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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Malvína Krausz Hladká, Ph.D. (19.11.2018)
REGIONAL ARCHITERCTURE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Course lecturer (PhDr. T. Tökölyová, PhD. – tokolyova.vsmvv@gmail.com)
Course Description: This course is a part of international relations course and introduces the students the Pacific region, especially Australia and New Zealand and their foreign policies and position within international politics. The course is organized into five lectures and some specific subfields connected with discussion of current developments with the South Pacific countries reflecting the cultural, social, historical and economic aspects of the region´s development and challenges. The seminars predominantly take the form of class discussions of the reading materials.
ASSESSMENT
Active involvement – 10% Analytical paper– 90%
Active involvement at the meetings – how the student has fulfilled the given tasks for the following seminar (team work is possible in case of higher number of students; e.g. prepared/found newspaper articles on specific topic, power point presentations,…).
Analytical paper Students shall write 1 analytical paper of 10 standard pages in length on the given topics. This paper should critically discuss one of the reading materials below or topics discussed during lectures/seminars. Paper should be submitted by December 10th on tokolyova.vsmvv@gmail.com. Instructions for students before writing the analytical paper: The analytical paper should demonstrate that you are able to work with the literature and that you are capable of developing your own argument. The paper should be analytical, not descriptive. It is crucial that you choose a topic that interests you based on the list given by the lecturer. While writing the papers you are required to undertake a significant body of research beyond the seminar materials. Plagiarism Plagiarism constitutes the most serious academic offence. Plagiarism will result, at best, in your failing the course, depending on level of its seriousness. Please, see in the relevant sources all the required to prevent from such situations.
Evaluation scale: A (100 – 91) B (90 – 81) C (80 – 73) D (72 – 66) E (65 – 60)
Lecture/ topic
Countries)
Pacific actor- ODA, concept of transnational citizenship
Pacific actor- ODA, defence and security guarantee. China, USA, EU, etc.
Pacific Island Forum – current developments. Role of Fiji.
cooperation. Regional organizations within the Pacific region. APEC- open regionalism. Role of ASEAN in the South-Pacific development
japan – pacific islands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2xFVkya_RM
china: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r06pwSAXkcY
PIF
1. Introduction. Development of the PICs (Pacific Island Countries) –Main Challenges.
Objective of the lecture: The lecture is to point out at significant characteristics of the PICs focusing mainly on development support to PICs as 11 from 15 Pacific countries are small developing islands. ODA represents one of the most significant frameworks of this trans-regional cooperation as it comprises an important source of national income for these islands- supporting program is highly needed because of the nature of the region and problems it is facing. This matter is directly interlinked with many other destabilising factors as instable political situation; not well established system of political parties evoking the fact that parliamentary politics is often volatile then; and in many countries of these countries a turnover of national leaders is quite high, and this affects the durability of the programmes of economic reform. The lecture includes integration of the South Pacific, migration patterns, regional identity - cultural regionalism - specific features of Pacific regionalism (i.e. Pacific way and the lessons taken by now, as PIF, Pacific plan, etc.) reflecting the main aspects of the Pacific regionalism.
Recommended reading: 1. Statement of Intent 2009–2012 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand. Wellington 2009. ISSN: 1176-2470. pp. 1-64.
3. Pacific Focus Global Reach." 2014. 2013 Year in Review: New Zealand Action for International Development. New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Available online at: http://www.aid.govt.nz/media-and-publications/publications#yir. retrieved: 20.03.2017 4. "Pacific Islands People (Census 96)." 1996. Reference Reports. Available online at: http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/pasfull/pasfull.nsf/web/Reference+Reports+Pacific+Islands+People+(Census+96)+1996?open. retrieved: 4.9.2014 5. Macpherson, [Cluny]. 1998. "Would the Real Samoans Please Stand Up? " New Zealand Geographer 55,no. 2:50-59 6. Miller, [David]. 1995. "Reflections on British national identity. " Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 21, no. 2: 153-166
Objective of the lecture:
The Pacific was always central to New Zealand’s security, defence and diplomatic policies as it faces major challenges. Tensions in the region were caused by the disagreements over the land or by the clash of traditional values with those of a rapidly globalising world, on the other hand, there were limited economic opportunities causing poverty and resulting in turmoil. In several countries, these tensions have led to breakdowns in civil order and violence that meant another challenge to New Zealand together with Australia. Both countries cooperated in the stabilisation and state-building missions in conflicting areas (e.g. situation in the East Timor or Solomon Islands, the RAMSI operation). New Zealand has developed some quite distinctive national characteristics associated with a small state concept, when nation building and foreign policy building are closely interconnected to the region. Lecture is introducing New Zealand as having specific and unique position in the Pacific region implementing various instruments, as development assistance and concept of trans-regional citizenship.
