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BA EXAMINATION
4SSW1007 The History of the International System
Examination Period 2 (May 2019)
TIME ALLOWED: 2 HOURS
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4SSW1007
1.
Was the Treaty of Paris (1763) more consequential for
international politics than the Peace of Westphalia (1648)?
2.
Assess the claim that “the balance of power in Europe in the
18th century was fundamentally unsustainable.”
3.
What drove the expansion of European colonial empires?
4.
Why did the Treaty of Vienna (1815) usher in a longer period
of peace following the Napoleonic Wars than the Versailles
settlement (1919) did following World War I?
5.
Why did the July Crisis (1914) escalate into a European war
and ultimately a world war?
6.
Did decolonisation mark a major change in world politics?
7.
Why did the Cold War last so long?
8.
What has been the historical
globalisation and inequality?
relationship
between
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