World History I

Course content

The course examines the rise and fall of great powers as political, military and economic entities, with reference to economic and political relations of large states like the Ottoman Empire, France, Great Britain, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Prussia as well as the two great powers, the United States and Russia, within the framework of European Balance of Power and the traditional isolationist foreign policy of the U.S. in the last century. The course includes an analysis of the World War I.