, and why

• The most important geopolitical ideas, strategies and doctrines, which shaped the Cold War

• The Harry Truman Doctrine

• George Kennan his article The Sources of Soviet Conduct

• Andrei Zhdanov and his text Soviet Policy and World Politics

• Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev Doctrine

• The Committee on the Present Danger, which set the American Cold War agenda in the 1980s

• Mikhail Gorbachev and his New Political Thinking

• How some of these ideas remain relevant in the current geopolitical context

Closed LinkedIn Group

After you enrol, you will get a link to my closed, invite-only LinkedIn Master Mind group Geopolitics, Strategy, Career.

In this group, you can expect:

• Access to my podcasts and other expert content before I share it with anyone else

• My top reading recommendations

• Educational and career advise

• Exclusive Udemy discounts before I share them with my other Udemy students

• Ability to ask questions and engage in discussion

My Promise to You

I promise that the tuition in this course is of the highest quality, based on genuine university-level teaching and research. It is presented in a highly-accessible and engaging way, designed specifically for those who do not have prior university degree in Politics or International Relations.

I invite you to send me a message if you have any questions about the content of this course.