At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
A brief survey of the fore-runners of the contemporary international system. Answers to the problem of co-existence, order and peace; focus on previous examples of arrangements for organizing relations between diverse peoples from which the modern system sprang. The Chou system; the Greek City States; the Egyptian; Assyrian, Persian world, Renaissance Italy. The collapse of the ancient and medieval political systems of Europe, Asia, and Africa and the rise of different political entities. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648; and the end of
the 30-year war between catholic states and protestant states in western and central Europe. The congress in Vienna in 1815. The establishment of the modern international system.