Select only 1 essay question from the list, draw from a minimum of 10 published academic secondary sources and 2 primary sources of your choice. 1. Using two examples, consider the role played by civil society in the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern and Central Europe. 2. Why did the GDR collapse? 3. Using two examples, examine attempts in Europe to construct a third way between communism and capitalism. Is such a third way possible? 4. Why did the states of Europe divest themselves of their overseas empires after World War II? Answer in relation to not more than three states. 5. Why did the British population vote in favour of Brexit in 2016? 6. Discussing specific examples, account for the emergence of terrorist organisations in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. 7. Using examples from film or literature (at least two, but not more than three), discuss the ways in which culture has been employed to construct national identities in two European countries. 8. Discuss the claim that the future of Europe lies in higher levels of regionalism and supranationalism at the expense of nationalism. 9. What were the primary causes of the Troubles in Ireland, and why was it so difficult to end them? 10. Why did the Soviet Union collapse? 11. What were the driving forces behind European integration in the post-war period? 13. How was a distinctive national identity established in the GDR? How successful was it? 14. Account for the emergence of radical right-wing politics in at least two (but not more than three) European countries in the last two decades. 15. With reference to at least two (but not more than three) European countries, examine the impact of the emergence of Green politics. 16. What processes led to the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia? 17. Consider the claim that Tony Blair was little more than a Margaret Thatcher in trousers. 18. Account for the rise of the welfare state in post-war Europe. 19. Compare the emergence of Euroscepticism in two European states. 20. How successful are the works of Timothy Garton Ash and Anna Funder in representing the realities of life in the GDR and the role of the Stasi? 21. To what extent was the year 1968 a turning point in European history?
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