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The aim of this course is to closely follow the recent development of the Mediterranean region. The essence is to analyze the most important and problematic issues in the whole region, including Maghreb countries and Izrael. The course will follow a structure divided according to specific themes such as immigration, security, Arab Spring, the economic crisis, Greek-Turkish relations, and populism. The aim of the course is to provide a regional perspective on these issues and to show a strong connection between South European countries and their Mediterranean counterparts. Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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The main objective of the course is to enable the students to approach the whole Mediterranean region in its complexity and connectivity and to offer them a combination of a factual approach with a theoretical one. Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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Students will have an opportunity to actively participate in classes as well to develop their writing and presentation skills. For this reason, the assessments have been set as follows: 1) Presentation of the chosen topic (25%) PPT presentation of 7 slides, max. 15 minutes 2) Essay on the presentation topic (40%) Each student will write an essay of up to 10 pages on the presented topic due to 15. 6. 2025 3) Policy brief (25%) 4) Active participation (10%) A minimum of 60% is needed to pass (all the above-mentioned points have to be accomplished)
Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019
Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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viz Sylabus Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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In person teaching. All the readings are available here: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3770 Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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There is no exam. The final assignment of the course is writing an essay on the selected topic. Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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Syllabus 1) Introduction (25. 2.) – Martin Mejstřík Course description and assessment, introduction to readings and course activities, introduction to the Mediterranean region 2) Is the Mediterranean “Achilles’ heel” of Europe? (4. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík “Refugee crisis” in Mediterranean, case of Italy Reading: Pietro Castelli Gattinara. 2017. The ‘refugee crisis’ in Italy as a crisis of legitimacy, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9:3, 318–331. 3) Securitization of the region (11. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík EU response to address migration and securitisation narratives Reading: · Panebianco, Stefania. 2020. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. · Léonard, Sarah and Christian Kaunert. 2020. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 4) Italy as the heart of the Mediterranean – what is the current role of the former power? (18. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík Development of Italian foreign policy and its impact on current regional issues Reading: · Paoletti, Emmanuela. 2011. „Power Relations and International Migration: The Case of Italy and Libya“. Political Studies 59, 269-289. · Matteo Colombo & Arturo Varvelli. 2016. The Regeni case and Italy’s Mediterranean policy: a turning point?, Contemporary Italian Politics, 8:3, 277-288. 5) Are democratic regimes in danger? Threat of populism to liberal democracies (25. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík Growing populism in the Mediterranean a case of Italy Reading: · Marco Tarchi. 2015. Italy: the promised land of populism?, Contemporary Italian Politics, 7:3, 273-285. · Manuela Caiani. 2019. The populist parties and their electoral success: different causes behind different populisms? The case of the Five-star Movement and the League, Contemporary Italian Politics, 11:3, 236-250. 6) NO CLASS on April 1 7) Catalonia, Spanish or not? (8. 4.) – Martin Mejstřík Interpretation of recent political development in Catalonia towards the independence Reading: · Guibernau, Montserrat. 2013. “Secessionism in Catalonia: After Democracy”. Ethnopolitics 12 (4), 368-393. · Marti, David and Cetra, Daniel. 2016. “The 2015 Catalan election: a de facto referendum on independence?” Regional and Federal Studies 26 (1), 107-119. 8) Looking towards the radical right (15. 4.) The growing support of radical right-wing parties (Vox, Chega) in Spain and Portugal Reading: · Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, José Rama & Andrés Santana. 2020. The Baskerville's dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general elections, Political Research Exchange, 2:1. 9) Unwanted Compatriots: Minorities in Greece? (22. 4.) – Alexis Ntetorakis Reading: · Konstantinos Tsitselikis, 'The Pending Modernisation of Islam in Greece: From Millet to Minority Status', Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2007. · Jane K. Rowan, 'Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: the making of a Macedonian minority in Greece', in Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Benedicte·Dembour, Richard A. Wilson (eds.) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2001. · Lea Heyne & Luca Manucci. 2021. A new Iberian exceptionalism? Comparing the populist radical right electorate in Portugal and Spain, Political Research Exchange, 3:1. 10) Politics of History and Europeanization of the Balkans (29. 4.) – Kateřina Králová Reading: Milosevic, Ana, and Tamara Trost. Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 11) North Macedonia and its Neighbours (6. 5.) – Kateřina Králová Reading: Nimetz, Matthew. “The Macedonian ‘Name’ Dispute: The Macedonian Question—Resolved?” Nationalities Papers 48, no. 2 (March 2020): 205–14. 12) Closing seminar (13. 5.) – Martin Mejstřík Presentation of group policy papers. Last update: Mejstřík Martin, PhDr. (14.02.2025)
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