Transatlantic Issues - U.S. and British Security Policies Compared - JMMZ068

• Title: Transatlantic Issues - U.S. and British Security Policies Compared
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2012
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/4, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• 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. PhDr. Otto Pick

Annotation

The special relationship between the United States and Britain hinger on security issues and intelligence cooperation. It will trace the historical and cultural origins of the relationship, but will concentrate on the Grand Alliance (1940-45) and developments since 1945. It will focus on the asymmetrical nature of the relationship by examining the motives of both sides, where they coincide and where they diverge. Case studies may be helpful (eg. Kosovo, Iraq, Suez 1956?.).
Attention will be also paid to the British dilemma of having to reconcile European commitments with the American alliance.

Last update: CALDA (19.02.2009)

Literature

Required:

John Dumbrell: A Special Relationship (New York 2001)

John Baylis: Anglo-American Defence Relations 1939-1984 (2nd edition, London, 1984)

Wallace & Philips: Reconsidering the special relationship, in International Affairs 85/2 March 2009

Recommended:

Daalder and Lindsay: America unbound ? the Bush revolution in foreign policy (Washington 2003]

G. M. Dillon: Dependence and Deterrence (Aldershot 1983)

D. Andrews, ed.: The Atlantic Alliance under stress (Cambridge 2005)

Christopher Lane: The unipolar illusion revisited in International Security 31/2 Fall 2006

John L. Gaddis: A Grand Strategy in Foreign Policy Nov/Dec 2002

Tony Blair: The Battle for Global Values in Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 2007

and the following articles in International Affairs:

J. Nye: The American national interest, 78/2 March 2002

Tim Dunne: The Atlanticist Identity in British Security Strategy, 80/5 Oct 2004

Ch. Bleuth: Britain?s road to war, 80/5 Oct 2004

Theo Farrell: The dynamics of British military transformation, 84/4 July 2008

(these materials are available either in the Jinonice library or in the Institute of International Relations ? Nerudova 3)

Essential documents include the US National Security Strategy 2002 and 2005 and the British Defence White Paper 2003

Last update: CALDA (19.02.2009)

Requirements to the exam

Students will be required to write a seminar paper of not less than 20 pages on a topic to be agreed with the lecturer. They will also present this topic for discussion in the seminar.

Grades will be awarded on the basis of the paper (50%), the seminar presentation (30%) and seminar attendance and participation (20%).

Last update: CALDA (19.02.2009)

Syllabus

Themes of individual seminar meetings as well as selected readings will be determined by the students? choice of topics.

Last update: CALDA (19.02.2009)

Entry requirements

This is an MA seminar. The course will be in English and participation is limited to twenty.

Last update: CALDA (19.02.2009)