Da centralidade europeia à bipolaridade: Teerã, Yalta e Potsdam como marco concreto para a mudança do eixo de poder global

Abstract

The author develops a line of research seeking to elucidate the facts that marked the transition from the current global power spindle at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, signed in a centrality which passes to a bipolar International System Configuration centered in the United States and the Soviet Union. Starts from a historical context that involves the two main global conflicts, First and Second World Wars, that greatly contributed to the weakening of Europe and the emergence of new forces on the world stage at the time. Does her main interventions regarding this change, through the analysis of three major Conferences, the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences. Seeks to assess the importance of these events as well as the role and performance of the leading statesmen who took part on them, in order to present their contribution to the new configuration of world power after World War II, which contributed to the complete redesign of international relations.