Germany and Austria and the Visegrad Countries - JMMZ132

• Title: Germany and Austria and the Visegrad Countries
• Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2017 to 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 9
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. JUDr. Vladimír Handl, CSc.

Annotation

This course is focusing on German and Austrian policy towards Visegrad countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia). The aim of the course is a comparison of the German and Austrian approach to the countries of the region and a definition of common characteristics and differences. The main focus is on the relations after 1989.

Last update: HANDL (11.10.2017)

Literature

TEWES, Henning Germany, Civilian Power and the New Europe. Enlarging NATO and the European Union. Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2002. vybrané kapitoly.

PHILLIPS, Ann L. Power and Influence after the Cold War. Germany in East-Central Europe. Boulder, etc: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. vybrané kapitoly.

CORDELL, Karl - WOLFF, Stefan Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited. London: Routledge, 2005.

BULMER, Simon - JEFFERY, Charlie - PATERSON, William E. Germany´s European Diplomacy. Shaping the regional milieu. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2000. kapitola o rozšíření

HÖLL, Otmar. "Österreichs Außenbeziehungen gegenüber Zentral- und Osteuropa seit 1995." Europäische Rundschau, vol. 30, 2/2002, s. 41-50.

WOOD, Steve. Germany and East-Central Europe: Political, Economic and Socio-Cultural Relations in the Era of EU Enlargement. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

CORDELL, Karl - WOLFF, Stefan. A Foreign Policy Analysis of the German Question: Ostpolitik Revisited. Foreign Policy Analysis, 2007, 3, s. 255-271.

SPERLING, James. Neither Hegemony nor Dominance: Reconsidering German Power in Post Cold-War Europe. British Journal of Political Science, 31/2001, s. 389-391, s. 408-410.

BAUN, Michael. Germany and Central Europe: Hegemony Re-examined. German Politics, 2005, vol. 14, no. 3, s. 371-389.

LANGENBACHER, Eric. "Changing Memory Regimes in Contemporary Germany?" German Politics and Society, 2003, issue 67, vol. 21, no. 2.

WOOD, Stewe. German Expelee Organisations in the Enlarged EU. German Politics, 2005, vol. 14, no. 4, s. 487-497.

JORDAN, Peter. EU Enlargement, the New Central European Member States, and Austria. Journal of Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2007, vol. 47, no. 6, s. 662-682.

ASH, Timothy Garton. Europe?s Name. Germany and the Divided Continent. London: Vintage, 1993. závěr.

KATZENSTEIN, Peter (ed.): Mitteleuropa Between Europe and Germany. Berghan Books, 1997. úvod a vybrané kapitoly.

HANDL, Vladimír - HON, Jan - PICK, Otto: Germany and East Central Europe since 1990. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, Karolinum, 1999. vybrané kapitoly.

HYDE-PRICE, Adrian. The international Politics of East Central Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

ZELIKOW, Philip - RICE, Condoleezza. Germany Unified and Europe Transformed. A Study in Statecraft. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.Press, 1995.

LORD, Christopher (ed.). Central Europe: Core or Periphery? Copenhagen/Prague: Copenhagen Business School Press/Institute of International Relations, 2000.

KATZENSTEIN, Peter J. (ed.): Tamed power : Germany in Europe. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Österreich und Tschechien zwischen Konflikt und Kooperation. Thematisches Heft mit dem Schwerpunkt Österreich-Tschechien, Europäische Rundschau, 4/2000, s. 3-78.

Ist das tschechische Rechtssystem bereits EU-konform? Praha, 2002. (protokol kolokvia Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, pořádaného v Praze 3.5. 2001.)

Last update: NIGRIN (21.04.2010)

Syllabus

JMMZ132 Germany and Austria and the Visegrad Countries

 

This course is focusing on German and Austrian policy towards Visegrad countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia). The aim of the course is a comparison of the German and Austrian approach to the countries of the region and a definition of common characteristics and differences. The main focus is on the relations after 1989.

Requirements: Essay 15 pages and a test

 

Topics and reading:

1.      Foreign policy identity of the CEE countries

Tulmets, E. (2014) „The ‘Return to Europe’: Redifining ECE Political Identities after 1989“ in Tulmets, E., East Central Europe Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective, Palgrave McMillan: 2014, p. 21-83 (focus on Polen, Czech Republic, Hungary) 

Drulák, P. etc (2008) Außenpolitik in Ostmitteleuropa. Von Universalisten, Atlantiker, Europäisten und Souvärenisten. Osteuropa 7/2008, 139-152

 

2.      Relations CEE with Germany

Sprüds, A. (2012) Friendship in the Making. Transforming Relations Between Germany and the Baltic-Visegrad Countries. Riga, LIIA (here chapters on Germany, Czech Republic, Polen, Hungary and Slovakia)

Poplawski, K (2016) The Role of Central Europe in the Geman Economy. The political Consequences. Warszawa, OSW.

Handl, V. - Paterson, W. E. (2013) The continuing relevance of Germany´s engine for Central Europe and the EU, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 46 (3), 327-337

 

3.      Relations with Austria

Luif, P. (2012) „Austria and Central Europe“, in Drulák, P. and Šabič, Z. (eds) Regional and International Relations of Central Europe (Houndsmills: Palgrave), 80-103

 

4.      Optional topic: Central European Attitude to Russia-Ukraine crisis

Forbrig, J. (2015) Region Disunited? Central European Responses to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis. Washington, GMF.

 

Last update: HANDL (17.10.2017)