Geopolitical Threats in the Contemporary World - JPB265

• Title: Geopolitical Threats in the Contemporary World
• Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / 30 (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.; Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D.; doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (23.11.2021)

Kurz představuje současné hrzoby spojené s duální transformací moci 21.století. Transice moci od státu k nestátním aktérům a přesun geopolitického a geoekonomického těžiště moci ze Západu do prostoru Indického oceánu. Porozumění podstatě těchto procesů i hrozeb je s nimi spojen a klíčem k celkovému porozumění současného světa.

Aim of the course

English

Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)

Aim of the course is to present threats connected to the double transition of the 21st century geopolitics. The first is transition of power from state to non-state actors, the second is shift of geopolitical and geoeconomic centre from the West to the Indian Ocean region. Understanding the nature of these processes as well as threats connected to them is a key to comprehensive understanding of the contemporary world.

Czech

Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)

Kurz představuje současné hrzoby spojené s duální transformací moci 21.století. Transice moci od státu k nestátním aktérům a přesun geopolitického a geoekonomického těžiště moci ze Západu do prostoru Indického oceánu. Porozumění podstatě těchto procesů i hrozeb je s nimi spojen a klíčem k celkovému porozumění současného světa.

Literature

English

Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (12.09.2016)

Brzezinski, Z. (2012): Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. New York: Basic Books. 224 pp. ISBN: 046502954X.

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 470 pp. ISBN: 074255676X.

Criekemans, D. Geopolitical Schools of Thoughts: a concise overview from 1890 till 2015, and beyond.

De Blij, H. (2010). The Power of Place. Geography, Destiny, and Globalization´s Rough Landscape. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Flint, C. (2006). Introduction to Geopolitics. New York: Routledge.

Ó Tuathail, G., Simon Dalby, S., and P. Routledge (2003). The Geopolitics Reader. London and New York: Routledge.

Kaplan, R.D. (2012). The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate. New York: Ramson House. 224 pp. ISBN: 046502954X.

Kaplan, R.D. (2009). The Revenge of Geography.

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4712_sum09/materials/Kaplan%202009%20Revenge%20of%20Geography.pdf

Kaplan, R. D. (2011). Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Random House. 384 pp. Chapter 15.

Nye, Joseph S. (2011). Future of Power. New York: Public Affairs. 320 pp. ISBN: 1610390695.

 

 

Websites:

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council

http://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf

Sustaining U.S.Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense

http://www.defense.gov/news/defense_strategic_guidance.pdf

A cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower

http://www.navy.mil/maritime/Maritimestrategy.pdf

FERGUSON, N. (2009). The Axis of Upheaval. In Foreign Policy.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/02/16/the_axis_of_upheaval

MOORE, C.C. II. (2011). Revitalizing the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/parameters/Articles/2011summer/Moore.pdf

Czech

Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (12.09.2016)

Brzezinski, Z. (2012): Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. New York: Basic Books. 224 pp. ISBN: 046502954X.

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 470 pp. ISBN: 074255676X.

Criekemans, D. Geopolitical Schools of Thoughts: a concise overview from 1890 till 2015, and beyond.

De Blij, H. (2010). The Power of Place. Geography, Destiny, and Globalization´s Rough Landscape. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Flint, C. (2006). Introduction to Geopolitics. New York: Routledge.

Ó Tuathail, G., Simon Dalby, S., and P. Routledge (2003). The Geopolitics Reader. London and New York: Routledge.

Kaplan, R.D. (2012). The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate. New York: Ramson House. 224 pp. ISBN: 046502954X.

Kaplan, R.D. (2009). The Revenge of Geography.

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4712_sum09/materials/Kaplan%202009%20Revenge%20of%20Geography.pdf

Kaplan, R. D. (2011). Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Random House. 384 pp. Chapter 15.

Nye, Joseph S. (2011). Future of Power. New York: Public Affairs. 320 pp. 

