Individual and the State
2) One of the major themes of the course has been the relationship between the individual and the state. How did this relationship change over the course of the twentieth century? You should begin with a short discussion (one or two paragraphs) on the relationship between the individual and the state in the period before 1789 (under feudalism) and after 1789, during the nineteenth century (classic liberal view). The body of your essay should then cover the entire 20th century: WWI, the interwar period (Bolshevism, Fascism, Nazism), WWII and the Holocaust, the Cold War (Communism in East, and Social Democracy-welfare state in the West), the end of the Cold War, and the 1990s and 2000s, including a discussion of the EU, immigration, terrorism, and the fate of the European Social Model. Finally, good essays will account for the fact that the relationship between the state and the individual was often very different depending on the race, sex, gender, ethnicity, or religion of a given individual
