USA Today II - JMM338

• Anglický název: USA Today II
• Zajišťuje: Katedra severoamerických studií (23-KAS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2013 do 2013
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, KZ [HT]
• Počet míst: 25 / 25 (25)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Mgr. Petr Anděl, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: Mgr. Petr Anděl, Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jan Hornát, Ph.D. (26.01.2016)

The aim of the course is to monitor and analyse events in US domestic and foreign policy in real-time. Looking at important issues that shape the public debate in the US, the course will provide insight into issues that are crucial for understanding contemporary US politics. Monitoring the dynamism of contemporary politics requires a thorough reading of real-time sources of information, such as online journals, newspapers and/or speeches of policymakers. To use the expression of Timothy Garton Ash, the course will provide students with a picture of the "history of the present" of the United States while applying analytical tools such as discourse analyses and case studies.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. (06.04.2017)

Major Issues in Contemporary Public Debates in the U.S. II - JMM338

Bloc I. Foreign policy 

1. Course introduction and requirements + Overview of Donald Trump's foreign policy team (20.2.2017)

2. Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy and the four archetypes of US foreign policy schools (27.2.2017)

• Brands, Hal and Colin Kahl, "Trump’s Grand Strategic Train Wreck", Foreign Policy, January 31, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/31/trumps-grand-strategic-train-wreck/
• Mead, Walter Russell, "The Jacksonian Revolt: American Populism and the Liberal Order", Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2017. 

3. Transatlantic relations at a crossroads (6.3.2017)

• Shapiro, Jeremy, "Serious and Existential: The Clinton and Trump Challenges to Transatlantic Relations", Istituto Affari Internazionali Working Paper, October 2016.
• Witte, Griff, "Trump tried and failed to build a wall in Ireland. That could mean big trouble for Europe", The Washington Post, February 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-tried-and-failed-to-build-a-wall-in-ireland-that-could-mean-big-trouble-for-europe/2017/02/05/4629d02e-e5a0-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.4a8ad5d6d62d&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

4. Whither relations with Russia? A "cool war"? (13.3.2017)

• Andrej Krickovic and Yuval Weber, "Why a new Cold War with Russia is inevitable", Brookings,  http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/09/30-new-cold-war-with-russia-krickovic-weber
• Ben Nimmo, "Propaganda in a New Orbit", Center for European Policy Analysis, http://www.cepa.org/sites/default/files/Info%20War%20Two.pdf
• David Rothkopf, "The Cool War", Foreign Policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/20/the-cool-war/

5. The US stuck between Iran and Saudi Arabia (20.3.2017)

• Carol E. B. Choksy and Jamsheed K. Choksy, "The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad", World Affairs, May/June, 2015, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/saudi-connection-wahhabism-and-global-jihad
• Stephen Kinzer, "The United States Shouldn’t Choose Saudi Arabia Over Iran", POLITICO, January 4, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/saudi-arabia-iran-213504

 

Bloc II. Domestic policy

6.       Why Trump? (27.3.2017)

• Kieryn Darkwater, “I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah,” Autostraddle, January 26, 2017, https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/
• “The Intolerance of the left: Trump’s win as seen from Walt Disney’s hometown,” The Guardian, January 27, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/why-donald-trump-win-walt-disney
• Tom McCarthy, “The Promise: Can Trump really make America great again?” The Guardian, January 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/17/donald-trump-america-great-again-northampton-county-pennsylvania
• Michael Kruse, “What Do You Do if a Red State Moves to You?” Politico, January/February 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/blue-red-state-democrats-trump-country-214647
• Rick Perlstein, “Peter’s Choice,” Mother Jones, January/February 2017, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/donald-trump-2016-election-oklahoma-working-class

 

7. "Grab them by ...": Women's rights and rape culture (3.4.)