 

Websites:

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council

http://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf

Sustaining U.S.Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense

http://www.defense.gov/news/defense_strategic_guidance.pdf

A cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower

http://www.navy.mil/maritime/Maritimestrategy.pdf

FERGUSON, N. (2009). The Axis of Upheaval. In Foreign Policy.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/02/16/the_axis_of_upheaval

MOORE, C.C. II. (2011). Revitalizing the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/parameters/Articles/2011summer/Moore.pdf

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (11.05.2020)

1) final test (multiple-choince) (at least one term will be offered in July and September, also due to the current travel restriction there will be one distant term via Moodle)/50%

2) Seminar: a) active participation (all seminars), 2) group presentation/50%

 

The final assessment is marked as following:

100 % - 91 % ...A

90 % - 81 % ... B

80 % - 71 % ... C

70 % - 61 % ... D

60 % - 51 % ... E

Less than 50 % ... F

Syllabus

English

Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (23.11.2021)

I.                lectures

1.     Introduction (definitions, terms, 21st-century power transfer and diffusion, state vs. non-state threats, geopolitical threats and their perceptions, threats forecast)

2.     Geopolitics in theories (after the Cold War) and eras of geopolitics

3.    Geopolitics of flashpoint and restive regions

4.    Geopolitics and Geoeconomics in 21st century

5.    Geopolitics of rising regional hegemons (the US and the world, China and Asia, Turkey and the Middle East, Russia and EU´s disintegration)

6.    Geopolitics of resources and resource conflicts (crude oil, natural gas, water)

II.                 Seminars

7.   Seminar - Migration (Teichopolitics)

·         Africa, Middle East, and Europe

·         Forms of migration

·         Migration and globalization

·         Refugee camps 

8.     Seminar - Drug wars (Greed and Grievance)

·         Latin America

·         Afghanistan and S-E Asia

·         Drugs and militant groups – ideology x money

·         Drugs and state failure

9.    Seminar - Weapons of mass destruction (M.A.D. in the 21st Century)

·         North Korea, Iran

·         (Non-)proliferation

·         WMD and terrorism

·         WMD and balance of power

10.    Seminar - Energy (Energy Security)

·         Russia

·         Climate change as a geopolitical threat

·         Resource curse

·         Geopolitics of non-renewable resources

11.    Seminar - Terrorism (Conceptualization)

·         Islamic terrorism

·         Other terrorism

·         Middle East

·         Terrorism and state failure

12.    Seminar - China (Thukydides Trap)

·         South China Sea

·         Power shift to East

·         String of Perils and One Belt One Road

·         Chinese foreign strategy

week 1: intorduction

week 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O5xn24okoOv3PxzMdlJtykMXxI6jibrd/view

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (29.11.2022)

I.                lectures

1.     Introduction (definitions, terms, 21st-century power transfer and diffusion, state vs. non-state threats, geopolitical threats and their perceptions, threats forecast)

2.     Geopolitics in theories (after the Cold War) and eras of geopolitics

3.    Geopolitics of flashpoint and restive regions

4.    Geopolitics and Geoeconomics in 21st century

5.    Geopolitics of rising regional hegemons (the US and the world, China and Asia, Turkey and the Middle East, Russia and EU´s disintegration)

6.    Geopolitics of resources and resource conflicts (crude oil, natural gas, water)

II.                 Seminars

7.   Seminar - Migration

a) Theories of migration, teichopolitics

b) Main global migration flows, refugee camps around the world

c) Migration and security

8.     Seminar - Narcotics

a) Resources and conflicts, greed and grievance

b) Drug trade, geopolitics and security in Latin America

c) Drug trade, geopolitics and security in South and South-East Asia

9.    Seminar - Weapons of mass destruction

a) WMDs - types and risks

b) WMDs and states - M.A.D., usefulness and limits

c) WMDs and non-state actors - usefulness and limits

10.    Seminar - Energy

a) Energy security, sources of energy, green transition

b) Risks to exporters - case of Russia

c) Risks to importers - case of EU

11.    Seminar - Terrorism

a) Definition and historical development

b) Religious terrorism

c) Other forms of terrorism, state terrorism (?)

12.    Seminar - China

a) Great power competition, Thukydides Trap

b) China and economic tools of power

c) China and military and cultural tools of power

Entry requirements

English

Last update: RIEGL (30.03.2012)

none.

Czech

Last update: RIEGL (30.03.2012)

Žádné.