This course uses a historical lens to consider international security problems — and solutions — in Europe since the end of the Second World War. Students will examine the national, bilateral, and multilateral security institutions that developed on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the fate of these institutions after the end of the Cold War. (For instance: The Brussels Pact, WEU, NATO, Warsaw Treaty Organization, CSCE/OSCE, etc.) It will include consideration of how European countries adjusted their diplomatic, defence, and other security policies in the wake of the collapse of European empires abroad, and in the shadow of both the United States and the Soviet Union. Students will be encouraged to consider the various political, social, economic, and other sources of thinking about security in Europe from the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The course will serve as a useful foundation for students interested in an MRP related to European diplomacy, defence, or security issues.