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Course, academic year 2018/2019
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Internal and external security policy of the European Union - JMM449
Title: Vnitřní a vnější bezpečnostní politika Evropské unie
Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2018 to 2018
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
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.
Teacher(s): prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (11.02.2020)
In SS 2020, the course will be taught twice weekly from 17 February to 27 March 2020.

The course aims at indroducing to students areas of security policy in the the European Union and their role in European security. Attention will be paid not only to structural characteristics of policy areas, but also their common and distinct attributes. After completing the course, students will understand ways and problems of providing internal and external security at the European level.
Aim of the course -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (17.02.2017)

The course aims at introducing to students the security policies of the EU, their institutions, specific characteristics, and problems.

Literature -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (17.02.2017)

Compulsory reading:

Howorth, Jolyon, 2007, Security and defence policy in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Guild, Elspeth a Geyer, Florian (eds.), 2008, Security versus justice?: police and judicial cooperation in the European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Šlosarčík, Ivo, 2010, Politický a právní rámec evropské integrace. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR. ((pouze kapitola XI Evropská spolupráce v oblasti vnitřní bezpečnosti)

and additional reading in Moodle.

 

Recommended reading:

Reichard, Martin, 2006, The EU-NATO relationship: a legal and political perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Smith, Michael E., 2003, Europe's foreign and security policy: the institutionalization of cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gordon, Philip H. and Shapiro, Jeremy, 2004, Allies at war: America, Europe, and the crisis over Iraq. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Balzacq, Thierry and Carrera, Sergio, 2006, Security versus freedom?: a challenge for Europe's future. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Teaching methods -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (05.04.2008)

Lecture

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (04.02.2018)

It is necessary to acquire at least 50 percent from each activity to complete the course.

•    two tests - mid-term a final (40 points)
•    essay in Moodle (4-6 pages) (60 points)

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (26.09.2011)

Addressed issues:

1) Key events in the second and third pillar development

2) Structural issues - institutions, law, politics - Structural characteristics and institutional architecture of internal and external security regulation: pillar differences, transplantation of institutions and possible future solutions

3) CFSP/CSDP - development, significance, operations

4) EU Internal Security - terrorism, border control, migration and asylum

5) EU energy security

6) Multilateralism and the EU

 
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