Contemporary Greece - JMM203

• Title: Contemporary Greece
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2007 to 2008
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Prof. Nikos Marantzidis

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Luboš Švec, CSc. (05.06.2013)

The aim of this course is to closely follow the often turbulent development of the Balkan region from the year 1989
until present days. The essence is to tackle various stereotypes and misinterpretations that are still hunting the
Balkan region. Chronologically, the course will follow the fall of communist regimes in the region, Yugoslav wars,
political transformation in Romania and Bulgaria, the commencement and progress of the integration process into
the EU and also current political hindrances in the region.

Apart from observing the political and international context of the last 20 years in the Balkans, it is necessary to
understand the theoretical approaches and general context in which the region develops. Individual lectures will
thus combine factual approach with theoretical one - political transformation, EU integration, theories of
international relations, securitization, civic and national states, national "great ideas" or national and territorial
sovereignty etc.

The objective of this course is to enable the students to approach the Balkan affairs in its complexity,
understanding as well as applying theoretical context on contemporary Balkan affairs.

Course completion requirements

Last update: prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (23.05.2013)

Assessment: 

Presentation + written essay on the same topic (max. 1500 words):  30 %

Midterm test (lectures 1-6): 20 %

Oral exam (the exam will be based on the work and study material from all lectures/ 1-12): 20 %

Attendance, discussion (based on the readings) and group work: 30 %
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Minimal criteria to pass the course: 60%

Entry requirements

Last update: prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (23.05.2013)

Preliminary reading:
-       Sabrina P. Ramet, Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1-35, 305-319.

 -       Daily post (basic sources available on this link)