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Geopolitics and Geostrategy 1945-2000 - JPM036

Title:	Geopolitika a geostrategie 1945-2000
Guaranteed by:	Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2015 to 2019
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity:	35 / unknown (35)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
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:	PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite :	JPM127

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Annotation -

Last update: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (05.04.2008)

In this course we will continue to elaborate main theme - development of geopolitical and geostrateghical reasoning in 20th century. This time we will focus especially on problem of shaping of bipolarity from geopolitical and geostrategical perspective, especially how it was percieved in the USA and USSR and how new geopolitical dimensions - air and space were reflected.

Aim of the course -

Last update: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (05.04.2008)

Students will be acquaint with development of geopolitical thinking within monitored era and with basic interpretations of geopolitical discourse of powers of the period.

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (05.04.2008)

1. Kennedy, Paul (1996): Vzestup a pád velmocí. Lidové noviny, Praha.

2. Knutsen, Torbjorn (2005): Dějiny teorie mezinárodních vztahů. Centrum strategických studií, Brno.

3. Volner, Štefan (2004): Geopolitika pre 21. storočie? Efect Copy, Hlohovec.

4. Herman, Arthur (2004): To Rule the Waves. Harper Collins Publishers, New York.

5. Mc Evedy, Colin (2002): The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History. Penguin Books, London.

6. Haywood, John (2001): Atlas světových dějin. Slovart, Bratislava.

7. Flint, Collin (ed.)(2005): The Geography of War and Peace. Oxford University Press, New York.

Teaching methods -

Last update: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (30.01.2023)

Lecture

Syllabus -

Last update: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (05.04.2008)

1. Situation in Europe and in the World in 1930s - geopolitical connections.

2. Germany, Italy, Japan - conceptions, goals, potentiality, limitations.

3. Great Britanin and France - conceptions, goals, potentiality, limitations

4. USA and USSR - conceptions, goals, potentiality, limitations.

5. Winning and Victorious Allies - apparent and hidden dissonances of geopolitical images.

6. Geopolitical dimension of nascent bipolar confrontation - conflict of sea (and air) power against land power.

7. 1950s - new geopolitical situation in Far East and South and Southeast Asia (uprise of PRC, decolonization) and in Middle East.

8. 1960s - USSR goes out of geopolitical area of Imperial Russia - beginning of konfrontation on global scale.

9. Geopolitical implications of decolonization of Africa; conflicts in Asia and reactions of superpowers, new geopolitical environment in Europe.

10.1970s and 1980s - global confrontation of USA and USSR, oil crisis, confrontation of superpowers in world ocean.

11. Astropolitics.

12. Geopolitical consequences of disintegration of biplar system and brakeup of USSR.

13. 21st Century perspectives.