The global 1980s

The 1980s witnessed enormous change across the globe. Neoliberalism reshaped international capitalism and socialism, dictatorships fell, the Cold War ended, environmental issues began to be taken seriously, and globalisation helped the world become more interconnected than ever. This course examines the key characteristics of the global 1980s, assessing who the leading figures were and what their role was in forming this new world, and it considers how people lived as the threat of nuclear war lifted but the threat of ecological catastrophe deepened.