Description
This course aims to survey world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a specifically international perspective - looking at war, diplomacy
and cooperation between states. The course examines the origins and results of all major conflicts that have helped shape the international scene during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be given to the rise of the great power and later the superpowers and large-scale conflicts like the Franco-Prussian war, the World Wars and the Cold War. The various efforts at international co-operation such as the Concert of Europe, the League of Nations, the United Nations, the European Union and NATO will also be studied.