The subject proposes to carry out a critical and alternative tour of the world history of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. A far-fetched view of the classic analysis of “good” and “bad” that the official Western media and intellectuals have provided over the past hundred years. Thus, not only will be exposed and analyzed such characteristic issues as the birth of mass society, the economic, political and social articulation of it, the transformations of states, the dynamics center - periphery in its various spheres. or the great conflicts of the century, but to highlight how all these processes were the result of internal tensions in the different societies of the world, and where the presence of violence has been a common heritage of all of them and, unfortunately, a determining factor in its "progress." In this line of alternative analysis, it will be highlighted how the dichotomy between right and left has not been and is not the only factor of political distinction between the historical forces at stake, but also have been and are decisive cultural and political religious elements. , often presented as complementary or secondary factors, but which are of fundamental relevance in countries as significant as the US. or the Arab-Islamic world; without forgetting how in Europe orthodox, catholic and protestant christian heritages are still essential to understand a secular conflict such as the irish or the difficult internal dialogue between the states that make up the european union and of these with the states of europe from the east.

 

Strictly speaking, the subject aims to provide students with a critical view of the world in which we live and to allow them to think historically about the social, cultural and political problems of the present from a not so distant past. The ultimate goal of the subject is none other than, in this sense, that studentsacquire a solid historical perspective of the phenomena they will have to address throughout their careers and their future professional journalistic activity, not just as a mere passive transmitter of the reality that surrounds him, but also as a rigorous analyst of it.