Modern World History

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Identify the modern interstate politics and philosophies; Identify a series of events before, during, and after the First and Second World War; Explain the international relations during and after the First and Second World War; Analyze the contemporary international relations particularly the Cold War and post Cold War era

Topics

1. Introduction to modern world history
2. The Medieval Ages of Europe
3. The beginning of the Modern Ages: The Renaissance era
4. Inventing the modern world economy
5. Conceptualizing the state’s sovereignty
6. The 17th century’s politics and economy
7. The Enlightenment politics
8. World order: anarchy, contract and order
9. The road to the First World War
10. After the WW I: How it ended
11. The Twenty Years Crisis: International Relations during 1919-1939
12. On the Brink of the Second World War
13. The Battlefront: The Second World War
14. Picking of the Pieces: The World Post WW II
15. The Age of the Cold War
16. Into the Whirlwind: Cold War Heightened
17. Détente of the 1970-1990
18. Conflict in the Middle East
19. Discussion forum
20. The End of the Cold War
21. Movie screening
22. The Changing World Order: Politics and Socio-Economic
23. The World in the 21st Century