This course examines political change in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. How are democracies created and why do they collapse? Did Eastern and Western Europe diverge politically centuries ago, or is the idea of a longstanding east-west divide largely an artefact of Cold War geopolitics?
1.0 credit in POL/ JPA/ JPF/ JPI/ JPR/ JPS/ JRA
Some prior knowledge of the broad outlines of European history.
POL377H1 (Topic: The Making of Modern Democracy: From the Middle Ages to the European Union) offered in Fall 2022 and 2023.
