This course is framed in the International Relations discipline. Through masterpieces of world literature students will learn about major historical events in the international relations of the late modern and contemporary ages, comprising the period that goes from the French Revolution to the present times. Fragments of works by Tolstoi, Dickens, Conrad, Zweig or Foster Wallace, among others, will be used to examine key episodes in world history such as the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the rise of communism, the colonization race, the First World War, the Russian Revolution, the Second World War, the Cold War and the postmodern era from the 1990s on.