Global Decolonization (DHP-H250)

Fall 2026 · DHP H250 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Decolonization is one of the most significant historical phenomena of the modern world. The end of empires across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave way to the international system in which we live today: one constituted of politically independent nation-states. This course, drawing on historical methodologies, explores how decolonization was often a fraught,contested process that shaped not only the international system but also forms of nationhood and statehood, modes of political and social mobilization, and definitions of individual rights. Special attention is paid to the “Global South” as a crucial arena through which local, national, and international relations were forged, and we will further reflect on “decolonization” as the past versus “decolonization” as method.

Course codes: DHP-H250, HIST-0206, HIST 0206, HIST0206, HIST-206, HIST 206, HIST206

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