EURO ST 101A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erebus, Anatolia, Nationstates
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Go to office hours, it is extra credit! 28 countries in the present eu (with six applicants for membership) What about muslims in europe? a burning issue. Greek origin, erebos, meaning darkness or evening, i. e. where the sun sets, Handed down to greeks from phoenicians in asia minor. Hence europe always defined in relation to its eastern other. That is we will be investigating the formation of the modern system of nation states. We will see that the modern world as we know it in europe, ( and in large part across the globe) took shape as a result of two centuries of radical instability. One question for you to consider (also if you eventually take es11 on contemporary issues) is whether the eu as a transnational structure signals take a shift into a new world order. New nation-state democracies, wifi, hybrid cars, new voting systems, laptops, robots etc. 1580"s of or pertaining to present recent times .