Euroatlantic Community in Action: NATO Operations after Cold War (ACIS) - JPM564

• Anglický název: Euroatlantic Community in Action: NATO Operations after Cold War (ACIS)
• Zajišťuje: Katedra bezpečnostních studií (23-KBS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2015 do 2015
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/1, KZ [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / 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: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D.
• Ve slož. korekvizitě pro: JPM301, JPM666

Anotace

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (23.09.2013)

The course draws students’ attention to the deployments of NATO forces after 1989. It will focus on NATO’s involvement in crisis management operations since the end of Cold War, starting with the discussion on NATO’s future at the turn of 1990s, followed by the deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the bombardment of Milosevic’s Yugoslavia to the later engagement in Afghanistan and the recent operation in Libya.

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (23.09.2013)

The main goal of the course is to help its students understand how a Cold War defence alliance transformed into a security ‘exporter’ through various forms of expeditionary interventions. It will present the situation of and within NATO at selected moments of its post-Cold War history, drawing attention to complex and often uneasy decision-making which led to the aforementioned operations. The course strives to demonstrate that the selected course of action was by no means self-evident at the moment when the decisions were undertaken, and that narrower or broader range of alternative policy options always existed - thus helping the students grasp the complex and often capricious nature of the security environment and international relations.

 

To reinforce this understanding, the course will utilize the concept of ‘counterfactual history’. In their presentations, students will explore alternative policies and streams of historical development from NATO’s point of view. 

Deskriptory

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (23.09.2013)

After completing the subject, students should be able to understand in depth and in detail the recent history of NATO, including the broader international set-up, the Alliance’s decision-making processes and the executed operations. At practical level, students should improve their presentation, speaking and writing skills. Besides this, the whole seminar will require the students to get used to teamwork as one of the basic modes of cooperation. 

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (26.09.2015)

Students must fulfil ALL the requirements. A student who will not meet but a single one of the obligations will not be allowed to pass the course!

 

• regular attendance and participation in class debates
• absence from a seminar must be reported at least 24 hours before the seminar to the lecturer via his email (see above)
• only 1 absence per semester is allowed; any further absence can only be excused by presenting a medical approval or comparatively serious reason
• written answers to the questions for each lesson (15 points)
• presented to the lecturer in print at the beginning of each of the lessons
• if a student is not able to attend the lesson, he/she must send his/her answers via email
• class presentation (35 points)
• the topic of the presentation is specified below in the course structure
• the presentation must not last longer than 15 minutes
• preferably, it should have a visualized form (PowerPoint or similar)
• final paper (to be presented no later than January 31, 20156) (50 points)
• all papers will evolve from the same starting point: "NATO’s decision to ............. (here the actual issue will be selected by the student) .................. was wrong. Instead, it should have..."
• essentially, the paper will be an exercise in counterfactual history, taking, though, into account the limits and conceptual boundaries of the given historical situation
• each student can select a topic of his/her own choosing which can be consulted with the lecturer
• expected length of the paper: 3000 words
• the papers shall be submitted via email ([e-mail]) with a subject line "final paper JPM564"
• note on plagiarism:
• presenting a paper which uses sources without making proper reference to them will lead to an expulsion of a student from the course and possible other disciplinary action
• same procedure will be applied if a student presents a paper which he or she already presented in another course

Literatura

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (23.09.2013)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Andrews, D. M. (ed.): The Atlantic Alliance under Stress. US-European Relations after Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Aybet, Gülnur: A European Security Architecture after the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy. Macmillan, 2000.
• Diehl, P.: Peace Operations. Polity, 2008.
• Frantzen, H.: NATO and Peace Support Operations, 1991-1999: Policies and Doctrines. Taylor & Francis, 2005.
• Howorth, J. - Keeler, J. T. S. (eds.): Defending Europe: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Kobi, M. - Kellen, D. - Ben-Ari, E. (eds.): The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations. Greenwood, 2009.
• McInnes, C. - Wheeler, N. J. (eds.): Dimensions of Western Military Intervention. Routledge, 2002.
• Menon, R.: The End of Alliances. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Murray, L.: Clinton, Peacekeeping  and Humanitarian Interventionism: Rise and Fall of a Policy. Routledge, 2007.
• Smith, M. (ed.): Where Is NATO Going. Routledge, 2005.
• Seybolt, T. B.: Humanitarian Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure. Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Solomon, G. B. H.: The NATO enlargement debate, 1990-1997. Westport: Praeger, 1998.
• Welsh, J. M. (ed.): Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (23.09.2013)

The course aims at being "light on lecturing, heavy on debate". Each lesson will start with a brief introduction by the lecturer (30 minutes). He assumes (and indeed demands) that students learn the required readings before each of the seminars. This is a necessary precondition for successful presentations and fruitful participation in the discussion. At the beginning of each of the lessons, students will submit their answers to questions (in print) on the required readings.

 

For the purposes of the seminar, students will be divided into presentation groups, each tasked with preparing a presentation for one of the seminars. The presentations will revolve around alternative modes of action which NATO could (but eventually did not) take at each given historical moment in vogue. There will be two presentations in each seminar, each not exceeding the length of 15 minutes. The seminar will conclude with a class discussion (20 minutes) based on the required readings and presentations.

 

At the end of the course, each student will write a final essay, probing further an alternative course of action NATO could have taken in its recent history, laying forth arguments critical of the operations which were realized, thus sharpening the analytical understanding of the Alliance’s history. In evaluating the papers, premium will be put on the logic of reasoning, the cohesiveness of the paper’s argument, and the ability to present innovative (and at the same time relevant) ideas.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (26.09.2015)

Introductory session: Information on course structure, teaching methods and credit requirements (8.10.)

Lesson A: Confusing victory: searching for a new mission after the end of Cold War (22.10.)

Lesson B: NATO in Bosnia: intervenor of last resort (5.11.)

Lesson C: War over Kosovo and the controveries of humanitarian intervention (19.11.)

Lesson D: NATO in Afghanistan: from peacekeeping to counterinsurgency (3.12.)

Lesson E: New matrix? NATO in Libya (17.12.)