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The course will concentrate on political processes not only of the last hundred years, which were and are visible on the political map of Europe.
Last update: Riegl Martin, doc., Ph.D. (16.02.2015)
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Required and Recommended literature:
Documents: Final Act of the Congress of Vienna-General Treaty (1815) Brezhnev doctrine Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/we001.asp Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf Helsinky Final Act http://www.osce.org/mc/39501?download=true The General Act - The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 by European Powers Literature: Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 470 pp., Chapter 2, 7. De Blij, H. (2010). GEOGRAPHY Realms, Regions, and Concepts. Johny Wiley and Sons. Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4. http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269 Hirsi,A. (2006) Islam and the EU’s Identity Deficit, Brown Journal of World Affairs XII(1): 51-64 Michta, A.A. (2014). Putin´s irredentist project. The American Interest. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/07/29/stopping-putins-irredentist-project/ O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York. Snyder, T. (2014). Europe and Ukraine Putin´s Project. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/timothy-snyder-about-europe-and-ukraine-putin-s-project-12898389.html Tilly, C. (1975). The Formation of National States in Western Europe. New Jersey: Princetown University Press. Chapter 1 and 2. Walton, N., Zielonka, J. (2013). The New Political Geography of Europe. European Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR72_POLICY_REPORT_AW.pdf Recommend literature:
Buruma, I., A.Margalit (2002). Occidentalism. In: The New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, no. 1. De Blij, P.Muller. (2010). Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts (14th edition). John Wiley and Sons. Nex York.
Sterio, M. On the Right to External Self-Determination: "Selfistans," Secession, and the Great Powers’ Rule. In Minnesota Journal of International Law. Vol 19, No.1.
Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs. http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf Nye, Joseph S. (2011). Future of Power. New York: Public Affairs. 320 pp.
Simms, B. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present. Tunander, O., Baev, P., Einagel, V.E. (1997). Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. International Peace Research Institute. Last update: Riegl Martin, doc., Ph.D. (30.01.2018)
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Written examination: Midterm test (on 6th lecture) accounts for 20%, final exam accounts for 80% of the total grade (questions are chosen from all course lectures and required literature) reading and presentations. Multiple choice test. Overall evaluation: The final assessment is marked as following: 100 % - 91 % ...A 90 % - 81 % ... B 80 % - 71 % ... C 70 % - 61 % ... D 60 % - 51 % ... E Less than 50 % ... F Last update: Riegl Martin, doc., Ph.D. (02.02.2019)
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The course will start with the creation of the system of nation-states, the description of the ambitions of the great European powers, and the collapse of multi-national empires. The course will continue with the political problems of inter-state relationships, border disputes and minorities questions as one of the biggest problems of European politics in the 20th Century. The other important topic will be the errection and fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe, and the ways in which the new political geography of Eastern Europe was formed. Special attention will be given to the geography of the Balcan crisis of the 1990´s. The last sessions will be about changes caused by the crisis of nation-states: problems of regionalism and the decentralisation of political powers, as well as reintegrations processes within the EU(e. g. migration and the creation of ?new? minorities).
Course structure: 1) Úvodní přednáška Reading:
2) Definice termínů
Reading: Muir, R. (1993): Modern Political Geography. London: Macmillan.
3) Short, J. R. (1993): An Introduction to Political Geography. London, New Xork: Routledge.
4) Starý a nový regionalismus (Haushoffer vs. Huntington)
Reading: Glassner, M. I. (1995): PoliticalGeography. NewYork, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore: John Wiley and Sons.
5) Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of world panregions
Reading: Chaliand, G., Rageau, J. P. (1989): Strategic Atlas. Penguin Books. Kliot, N., Newman, D. (2000): Geopolitics at the End of theTwentieth Century. London, Portland: Frank Cass.
6) Regionalism and Politics of Europe and Americas
Reading: Clout, H., Blacksell, M., King, R., Pinder, D. (1994): Western Europe. Longman.
7) Regionalism and Politics of Africa, Asia and Australia
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8) Geography of religion
Reading: Huntington, S. P. (1997): The Clash of Civilizations and the Remarking of World Order. London: Touchstone Books.
9) Geography of languages
Reading: De SWANN, A. (2001). Words of the world: The global language system. Cambridge/Malden, MA: Polity Press and Blackwell Publishing. SPOLSKY, B. (2004). Language Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10) Integration processes in the world
Reading: Glassner, M. I. (1995): PoliticalGeography. NewYork, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore: John Wiley and Sons.
11) Dessintegration processes in the world (secession, irredentism)
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12) World of states or regions?
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13) Final test
Last update: RIEGL (23.09.2011)
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none. Last update: RIEGL (23.09.2011)
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