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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Social and Political Development of Benelux States - JMM136
Title: Sociálně politický vývoj Beneluxu
Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2014
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
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. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The course deals with social and political development in Belgium, in the Netherlands and in Luxembourg. Its goal is to provide information about the features which are shared by the three countries as well as about the differences between them. The countries are looked into from a variety of perspectives including historical, politcal, economic and cultural. Their international standing and its dynamics are also focused on.
Last update: VASKA (04.04.2008)
Aim of the course -

The course offers an introduction, on the graduate level, into the problematics of social and political development of Benelux as an important part of Western Europe. It is taught as obligatory for the West European Studies programme and as facultative for the European Studies programme.

Last update: VASKA (04.04.2008)
Literature -

General:

Andeweg, Rudy B. a Galen A. Irwin (2002) Governance and Politics of the Netherlands. London: Palgrave.

Belgium. IN: Love, Juliet and Jillian O?Brien, eds, Western Europe 2004. London: Europa Publications Limited, 82-119

The Netherlands. IN: Love, Juliet and Jillian O?Brien, eds, Western Europe 2004. London: Europa Publications Limited, 464-497

Luxembourg. IN: Love, Juliet and Jillian O?Brien, eds, Western Europe 2004. London: Europa Publications Limited, 421-438

Drulák, Petr (2000) Belgie, profil země. Směr EU (příloha Mezinárodní politiky), Prague, 4/2000, pp. 21-22

Kabela, Miroslav (1999) Holandská zkušenost. Brno: Barrister a Principal.

Kabela, Miroslav (2001) Holandská současnost. Brno: Barrister a Principal.

van Istendael, Geert (1998) Belgický labyrint. Praha.

Foreign policy:

Coolsaet, Rik: Belgie en zijn buitenlandse politiek, 1830-1990. Leuven, 1998

Deboutte, Jan a van Staden, Alfred: High politics in Low Countries. In: Wallace, William a Paterson, W.E.: Foreign policy making in Western Europe. Saxon House, 1978; s. 56-83

Drulák, Petr (1998) Identita malého státu v mezinárodní politice. Mezinárodní politika, Prague, 11/1998

Drulák, Petr (2003) Benelux. In: Vykoukal, Jiří, ed. (2003) Visegrád: možnosti a meze středoevropské spolupráce. Praha: Dokořán, s. 299-314.

Voorhoeve, Joris: Peace, profits and principles. Amsterdam, 1981

Political systém and parties:

Drulák, Petr (2003) Nizozemsku odbila třináctá hodina. Mezinárodní politika, 3/2003, p. 27-29

Fitzmaurice, John (1999) Belgium. In: MacIver, Don, ed., The Politics of Multinational States. London: Macmillan, 87-106

Habáň, Martin (2003) Federální volby v Belgickém království. Politologický časopis. 3/2003, 303-312.

Jacobs, Francis: Western European Political Parties. Longman, 1989

Keman, Hans (1996) Confrontation and coalition in segmented societies. In: Colomer, Joseph, ed., Political Institutions in Europe. London: Routledge. 211-253.

Kunc, Jiří

Říchová, Blanka a kol.: Komparace politických systémů II. VŠE, Praha, 1995; s. 9-43 a s. 87-130

EU related policies:

Bossaert, Danielle (2003) Luxembourg: flexible and pragmatic adaptation. In: Wessels, Wolfgang et al., eds, Fifteen into one? The European Union and its member states. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 298-314.

Drulák, Petr (2001) Předsednictví s buřinkou: Belgie v čele EU. Mezinárodní politika, 8/2001, pp. 38-40

Drulák, Petr (2001) Flandry a Evropa - vlámská (para)diplomacie. Integrace, 10/2001, www.integrace.cz

Franck, Christian et al. (2003) Belgium: Europeanisation and Belgian federalism. In: Wessels, Wolfgang et al., eds, Fifteen into one? The European Union and its member states. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 69-91.

Hoetjes, Ben J.S. (2003) Netherlands: a former foundind father in search of control. In: Wessels, Wolfgang et al., eds, Fifteen into one? The European Union and its member states. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 315-336.

Hill, Christopher, ed. (1996) The Actors in Europe?s Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.

Zeff, Eleanor and Ellen Pirro, eds, (2001) The European Union and the Member States: Cooperation, Coordination and Compromise. London: Lynne Rienner

Corruption:

Bull, Martin and James Newell (2003) Corruption in Contemporary Politics. London: Palgrave.

De Winter, Lieven (2000) Political Corruption in the Belgian Partitocracy: (Still) a Endemic Disease? EUI Working Papers, RSC 2000/31. Florence: European University Institute.

Culture and identity

Breuning, Marijke (1997) Culture, History, Role: Belgian and Dutch Axioms and Foreign Assistance Policy. In: Hudson, Valerie, ed., Culture and Foreign Policy. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 99-124.

Schürings, Ute (2003) Zwischen Pommes und Praline: Mentalitätsunterschiede, Verhandlungs- und Gesprächskultur in den Niederlanden, Belgien, Luxemburg und Nordrhein-Westfalen. Münster: Agenda Verlag

van der Wusten, Herman and Martin Roessingh (1997) Belgium and the Netherlands. In: Eatwell, Roger, ed., European Political Cultures: Conflict or Convergence?. London: Routledge. 32-49.

Colonialism:

Lumumba-Kasongo, Tukumbi (1999)The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers. London: Praeger.

Migration:

Entzinger, Han (1996) Veränderte Grundlagen: Die niederländische sicht der Einwanderung. In: Fassmann, Heinz und Rainer Münz, eds, Migration in Europa. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 139-160.

Last update: VASKA (04.04.2008)
Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: VASKA (04.04.2008)
Syllabus -

Title of the course: Social and Political Development of Benelux States

Lecturer: Doc. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.

Teaching: 1/1 Zk

Entry conditions: 0

Examination:

50% essay addressing a chosen topic (about 10 pages)

50% oral exam

Program:

1. Introduction

2. Common historical and cultural roots

3. Contemporary politcal and cultural identities

4. Comparing politcal systems

5. Foreign policies

6. Benelux countries and European integration

7. Federalization of Belgium

8. Experience of colonialism

Last update: VASKA (04.04.2008)
 
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