ECTS:

5

Code:

ΚΥ0706

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Compulsory

Teaching Period:

Winter

Course Content:

The course analyzes the basic characteristics of civil wars in modern times.
It compares four major civil wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, the American, the Russian, the Spanish and the Greek, in an attempt to identify the basic features of a civil war.
At a second level, it monitors the Greek civil war in terms of its causes and roots, the social and political processes that lead to it, its political and social characteristics.

Upon successful completion of the course students will: 1.- have acquired the basic background of education that will allow them to determine the position of war within the general framework of politics. 2.- They will have the basic knowledge to understand the historicity of the relationship between war and politics, a prerequisite for understanding the functioning of human societies in the past or today.