Security and Defence Integration in Europe and Transatlantic Relations - JPM555

• Title: Security and Defence Integration in Europe and Transatlantic Relations
• Guaranteed by: Department of Security Studies (23-KBS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: JPM701
• 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: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : JPM175
• Is incompatible with: JPM175

Annotation

The students will learn to think critically and conceptually about contemporary security issues, get
a grasp of the ongoing scholarly debates, and improve their reading and argumentation skills as
they work on assignments and participate in class debate.

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (14.02.2021)

Aim of the course

The students will learn to think critically and conceptually about contemporary security issues, get
a grasp of the ongoing scholarly debates, and improve their reading and argumentation skills as
they work on assignments and participate in class debate.

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

Descriptors

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Last update: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)

Course completion requirements

Grade composition:
Group assignment (seminar) 50%
Quizzes 25%
Final exam 25%

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

Literature

 

John Peterson (2018) Structure, agency and transatlantic relations in the
Trump era, Journal of European Integration, 40:5, 637-652, DOI:
10.1080/07036337.2018.1489801
Benjamin Zyla (2018): Transatlantic burden sharing: suggesting a new
research agenda, European Security, Transatlantic burden sharing. EU-NATO relations
Jo Jakobsen (2018): Is European NATO really free-riding? Patterns
of material and non-material burden-sharing after the Cold War, European Security,
https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1515072.
Nina Græger (2016) European security as practice: EU–NATO communities of
practice in the making? European Security, 25:4, 478-501

Nina Græger (2017) Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added
value of practice approaches, European Security, 26:3, 340-358

Catarina Kinnvall, Ian Manners & Jennifer Mitzen (2018) Introduction to 2018 special issue of
EuropeanSecurity: “ontological (in)security in the European Union”, European Security, 27:3, 249-
265,
Maria Mälksoo (2018) Countering hybrid warfare as ontological security
management: the emerging practices of the EU and NATO, European Security, 27:3, 374-392
Kamila Potočarová (2018) Slovak Anxiety and Europeanisation: Ontological (In)security in Slovak
Foreign Policy, The Yale Review of International Studies
Elke Krahmann (2018) The market for ontological security, European Security,
27:3, 356-373
Jennifer Mitzen (2018) Anxious community: EU as (in)security community,
European Security, 27:3, 393-413, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2018.1497985

Luis Simón (2017) Neorealism, Security Cooperation, and Europe's Relative
Gains Dilemma, Security Studies, 26:2
Pernille Rieker. Introduction: The European Neighbourhood Policy: An Instrument for Security
Community-Building, in Pernille Rieker (ed.) External Governance as Security Community Building
The Limits and Potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Pallgrave Macmillan, 2016
Assem Dandashly. The EU Quest for a Security Community with the Southern Neighbours: EU–
Tunisia Relations. in Pernille Rieker (ed.) External Governance as Security Community Building The
Limits and Potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Pallgrave Macmillan, 2016
Jozef Bátora & Pernille Rieker (2018) EU-supported reforms in the EU neighbourhood as organized
anarchies: the case of post-Maidan Ukraine, Journal of European Integration, 40:4, 461-478

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

Requirements to the exam

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Last update: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)

Syllabus

ntro session. Rules and requirements. Warm up discussion: “Transatlantic insecurities?”
Transatlantic burden sharing. EU-NATO relations
Russia as a challenge to the liberal order. Disinformation threats

Identities and threat construction. Europe’s ontological security
Security cooperation in Europe. The EU as a regional security actor.
The many faces of European energy security

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

Entry requirements

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Last update: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)

Registration requirements

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Last update: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)