History of International Relations (000761)

This is a compilation of past-year exam questions of HIR and their answers by me.

World citizenship and critical thinking are two key objectives of our university and also prioritized in this course. This course is an exploration through three thousand years of world politics. It is an ambitious venture, no doubt, but there is no shortcut. If theory brings you instantly to abstract suppositions, history allows you to discover its context, to retrieve the origins of these broad ideas, and to judge them more critically on their merits. History is also what allows future leaders...

The summary covers a summary of the book "Political History - 3000 years of War and Peace" by Jonathan Holslag. It covers explicitly the area of Europe.

The summary covers all important information, mentioned in the book about China

This summary is an exploration through three thousand years of world politics. The history allows you to discover its context, to retrieve the origins of these broad ideas, and to judge them more critically on their merits. History is also what allows future leaders to be versatile, to understand what shaped the interests of countries, their sensitivities, and the origins of important diplomatic principles. History matters This summary was made with the book and slides

Full summary of all classes + book

This one is a bit different than the others. This is chapter 13 of the book 'a political history of the world' by Jonathan Holslag. As there is no clear seperation between the different political areas, it is not in the scheme as previous schematizations. Be careful, a lot of more general knowledge, e.g. dates of World Wars etc. are being left out as i assumed this is general knowledge. If you miss something, just check the book althought this is a quite broad overview of everything.