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Historical and Contemporary Geopolitical Issues in Europe - JPM113
Title: Historical and Contemporary Geopolitical Issues in Europe
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: http://sites.google.com/site/aaugeopol/home
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: prof. PhDr. Bořivoj Hnízdo, Ph.D.
Class: Courses not for incoming students
Incompatibility : JPM324, JPM738
Is incompatible with: JPM738, JPM324, JPM094
Examination dates   Schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (16.02.2015)
The course will concentrate on political processes not only of the last hundred years, which were and are visible on the political map of Europe.
Literature -
Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (30.01.2018)

Required and Recommended literature:

 

Documents:

Final Act of the Congress of Vienna-General Treaty (1815)

Brezhnev doctrine

Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf

Brussels Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-defense, March 17, 1948

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/we001.asp

Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf

The Briand Plan (1930)

Helsinky Final Act

http://www.osce.org/mc/39501?download=true

The General Act  - The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 by European Powers

Literature:

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 470 pp., Chapter 2, 7.

De Blij, H. (2010). GEOGRAPHY Realms, Regions, and Concepts. Johny Wiley and Sons.

Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4.

http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269

Hirsi,A.  (2006) Islam and the EU’s Identity Deficit, Brown Journal of World Affairs XII(1): 51-64

Michta, A.A. (2014). Putin´s irredentist project. The American Interest.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/07/29/stopping-putins-irredentist-project/

O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York.

Snyder, T. (2014). Europe and Ukraine Putin´s Project.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/timothy-snyder-about-europe-and-ukraine-putin-s-project-12898389.html

Tilly, C. (1975). The Formation of National States in Western Europe. New Jersey: Princetown University Press. Chapter 1 and 2.

Walton, N., Zielonka, J. (2013). The New Political Geography of Europe. European Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR72_POLICY_REPORT_AW.pdf

 
Recommend literature:
 

Buruma, I., A.Margalit (2002). Occidentalism. In: The New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, no. 1.

De Blij, P.Muller. (2010). Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts (14th edition). John Wiley and Sons. Nex York.
 
Sterio, M. On the Right to External Self-Determination: "Selfistans," Secession, and the Great Powers’ Rule. In Minnesota Journal of International Law. Vol 19, No.1.

Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs.

http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf

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

Simms, B. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present. 

Tunander, O., Baev, P., Einagel, V.E. (1997). Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. International Peace Research Institute.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (02.02.2019)

Written examination:

Midterm test (on 6th lecture) accounts for 20%, final exam accounts for 80% of the total grade (questions are chosen from all course lectures and required literature) reading and presentations. Multiple choice test.

Overall evaluation:

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 -
Last update: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. (11.02.2016)

The course will start with the creation of the system of nation-states, the description of the ambitions of the great European powers, and the collapse of multi-national empires. The course will continue with the political problems of inter-state relationships, border disputes and minorities questions as one of the biggest problems of European politics in the 20th Century. The other important topic will be the errection and fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe, and the ways in which the new political geography of Eastern Europe was formed. Special attention will be given to the geography of the Balcan crisis of the 1990´s. The last sessions will be about changes caused by the crisis of nation-states: problems of regionalism and the decentralisation of political powers, as well as reintegrations processes within the EU(e. g. migration and the creation of ?new? minorities).

Office hours/Konzultační hodiny:

Friday 5pm  (IEPS a GPS)

Course structure:

0.       Introduction

1.       Europe in geopolitical theories I

Reading:

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 2.

O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York.

2.      Europe in geopolitical theories II

Reading:

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 2.

O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York.

3.      Shifting geopolitics of Europe since fall of Constantinople

Reading:

Simms. Maps of territorial changes in Europe (SIS).

Final Act of the Congress of Vienna-General Treaty (1815)

Recommended:

Simms, B. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present.

4.       European Colonial History - Heart of Darkness

Reading:

General Act  - The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 by European Powers

E.J.Hobsbawm. The Age of Empire, pp. 56-83.

Recommended:

I. Buruma, A.Margalit (2002). Occidentalism. In: The New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, no. 1.

5.       European territorial changes between 1914-1945

Reading:

Maps of geopolitical changes in Europe between 1914 - 1945 (SIS).

6.      PG of Europe - European regional division

Reading: 

De Blij, P.Muller. (2010). Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts (14th edition). John Wiley and Sons. Nex York. Chapter 1 (pp. 38 - 98).

Walton, N., Zielonka, J. (2013). The New Political Geography of Europe. European Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR72_POLICY_REPORT_AW.pdf

7.    Post-1945 geopolitics of Europe

Readings:

Brezhnev doctrine

Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf

Helsinky Final Act

http://www.osce.org/mc/39501?download=true

8.    European integration process/Disintegration tendencies in Europe I.

Reading:

The Marshall Speech (5 June 1947)

http://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm

A union, not a unity: The Briand Memorandum

http://www.ellopos.net/politics/briand-union.htm

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 7.

9.    European integration process/Disintegration tendencies in Europe II.

Reading:

The Marshall Speech (5 June 1947)

http://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm

A union, not a unity: The Briand Memorandum

http://www.ellopos.net/politics/briand-union.htm

Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 7.

Recommended:

Primary documents (treaties) of the EU, available at: http://europa.eu/eu-law/treaties/index_en.htm

10. European identity - New minorities in Europe - Languages and immigration in Europe I.

Reading:

Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4.

http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269

Recommended:

Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs.

http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf

11. European identity - New minorities in Europe - Religion and immigration in Europe II.

Reading:

Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4.

http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269

Recommended:

Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs.

http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf

12.  Geopolitics of contemporary and 21st Europe I

Reading:

Motyl, A.J. (2014). Putin´s Trap: Why Ukraine Should Withdraw from Russian-Held Donbas.

Snyder, T. (2014). Europe and Ukraine Putin’s Project. 16.04.2014

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/timothy-snyder-about-europe-and-ukraine-putin-s-project-12898389.html

Recommended:

Tunander, O., Baev, P., Einagel, V.E. (1997). Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. International Peace Research Institute.

13.  Final test

Entry requirements
Last update: RIEGL (23.09.2011)

none.

 
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