Instructions

Read every word on this page before you start writing.

Answer any THREE of the following questions:

Question 1: How was the Peace of Westphalia relevant to the emergence of the modern territorial state? Be specific.

Question 2: China, Abyssinia, and Japan were never European colonies, yet they each became Westphalian states. How and why did this transformation occur?

Question 3: After the European powers defeated Napoleon in 1815, in what ways did they attempt to improve the workings of the European balance of power? Did they succeed?

Question 4: In what ways did the design of the United Nations reproduce the structure of the nineteenth-century “Concert of Europe”? In what ways did the design of the UN differ?

Question 5: Did the invention of nuclear weapons transform the balance of power system? Be specific.

In each of your answers, be sure to:

(a) answer the question; and

(b) present a clearly structured argument with relevant evidence from the lectures and course readings.