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The course provides the students with a basic overview of regional security with an enhanced focus on European and transatlantic security. Course participants will be introduced to some of the key concepts and problems discussed in the field of regional security studies. They will also gain some empirical knowledge of regional security cooperation outside of the European/Western context and will learn to adopt a comparative regionalist perspective. This will enable students to critically evaluate the similarities and differences in regional security challenges, political and cultural legacies, concomitant path dependencies, and the ensuing trajectories of the local institution building efforts. Lectures and discussions with practitioners will alternate throughout the semester.
Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.09.2024)
Aim of the course
The primary aim of the course is to introduce the students to the research and policy agenda of regional security. The students should be provided with conceptual and theoretical tools that can help them examine security cooperation in individual regions during later stages of their academic and/or professional careers. A secondary objective is to stimulate the development of reading, writing, debating, and critical thinking skills.
Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.09.2024)
Literature
Buzan, Barry & Wæver, Ole (2003): Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moller, Sara Bjerg (2023): NATO at 75: The Perils of Empty Promises. Survival, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 91-118.
Katzenstein. Peter J. ed. (1996): The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.
Lundestad, Geir (1999): ‘Empire by Invitation’ in the American Century. Diplomatic History. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 189-217.
Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1996): Ukraine's Critical Role in the Post-Soviet Space. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 20, pp. 3-8.
Alberque, William & Schreer, Benjamin (2022): What Kind of NATO Allies Will Finland and Sweden Be? Survival, Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 123-136.
Börzel, Tanja A. & Risse, Thomas (2019): Grand theories of integration and the challenges of comparative regionalism. Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 1231-1252.
Neumann, Iver B. & Wigen, Einar (2018): The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2018 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Valbjørn, Morten & Lawson, Fred H. (eds.): International Relations of the Middle East (Volume III): The Role of Ideas and Identities in Middle East International Relations. London: SAGE.
Heisbourg, François (2021): Euro-Atlantic Security and the China Nexus. Survival, Vol. 63, No. 6, pp. 45-62.
Calinoff, Jordan & Gordon, David (2020): Port Investments in the Belt and Road Initiative: Is Beijing Grabbing Strategic Assets? Survival, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 59-80.
Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
Requirements to the exam
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Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.09.2024)
Syllabus
Intro, Regional Complexes, and Security Communities
NATO and the United States
The Enlargement
Russia as the Other
The Eastern Flank
Economy and the EU
Indo-Pacific
Infrastructure
Demographics, Culture, and Identity
Middle East and North Africa
Wrap-up
Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)
Entry requirements
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Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.09.2024)
Registration requirements
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Last update: Halás Matúš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.09.2024)
