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The master course Current challenges in Europe was especially designed for the European Politics and Society – Václav Havel Joint Master Programme and is a part of obligatory EPS courses. It consists mainly of guest lectures delivered by guest lecturers from Partner universities, Charles University academics, associated partners representatives and experts giving the students a multidimensional perspective (academic and non-academic) on current challenges Europe and European Union have been recently facing.
The course will be held in Jinonice in the room B103 Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (22.09.2023)
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The goal of this subject is to introduce the current challenges in Europe. Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (22.09.2023)
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Final paper – 8-10 pages, students may choose from different lecture topics, deadline for topic upload: 30/11/2024, deadline for submission January 15, 2025. The Final Paper (60 points) will be evaluated based on the following rubric:
All documents will be uploaded to moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15786 Course evaluation: A - "výborně - A" - "excellent - A" For more detail on evaluation system see the Dean´s provision https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018aj Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2024)
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Articles and book chapters (20-40 pages/week) available on moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5468 Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (22.09.2023)
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The course will be held in Jinonice in the room B103 Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (22.09.2023)
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4/10 Introduction + Cleavages in Europe: religious, ethnic, economic, social Discussion about main cleavages in European society and their changes in recent years Kriesi, H., Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New Cleavage Based on Values, West European Politics, 33:3, 2010, pp. 673-685. Minkenberg, M., Religion and Euroscepticism: Cleavages, Religious Parties and Churches in EU Member States, West European Politics, 32:6, 2009, pp. 1190-1211. 11/10 Green Politics of the EU Where has the European Green Deal (EGD) its origin? What is so revolutionary about the EGD (if any)? What are the challenges related to EU climate policy? Jordan, A., Gravey, V. and Adelle, C. (2021). EU Environmental Policy at 50: Retrospect and Prospect. In Jordan, A. and Gravey, V. (eds) Environmental Policy in the EU: Actors, Institutions and Processes. (Routledge), pp. 357-374. 18/10 Democratic Consolidation and Backsliding This session aims to theoretically and empirically explore and understand the dynamics and changes in European democracy. Bogaards, M. (2018). De-democratization in Hungary: Diffusely Defective Democracy, Democratization. 25(8), 1481-1499. Lührmann. A & Lindberg, S. I. (2019) A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?, Democratization, 26(7), 1095-1113. 1/11 Guest Lecture from Taiwan Special lecture on disinformation and fake news delivered by Chen-Ling Hung (National Taiwan University) 8/11 Post-communist countries: a successful transformation? Discussion about how the post-communist countries performed during the process of transformation towards democracy and how they are doing now. Kitschelt, H., Mansfeldová, Z., Post-Communist Party Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 19-42. Ágh, A., Increasing europopulism as a megatrend in East Central Europe: from facade democracies to velvet dictatorship, Baltic Journal of Political Science, Vol. 5, 2016, pp. 21-39. 15/11 European Left: what happened after the end of the welfare state? Discussion about the development of left-wing ideologies in the 21st century. Císař, O., The Left in the beginning of the 21st century, in Kopeček, L., Trajectories of the Left. Social Democratic and Ex-Communist Parties in Contemporary Europe: Between Past and Future, Brno: CDK, 2005, pp. 11-28. March, L., Radical Left Success before and after Great Recession, in March, L. and D. Keith, Europe´s Radical Right: From Marginality to Mainstream?, London: Rowman, 2016, pp. 27-50. 22/11 Current Populism in Europe Discussion about main populist topics and actors in contemporary Europe Kriesi, Hanspeter. 2014. "The Populist Challenge". West European Politics 37, 2, 361-378. Mudde, Cas. 2004. „The Populist Zeitgeist“. Government and Opposition 39, 4: 542-563. 29/11 Climate and related securities and Europe What is the climate security? What kind of climate security and related risks does Europe concentrate on? How does the climate security of the EU influence the climate security of the world?– Eliška Ullrichová Kuzemko, C. et al. (2022). Russia's War on Ukraine, European Energy Policy Responses & Implications for Sustainable Transformations. Energy Research & Social Science 93, pp. 1-8. 6/12 EU-Russia Relations Since 2014 Guest lecture from Maxine David (Leiden University) Siddi, M., The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine, Journal of European Integration, 2022, 44:6, pp. 893-898. 13/12 Migration to Europe: challenges and opportunities Discussion about main national and EU approaches towards different types of migration to Europe Mathias Czaika, Marta Bivand Erdal & Cathrine Talleraas (2023) Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49:12, 3140-3161 Erik Snel, Özge Bilgili & Richard Staring (2021) Migration trajectories and transnational support within and beyond Europe, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47:14. 20/12 Final session + discussion with a representative of Czech state institution Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (26.09.2024)
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