Neutrality and its history in Western Europe - JMMZ071

• Title: Neutrality and its history in Western Europe
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2009 to 2009
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (30)
• 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: Sofia Valdez Tůma, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Sofia Valdez Tůma, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: VASKA (13.02.2009)

This course intends to understand the ambiguous and nebulous character of the neutral and neutrality. Since the modern concept of neutrality was born at Sea, we intend to follow the contribution of some European maritime powers until the rise of a neutral status recognized by constitution and international society in the 20th century. Neutrality is analysed in an interdisciplinary framework, with the purpose to cross borders between political and gender studies.

Syllabus

Last update: VASKA (13.02.2009)

Lecturer ? Sofia Valdez Tůma, MA

Email: [e-mail]

ECTS ? 6

Syllabus

1. Images of the Neutral

2. Gender identities

3. Free Trade and Navigation

4. Law and Justice

5. Politics

6. Abstention or/and impartiality

7. Toleration

8. Diplomacy and corps diplomatique

9. Immunities

10. Cosmopolitism

11. Independence and Sovereignty

12. Democracy

Aim of subject

After focusing on the practise of neutrality and its slow codification based on a recognized common law (Law of Nations), students should be familiar with the historical context about one of the most important concepts in International Relations. Students will be able to evaluate the experience of being neutral: its rights and duties, limits and transgressions and several kinds of ambiguities that make the neutral at the same time a desirable friend and a hated enemy.

Requirements for assessment of study

An essay and a short presentation

Entry requirements

None