HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

10.2: Developing Nations in the Modern Era

• 10.2.1: "Chinese Democracy?": Tiananmen and Communist Rule in China

  • George Washington University: Jeffrey T. Richelson and Michael L. Evans' "Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History"

    This article discusses the contentious relations between the U.S. and China after the crackdown by the Chinese army at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
    

• 10.2.2: The Asian Miracle

  • Economic Development in East Asia

    Read this article.
    

• 10.2.3: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics

  • George Mason University: T. Mills Kelly's "Breakup of Yugoslavia"

    In this lecture, T. Mills Kelly of George Mason University discusses the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He focuses on popular dissatisfaction with the Communist and post-Communist political regimes in Yugoslavia and efforts by ethnic nationalists to resolve centuries of political and cultural tension in the region through military force. Kelly goes into great detail about the breakup of Yugoslavia and explains the motivations of different ethnic groups involved in the decade-long conflict.
    

  • Robert J. Leiber's "A Contested Future"

    Read this article on pages 13-20.