MODERN WORLD HISTORY (4 Credits)
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Identify debates on the origins of the modern interstate system; Describe the causes and consequences of the First and Second World War; Analyze the political and economic dynamics that characterize the Cold War era; Analyze the political and economic dynamics that characterize the post Cold War world order.
Topics:
- Why History Matters?;
- The Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe;
- The emergence of the Modern Interstate System;
- The Road to the First World War;
- After the War: How it ended;
- The Great Depression;
- The Twenty-Year Crisis;
- On the Brink of the Second World War;
- The Battlefront: The Second World War;
- Picking Up the Pieces;
- The Rise of the Bretton Woods Institutions;
- The Age of the Cold War;
- The Cold War Heightened;
- Cuban Missile Crisis;
- Détente of the 1970-1990;
- The Second Cold War;
- Decolonization and Development;
- The Birth and Rise of the People’s Republic of China;
- The End of the Cold War;
- The Post-Cold War World Order;
- Challenges to US Hegemony.
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