Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Foundations of diplomacy ; Lecture 2. Europe in 1500 : ancient and new monarchies ; Lecture 3. Renaissance statecraft in Italy ; Lecture 4. Religion and empire ; Lecture 5. The Thirty Years' War ; Lecture 6. The Peace of Westphalia, 1648 : a new era

Disc 2. Lecture 7. French superpower ; Lecture 8. The Great Powers ; Lecture 9. Northern earthquake ; Lecture 10. 18th-century competition ; Lecture 11. Revolutions ; Lecture 12. Napoleon's glory and defeat.

Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Congress of Vienna ; Lecture 14. The concert of Europe system ; Lecture 15. Eastern and Western questions ; Lecture 16. The Challenge of 1848 and Napoleon III ; Lecture 17. Britain's Empire ; Lecture 18. The Crimean War

Disc 4. Lecture 19. Italian unification ; Lecture 20. German unification ; Lecture 21. The Bismarckian System ; Lecture 22. High imperialism ; Lecture 23. The reconfigured world of 1900 ; Lecture 24. Balkan instability.

Part 3. Disc 5. Lecture 25. The outbreak of World War I ; Lecture 26. World War I : total war ; Lecture 27. The Paris Settlement ; Lecture 28. Interwar Europe ; Lecture 29. Europe in crisis ; Lecture 30. World War II

Disc 6. Lecture 31. Aftermath and peace plans ; Lecture 32. The Cold War begins ; Lecture 33. Blocs and decolonization ; Lecture 34. The European project ; Lecture 35. The Fall of the Wall ; Lecture 36. Post-Cold War to the present.