International History (HEC-AS-INTL-22)

HEC-AS-INTL-22

Description

Since the turn of the 21^st century, International History has regained its profile as a key research field, newly defined and practiced. This area seminar explores some of the most innovative as well as established themes of twentieth-century international history with the aim of familiarizing researchers with the field’s varieties of focus, methods, and analytical scope. We consider how advances in the related fields of transnational, global, and world history are influencing the ways in which international history is conceptualized and written. Empirical case studies rather than programmatic statements are studied along with non-Western and Western perspectives and texts. We concentrate on a few central, exemplary topical areas, interpretations and methodological approaches, which have redefined the discipline in recent times.