Core Course: Introduction to WCS/IWS - Einzelansicht

The lecture will provide students of the International War Studies and War and Conflicts programmes with on overview of methods, sources and theoretical approaches of historians, political scientists and sociologists to their field. Furthermore core aspects of key wars and conflicts from Medieval times towards the present age will be discussed.

Hew Strachan, The Changing Character of War, Oxford 2007
Garry Sheffield (Ed.), War Studies Reader, London 2010, pp. 1-15
Jeremy Black, Jeremy: Introduction to Global Military History. 1775 to the Present Day, London 2005.

Written exam in the last week of the term.