James Q. Whitaker Special Course I - JPM510 (US Foreigh Policy: Contemporary Security Challenges)

• Title: James Q. Whitaker Special Course I
• Guaranteed by: Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2011 to 2012
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: combined
• Hours per week, examination: 1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (25); summer:unknown / unknown (25)
• 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; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Běla Plechanovová, CSc.; doc. PhDr. Vít Střítecký, M.Phil., Ph.D.; Mgr. Petr Binhack, Ph.D.
• Is pre-requisite for: JPM523

Annotation

In Summer semester 2010 this course offers a series of lectures on US FOREIGN POLICY: CONTEMPORARY SECURITY CHALLENGES delivered by prof. David Haglund, Queens University.
The lectures take place during the week 19 - 23 APRIL 2010. The one-week course will introduce students to contemporary policy discussions in Washington regarding the nature of current and likely future security challenges and the most appropriate responses thereto.

Last update: PARIZEK (20.02.2010)

Literature

The readings will be posted here well in advance of the course; there will be two short articles for each lecture. Students subscribing to the course will be notified.

Last update: PARIZEK (19.02.2010)

Teaching methods

Block course, 5 seminars taking place on:

Monday April 19, 15.30 - 16.50

Tuesday April 20, 12.30 - 13.50

Wednesday April 21, 11 - 12.20

Thursday April 22, 12.30 - 13.50

Friday April 23, 11 - 12.20

Attendance is required, one absence is tolerated.

Term paper, 3000 words

Last update: PARIZEK (19.02.2010)

Syllabus

Monday, 19 April: International Terrorism

Leslie S. Lebl, "Radical Islam in Europe," Orbis 54 (January 2010): 46-60.

Dov S. Zakheim, "What?s In a Name? Ending the ?War? on Terror," American Interest (May/June 2008): 17-24.

Tuesday, 20 April: "Revisionist" States

Christopher Layne, "The Waning of U.S. Hegemony - Myth or Reality?" International Security 34 (Summer 2009): 147-72.

Daniel W. Drezner, "Bad Debts: Assessing China?s Financial Influence in Great Power Politics," International Security 34 (Fall 2009): 7-45.

Wednesday, 21 April: Nuclear Weapons

Francis J. Gavin, "Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War," International Security 34 (Winter 2009/10): 7-37.

Bradley L. Bowman, "The ?Demand-Side?: Avoiding a Nuclear-Armed Iran," Orbis 52 (January 2008): 627-42.

Thursday, 22 April: Environment (including Resources)

Michael T. Klare, "Oil, Iraq, and American Foreign Policy: The Continuing Salience of the Carter Doctrine," International Journal 62 (Winter 2006/2007): 31-42.

David G. Victor et al., "The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?" Foreign Affairs 88 (March/April 2009): 64-76.

Friday, 23 April: Transatlantic Alliance

Stephen M. Walt, "Alliances in a Unipolar World," World Politics 61 (January 2009): 86-120.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, "An Agenda for NATO: Toward a Global Security Web," Foreign Affairs 88 (September/October 2009): 2-20.

Last update: PARIZEK (26.02.2010)