IPCP 202 - Nations and Nationalism

Taught in Prague, Czech Republic. Students will gain an insight into the national awakening, national policies of multi-ethnic states and national programs and their leaders. The course will center around three phenomena that had fateful consequences for the 20th century: the unsuccessful attempt to eliminate national tensions by creating new nation-states after WWI, and the encounters with both major totalitarian ideologies - Nazism and Communism. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits