Aims

Impart insight into international relations by confronting students with important historic events in the domain. The emphasis is therefore not on only the reproduction of historic facts and events, but also on insight and the present-day relevance of events.

Previous knowledge

A significant interest in international politics is required, which
includes the pursuit of insight and the willingness to develop
elaborate knowledge of the discipline.

Content

The course aims to provide a historical and political analysis of the period between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the development of the "Great Three (Soviet Union, United Kingdom and the United Nations) in their battle against Nazi-Germany and Japan. The course will discuss the Congres of Vienna, the related agreements and Pentarchy, the erosion of the Congress caused by liberalism and nationalism, the Crimean War and the degeneration of the Ottoman Empire, the global competition battle between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire, the Italian and German unification, the Bismarckian alliance systems, imperialism and the policy of the Ententes, the five crises (including the two Balkan wars) in the period leading up the first World War, the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Treates of Paris (including the Treate of Versailles), instability and the rise of autocratic regimes during the interbellum, the last traces of détente (Locarno), Japanese and Italian imperialism, the rise of Hitler and the three pillars of his foreign policy (the occupied Rhineland, the Anschluss, Sudetenland, the Munich Conference, the annexation of the remainder of Czechia, the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the second World War), the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and eventually the rise of the "Great Three".
The accent of this course is on the period between the Congress of Vienna and the end of negotiations in Paris in 1919. For this period, the emphasis is not only on a description of the events, but also on explanation.

Course material

Syllabus
Toledo / e-platform

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