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Political Geography and Geopolitics for PhD students - MPGS0103
Title: Politická geografie a geopolitika pro PGS
Czech title: Politická geografie a geopolitika pro PGS
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2021
Semester: both
E-Credits: 0
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HS]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: RNDr. Libor Jelen, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D. (16.10.2020)
• Succession of paradidms in political geography, relationships with political science, international relations and economic globalisation studies.
• Nation-state, its legitimity, effectiveness, and efficiecy. Nationalism, models of ethno-political mobilisations, examples of fragmentations of the Societ Union, Yugoslvia and Czechoslovakia, current fragmentation processes in Spain, the UK, Belgium. Ethni-territorial conflicts in develoiping countries, deviant forsm of states.
• Sub-national territorial administration and self-government – processes of decentralisation and deconcentration, integral competence – complex decision-making, specific competences – one-soded articulation of interests, vertical and horizontal co-ordination of territorial administration and self-government – relations to settlement structures and population distribution, functional fragmentation and territorial fragmentation, differences between unitary and federal states, uncertainties in socio-geographical environment of administration and self-government – needs for flexibility, flexibiliy of structures and mechanisms of divisions of competences.
• Electoral geographies. Political and territorial cleavages in modern and post-modern societies and in nation-states, changing mass values orientations – attitudes – electoral behaviour, typology of nationl party systems in Europe, interpretations of electoral geographies since the establishment of Czechoslovakia to current Czechia. Formations of regional and local elites and changes in eductation levels, cultural oreintations and political decision-making at local, regional and national levels.
• Geopolitics – evolution of geopolitics and international relationships, classical geopolitics – evolution geopolitiocal theories sice McKinder to curent theories, geopolitical transitions and geopolitical codes, neo-realist, neo-liberal and constructivist approaches and critical geopolitics.
Literature - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.03.2015)

AGNEW, J. (1994): The territorial trap: the geographical assumptions of international relations theory. Review of International Political Economy, vol. 1, No1, s. 53-80.

BARLOW, M., WASTL-WALTER, D. (eds.) (2004): New Challenges in Local and Regional Administration, Ashgate, Aldershot.

DOSTÁL, P. (2002): Territorial government and flexibility: a critical assessment. In: The Belgian Journal of Geography, vol. 3, No. 3, s. 227-241.

DOSTÁL, P. (1999): Ethnicity, mobilization and territory: an overview of recent experiences. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Geographica. vol. 34, No. 1, s. 45-58.

DOSTÁL, P., HAMPL, M. (1999): Changing local and regional government: issues of democracy, integrality and hierarchies. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Geographica, vol. 34, No. 1, s. 3-18.

FLINT, C. (2012): Introduction to geopolitics. Routledge, New York.

GELLNER, E. (1993): Národy a nacionalismus. Hříbal, Praha.

GREGORY, D., PRED, A. (eds.) (2006): Violent Geographies. Fear, Terror, and Political Violence. Routledge, New York, 390 s.

GREGORY, D., et al. (eds.) (2009): The Dictionary of Human Geography. Jon Wiley and Sons, 5th edition (příslušná obecná hesla).

HUNTINGTON, S.P. (1993): The clash of civilization? Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, No 3, s. 22- 49.

JELEN, L. (2009): Změny etnické struktury v kavkazském regionu od konce 80. let: primární statistický rozbor. Geografie, 114, č. 2, s. 130-144.

KITSCHELT, H. (1994): Social structure and collective preference formation: Opportunities for left party strategy in the 1970s and 1980s. The Transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 39 s.

KOFROŇ, J. (2012): Space and War, Constants and Change from a Historical Perspective. Geografie, 117, No. 2, s. 234-252.

O´TUATHAIL, G., DALBY, S., ROUTLEDGE, P. (2008): The geopolitics reader. Second edition. Routledge, New York, 302 s.

TAYLOR, P.J., FLINT, C. (2000): Political Geography. World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality. Prentice Hall, Harlow.

 
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