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Security implications of the EU-USA relations - JMB165

Title:	Bezpečnostní aspekty vztahů EU-USA
Guaranteed by:	Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (24)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D.
Pre-requisite :	JMB006

Schedule Noticeboard

Annotation -

The course focuses on security aspects of the transatlantic relations. The students will learn about history and present shape of the security cooperation between Europe and the United States. Analysis and comparison of European and American reactions on selected security threats will be the cornerstones of the course.

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (18.02.2009)

Aim of the course -

The course aims at introducing the differences and similarities of the European and American approaches to security issues of contemporary world.

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (18.02.2009)

Literature -

Asmus, Ronald D., A dissenting voice on the values and interests gap, in: Zaborowski, Marcin (ed.), Friends again? EU-US relations after the crisis, Paris: EUISS, 2006, s. 55-61.

Hockenos, Paul, U.S. & Europe: Partnership of Equals, World Policy Journal, Winter 2008/9, s. 115-126.

Král, David, Řiháčková, Věra, Weiss, Tomáš, Views on American Foreign Policy: The Atlanticism of Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe, Praha: Institut pro evropskou politiku EUROPEUM, 2008.

Kupchan, Charles A., The Transatlantic Turnaround, Current History, Mar 2008, s. 139-140.

Lundestad, Geir, The United States and Western Europe since 1945: from "empire" by invitation to transatlantic drift, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sloan, Stanley R., NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic community: the transatlantic bargain reconsidered, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

+ extra in Moodle

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (23.02.2009)

Teaching methods -

Combination of a lecture, student group presentations, and discussion.

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (18.02.2009)

Requirements to the exam -

Group presentations: 40 %
Exam: 60 % (sit-in open-book essay)
Grades: A (100-90%, excellent), B (89-83%, very good), C (82-75%, very good), D (74-67%, good), E (66-60%, good), F (59-0%, failed)

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (27.08.2012)

Syllabus -

1. Introduction, historical overview

2. Institutions - NATO or EU-US

3. Strategic documents, strategic views

4. Hard security: NATO/ESDP and their future

5. Proliferation of WMD, armaments control

6. Fight against terrorism

7. Internal security

8. Failed states and tools for recovery

9. Energy security / Climate change

10. Prospects of transatlantic cooperation

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (23.02.2009)

Entry requirements -

Students should have the basic knowledge of the history of the 20th century. Completion of the courses The outline of modern world history I, II, and III is highly recommended.

Last update: Weiss Tomáš, prof. Mgr., M.A., Ph.D. (18.02.2009)