Recommended reading:
Objective of the lecture:
The lecture aims to introduce the most important aspects of Australian foreign policy and its position within the world international relations and explain how these aspects determined the development of Australia into its current position of middle power. This lecture is aimed at the Middle power concept as proven in foreign policy of Australia. Introductory part is providing a brief analysis of theoretical grounds as required for the further analysis of particular signs of Middle power policies within Australia’s foreign policy of the last decades. Although it is still only taken as a Middle Power, it can be considered, at least one of the leading powers in the Pacific Region and also in South-East region. Country is strong by its military capabilities, and also by its very good relations with strong and key players like United States, Japan, European Union and not forgets United Kingdom, and their willingness to cooperate is widely used. Their eagerness to take part in the mission created by United Nations is respectable. Australian ability to be an active Global Security protector, although it also has some negative sides, should be spread all over the world, because there is huge deficiency. The lecture deals with not only security and counter-terrorism issues but also with environmental issues (e.g. case of Kyoto Protocol), matters of weapons of mass destruction, economic issues, etc. In the area of trade, the most important became the relations with the growing economies of Asia. The final part of the lecture is devoted to the EU – Pacific Cooperation (Pacific island countries often referred as ACP countries; most of them face high rate of poverty, mal-administration, etc.) that is based mainly on common historical roots, values and established trade cooperation. Developing cooperation resulted into requirement to adopt the first EU Strategy for the Pacific area to strengthen the political dialogue and cooperation, and thus it improves efficiency of the provided assistance. In environmental area, this region plays a significant role in elimination of impacts of climate changes. This cooperation mainly developed with the countries –former colonising powers having their interest areas in the Pacific based on the historical background mainly in the areas of economy and trade, security, development assistance, science, technology and education, and climate changes. The main instruments are general agreements and treaties, sectorial agreements, meetings/negotiations, membership/activity in regional organisations.
Recommended reading:
1. Smith, G.-Cox, D. – Burchill, S.: Australia in the World. An Introduction into Australian Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-19-553477-8. 2. Chapnik, A.: Middle Power. Canadian Foreign Policy 7, 2. 1999. pp. 78-82 3. Croucher G.: Australia as a creative middle power, again? Australian Policy Online. 2009. http://apo.org.au/commentary/australia-creative-middle-power-again 4. Houston A.G. - Watt I.J.: Defence Annual Report 2009-2010. 2011.Volume 1. Department of Defence.
7. Roarty, M.: The Kyoto Protocol—Issues and Developments through to Conference of the Parties 8. Australian Government – Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2011). International Counter Terrorism. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
10. Roarty, M. (2002, November 1). The Kyoto Protocol—Issues and Developments through to Conference of the Parties (COP7). Parliament of Australia – Parliamentary Library. 11. Rudd, K. (2009, March 26). Australian Prime Minister Rudd on the Global Economic Crisis. Blip. 12. Vaughn, B. (2006, April 20). CRS Report for Congress – Australia: Background and U.S. Relations. Policy Archive. 13. The Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP countries) 14. The Interim Pacific Economic Partnership Agreement 15. Thomas Renard: The EU Strategic Partnerships Review: Ten Guiding Principles. Esp Uropean Strategic Partnerships Observatory. Policy Brief 2. April 2012 16. FORWARD in partnership. Strategic areas of intervention for the European Union in Papua New Guinea.Published by the European Commission, Papua New Guinea, 2007. ISBN 9980-937-32-7 17. EU-Pacific strategy. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee of 29 May 2006 - EU relations with the Pacific Islands - A strategy for a strengthened partnership [COM(2006) 248 – Official Journal C 184 of 8 August 2006].Statement of Intent 2009–2012 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand. Wellington 2009. ISSN: 1176-2470. pp. 1-64. 18. Mauritius Declaration and Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, 2005.