• Nicholas Kristof, “Presidents Trump’s War on Women Begins,” The New York Times: The Opinion Pages, January 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/president-trumps-war-on-women-begins.html?_r=0
•  Gloria Steinem, “Why women are marching on Washington,” The Boston Globe, January 19, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/19/why-women-are-marching-washington/mY0XZLDS4pu57uVk6ou4EJ/story.html
• "US abortion debate: Both sides speak," BBC News, October 25, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34611878  
• "Trump's order on abortion: What does it mean?" BBC News, January 24th, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38729364 
•  Donald Trump, “Grab them by the…,” original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8U0IaMsRf4
• Liam Stack, “Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Draws Outrage,” The New York Times, June 6^th, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html?_r=0

  

8.       Eager administration or the birth of a dictatorship? (10.4.2017)

• Betina Palma, “FACT CHECK: Lawmakers Criminalize Peaceful Protests?” Snopes.com, January 23, 2017, http://www.snopes.com/lawmakers-criminalize-peaceful-protest/
•  “Bill Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters,” NPR: All Things Considered, January 31, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512636448/bills-across-the-country-could-increase-penalties-for-protesters
•  Jamiles Lartey, “Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters,” The Guardian, January 25, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/epa-department-agriculture-social-media-gag-order-trump
•  Nick Cohen, “Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter,” The Guardian: Opinion, February 5^th, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-lies-belief-totalitarianism
• Steven Rosenfelt, “If We Don’t Act Now, Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian,” an interview with Timothy Snyder, AlterNet, March 13^th, 2017, http://www.alternet.org/activism/if-we-dont-act-now-fascism-will-be-our-doorstep-says-yale-historian

 

9. Eater Break (17.4.2017)

 

10.  Fake News, "Alternative Facts," and the role of Media (24.4.2017)

• Celilia Kanc and Adam Goldman, “In Washington Pizzeria Attack, Fake News Brought Real Guns,” The New York Times, December 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/business/media/comet-ping-pong-pizza-shooting-fake-news-consequences.html
• John Swaine, “Donald Trump’s team defends ‘alternative facts’ after widespread protests,” The Guardian, January 23, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-inauguration-alternative-facts?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=209713&subid=21100470&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
• Rachael Refvesz, “All the ‘alternative facts’ Sean Spicer gave at this first official press briefing,” The Independent, January 23, 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alternative-facts-sean-spicer-first-official-press-briefing-white-house-employment-china-theresa-may-a7542566.html
• Samantha Schmidt and Lindsey Bever, “Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban,” The Washington Post, February 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban/?utm_term=.47a86b930ac1
• Philip Bump, “President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks,” The Washington Post, February 6^th, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/06/president-trump-is-now-speculating-that-the-media-is-covering-up-terrorist-attacks/?utm_term=.65ae4b99198b
• The GOP’s Mainstream Media Accountability Survey, https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/
• Lucie Graves, “Shooting the messenger: how Trump’s media vitriol could ultimately backfire,” The Guardian, February 17^th, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-media-press-relationship-history

 

 

11. Labor Day (1.5.2017)

12. V-Day (8.5.2017)

 

13. Environment and pubic lands (15.5.2017)

• Caty Enders, “Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies,” The Guardian, January 31, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz
• Caty Enders, “Republicans back off bill to sell 3.3m acres of public land after outcry,” The Guardian, February 2, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/republican-selling-public-lands-bill-withdraw-jason-chaffetz
• H.R. 861 – To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency, 115^th Congress, February 3^rd, 2017, https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/861
• Mathew Daly and Kevin Freking, “House Republicans Vote to End Rule Stopping Coal Mining Debris From Being Dumped in Streams,” Time, February 2, 2017, http://time.com/4657438/congressional-republicans-environmental-regulations-coal-streams/
• Denise Lu and Tim Meko, “How eliminating two EPA programs could affect large part of America,” The Washington Post, March 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/trump-epa-rollbacks/?%3Ftid%3D=sm_pg
• Robert Zullo, “Trump budget axes funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup,” Richmond Time – Dispatch, March 16, 2017, http://www.richmond.com/news/local/trump-budget-axes-funding-for-chesapeake-bay-cleanup/article_b9dbf596-6156-5825-a05f-810aab87add5.html