https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4152?type=COREThe course aims at providing students with an understanding of the formation of European political order from antiquity up to the dissolution of the ancien régime. Still, this is not a 'history' course. Rather, the objective is to familiarise students with the ways of theorising international political order, which, instead of focusing on some ahistorical, unchanging patterns, pay attention to the historically-acquired, contextually specific di?erences. This emphasis on di?erences and change also applies to the choice of approaches to the subject. Thus various conceptions of historiography - from materialist to the history of ideas - are presented.