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:

1. Why History Matters?;
2. The Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe;
3. The emergence of the Modern Interstate System;
4. The Road to the First World War;
5. After the War: How it ended;
6. The Great Depression;
7. The Twenty-Year Crisis;
8. On the Brink of the Second World War;
9. The Battlefront: The Second World War;
10. Picking Up the Pieces;
11. The Rise of the Bretton Woods Institutions;
12. The Age of the Cold War;
13. The Cold War Heightened;
14. Cuban Missile Crisis;
15. Détente of the 1970-1990;
16. The Second Cold War;
17. Decolonization and Development;
18. The Birth and Rise of the People’s Republic of China;
19. The End of the Cold War;
20. The Post-Cold War World Order;
21. Challenges to US Hegemony.