Pacific Island Forum – Current Developments. Role of Fiji.
Objective of the lecture: The lecture is devoted to a new set of ideas about how the Pacific should engage in global and regional diplomacy. The coherence and novelty of these ideas and their departure from prevailing ideas suggests a ‘paradigm shift’ and is reflected in various calls for the development of an effective Pacific voice reflecting the claim that the Pacific needs to engage assertively in global diplomacy in relation to key challenges impacting the region. The key areas are as climate change, tuna diplomacy and oceans management. It is claimed that there should be effective representation of a genuine ‘Pacific voice’ in global forums and that Pacific Island states need to work together in joint diplomacy (concept of „network“ diplomacy) at the global level (tuna, climate diplomacies). It is important to note the wider support for these new institutions and ideas across the region as evidenced in the support for a new array of Pacific-controlled institutions. Growing recognition and acceptance is given to role of sub-regional groupings and initiatives, in line with the view that a ‘one-region’ approach need not be the best approach. Pacific sub –regionalism is often denoted a cultural regionalism as Pacific states are generally grouped into three cultural sub-divisions –Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. The new Pacific diplomacy expressed in the actions of the Pacific Island states since 2009 in developing a new diplomatic architecture outside the PIF system, both to conduct some important aspects of regional affairs, and to represent the Pacific Islands region to the world on the key issues of concern such as climate change and fisheries management. Key issues include trade, climate change, decolonisation, fisheries management, and sustainable development.
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Objective of the lecture: The Pacific has a network of regional organisations and institutions, which play an important role in addressing shared development challenges. Australia, NZ advocate for Pacific regionalism and the Pacific Plan, and offers significant support to these Pacific Regional Organisations (PROs). The lecture deals with most significant regional organisations operating in the region, mainly APEC promoting open regionalism and the Pacific Islands Forum based on the latest initiatives, as Port Moresby Declaration by Rudd. It also deals with strengthening of Australia’s regionalism through APEC as a major redirection of Australia’s foreign policy after the end of Cold war. Lecture identifies principles and roles played by ASEAN in economic cooperative processes within South – Pacific region while promoting ASEAN way as a model of Asian regionalism.
Recommended reading: 1. SINCLAIR, K.: Tasman relations. Auckland University Press 1987. ISBN 1 86940 018 6. pp. 164 – 182 2. SMITH, G.-COX, D. – BURCHILL, S.: Australia in the World. An Introduction into Australian Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-19-553477-8. 3. HOUSTON A.G. - Watt I.J.: Defence Annual Report 2009-2010. 2011.Volume 1. Department of Defence. 4. ACHARYA, A. 2007. Ideas, identity, and institution‐building: From the ‘ASEAN way’ to the ‘Asia‐Pacific way'? In The Pacific Review. roč. 10, 1997, č. 3, s. 319-346. ISSN (online) 1470-1332 DOI:10.1080/09512749708719226. 5. BAOGANG, HE, TAKASHI, I. 2011. Introduction To Ideas of Asian Regionalism. In Japanese Journal of Political Science, VOL. 12, 2011, č. 2, s. 165–177. ISSN 1468-1099 [online]. DOI:10.1017/S1468109911000016. 6. BERGSTEN, F. 1997. Open Regionalism. Washington: Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. [online]. [cit. 2016-03-20]. Available at: http://www.iie.com/publications/wp/wp.cfm?ResearchID=152. 7. CAMILLERI, J. A. 2003. Regionalism in the new Asia-Pacific order. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84542-235-6. 8. DOIDGE, M. 2011. The European Union and Interregionalism: Patterns of Engagement. United Kingdom : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. ISBN 9780754679271. 9. KIMURA, F. 2007. New Open Regionalism? Current Trends and Perspectives in the Asia-Pacific. [online]. [cit. 2016-03-23] Available at: http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090201_bsa_kimura.pdf. 10. LANGHAMMER, Rolf J. 1998. Regional Integration APEC Style: Are there Lessons to Learn from Regional Integration EU Style? Kiel Working Paper No. 869, 1998. ISSN 0342-0787. [online] [cit. 2016-04-10] Available at: http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6361383.pdf 11. LEIFER, M. 1996. The ASEAN Regional Forum: Extending ASEAN’s Model of Regional Security. London: Oxford University Press, 1996. 65 p. ISBN 9780198292630.
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