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Political Geography - MZ340P95
Title: Politická geografie
Czech title: Politická geografie
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2010 to 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 50
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D.
RNDr. Jiří Tomeš, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (15.02.2022)
One semester course of political geography divided into two thematic blocks. The key notions of state, nation and ethnicity are addressed in the first block. Building on the first part of the course the second block is concerned with political and cultural processes at the regional and local level in a historical perspective.
Literature - Czech
Last update: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

DOSTÁL, P. (1993): Ethnonationalism in the former Soviet Union and successor regimes: juggling with options. In: J. O´Loughlin and H. van der Wusten (eds.) New Political Geography of Eastern Europe. Belhaven Press, London, s. 89-114.

DOSTÁL, P. (1998): The Czech-Slovak Division. Lessons of an unsuccessful federal state-building. Conference on The Nation Building and the State Building in the Post-Soviet Geopolitical Space. Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Open Society Institute, Moscow, 38 s.

DOSTÁL, P. (1998): Early post-communist transformation in twenty-five states. In: H.H. van der Wusten (ed.) Transformation Processes in Eastern Europe. Den Haag: NWO, s. 29-49.

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

DOSTÁL, P., BLAŽEK, J. (1992): Geografické aspekty státní správy v Nizozemsku. In: Sborník České Geografické Společnosti, Vol. 97, No. 2, s. 97-106.

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.

HUNTINGTON, S. (1993): The clash of civilizations? In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3, s. 22-49.

KREJČÍ, J. (2002): Sémantická problematika, Etnopolitická struktura současné Evropy, Typologie etnopolitických vztahů ve světovém měřítku. In: J. Krejčí: Postižitelné proudy dějin. Slon, Praha, s. 238-259.

TOMEŠ, J. (2000): Geopolitika: nástroj a proces politické organizace prostoru. In: P. Jehlička et al. (eds.) Stát, prostor, politika; vybrané otázky politické geografie. PřF UK, katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje, Praha, s. 151-179.

MANN, M. (1997): The Autonomous Power of the State. In: J. Agnew (ed.): Political Geography. A Reader, Arnold, London, s. 58-80.

TAYLOR, P., FLINT, C. (2000): Political Geography. World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality. Fourth edition, Prentice-Hall, Harlow (chapter Progressive places, s. 325-367).

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

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Zápočet: seminární práce v rozsahu min. 5 stran

Zkouška: ústní zkouška

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (15.02.2022)

Contents:

1. Introductory lecture

2. State, territory, national identity and sovereignity

3. Geopolitics: tool and process

4. Globalisation and the wave of democratisation in post-communist countries

5. Administration and self-administration and territory

6. Reforms of the administration and self-administration in the Netherlands

7. Geography of nationalism and ethnic conflicts

8. Political geography of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union

9. Geography of election

10. Political geography of the division of Czechoslovakia

11. Discussion on the given themes

 
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