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)
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 6th, 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 5th, 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 13th, 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 6th, 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 17th, 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, 115th Congress, February 3rd, 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
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