Global History

Summary of the Global History course taught in the first year and first semester of the BA International Studies at Leiden University. It contains an extensive summary of lectures 1 to 11, 12 is an overview of the course material and is also included.

What world order is, how it is related to power, communist world order and its failure, liberal order, alternative world orders, the return of history, multipolarity and unipolarity and different types of order, CCP

Important revolutions in history, the unravelling of the American Web. Che Guevara's and Mao's revolutions explained

What and how information works and how it affected Africa in post-decolonization times

Explanation of the theory of the End of History, an overview of civilization and empires and the clash of civilization theory

Definition of nationalism and on what it is based

Explanation of the Great Divergence by different scholars, such as Diamond, Ferguson etc, plus an overview of the historical backround

How the cosmopolitan web developed and the concept of modernity

Information about religions and their role