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The aim of the course is to present key cultural, societal and political events and processes that shaped the fate of European states, including Czech lands, later Czechoslovakia and now Czech Republic, which have often been at the epicenter of European politics, though mostly as mere objects of great-power relations. Over the course of the semester the students will become familiar with a number of various concepts that continue to be important and influential today and help understand current realities. Students will be able to understand these concepts and their various meanings, and analyze and interpret them in various contexts. Upon a successful completion of this course the student will have a good orientation in the historical context on European level. The student is led to think independently and interdisciplinary. |
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Readings collected in class reader:
Agnew, Hugh. 2004. The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Stanford: Hoover Press. Ash, Garton Timothy. 1990. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague. Random House. Charter of the United Nations Chropovský, Bohuslav. 1989. The Slavs. Prague. Fukuyma, Francis. 1989. The End of History? National Interest. Harrison, M. Hope. 2003. The Berlin Wall, Ostpolitik, and détente, GHI Bulletin Supplement 1. Hupchick, Dennis. P.; Cox, Harold E. 1996. A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. New York. Huntington, Samuel. 1993. The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993. Kennedy, Paul. 1989. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Vintage Books. Kissinger, Henry. 1994. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994 Novák, Miroslav. 2010. The Czech Party System and Democracy: The Quest for Stability, pp. 207-228. In Lawson, Kay. Political Parties and Democracy, Volume II: Europe. Praeger Publishers Pánek, Jaroslav; Tůma, Oldřich. 2009. A History of the Czech Lands. Prague. Renan, Ernst. 1882. What is a Nation? The Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950 Szczerbiak, Aleks and Paul Taggart. 2002. Theorising Party-Based Euroscepticism: Problems of Definition, Measurement and Causality. SEI Working Paper No 69, European Parties Elections and Referendums Network Working Paper No 12.
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Attendance, class preparation and participation are mandatory Integrative project based on independent research if based 40% on the course, or a compatible course project Portfolio (including essays/comments about movies and excursions) 30% Short quizzes, mid term and final exam 30% |
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Last update: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
European and Global Contexts
WEEK 2
1. Where is the heart of Europe?
Changing political definition of Central Europe and its geographical and geological determination
Central Europe as a meeting point of diverse language groups
Spread of Christianity, Otonians and the birth of the Holy Roman Empire
Premyslids; Consequences of the conflicts of Papal and Imperial ambitions
2. Luxemburgs, Bohemian Lands, France and Holy Roman Empire
WEEK 3
3. Early reformation and first liberal concepts of statehood and European integrity
Renovation of the kingdom under Jagiellonian dynasty
4. Reformation, Humanism, Recatolisation
Ideas and Ideologies: Church, Nation and State
WEEK 4
5. EXCURSION to the Prague Castle
6. The Thirty Years War, Rationalism and Enlightened Absolutism: Marie Therese and Joseph II.
WEEK 5
7. Europe and the World after the Congress of Vienna
System of balance of power
Major powers in Europe
Readings: Kennedy 1989 introduction
8. Era of Nationalism
Nations and nationalism
Readings: Renan 1882
Central Europe in its Diversity: Transitions and Alternatives, Contacts and Conflicts; Czechs and their Neighbors
WEEK 6
9. Europe and the World at the Turn of Centuries
Colonial Expansion
Forming alliances
Readings: Kennedy 1989 I
10. Great War (WW1)
Causes and course of the war
Results and consequences of the war
Readings: Kennedy 1989 II
WEEK 7
11. Versailles System of Power
New world order and its problems
Readings: Kissinger I
12. Inter-war Period
International politics in the 1930s
Nazi aggression, policy of appeasement
Readings: Kissinger II
WEEK 9
13. The Second World War
Causes and outbreak of the war
Readings: Agnew 2004, chapter 12
14. Czech Lands under the Nazi Occupation
EXCURSION: visit to the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
Readings: Pánek, Tůma 2009
Revolution and Social Change
WEEK 10
15. New World Order and the East-West Division
New superpowers
Cold war
MIDTERM EXAM
Readings: Kissinger III
16. Communism in Europe
Ideology of communism
Attempts to reform communism
Readings: Agnew 2004, chapters 13 and 14
WEEK 11
17. Communism in Czechoslovakia
MOVIE: KRÁL ŠUMAVY (SMUGGLERS OF DEATH, 1959)
18. Czechoslovakia at Wars
EXCURSION: The Army Museum Žižkov
WEEK 12
19. Europe and the World during the Cold War
Course of the cold war
Major conflicts
Readings: Harrison 2003
20. Process of the European Integration
Roots of the European integration
European idea
Readings: Schuman declaration, and Szczerbiak, Taggart 2002
Memory and Forgetting; Biographies and Oral History
WEEK 13
21. Between Détente and Armament
Towards the end of the Cold war
Readings: Kennedy III
22. Breakdown of the Communist Block
Causes of the collapse of the Eastern Block
Readings: Fukuyama 1989
Landscapes: Real and Imaginary
WEEK 14
23. Changing Landscape of European politics
Transition to Democracy in Europe: theory and practice
Readings: Ash 1989
24. Changing Landscape of German Politics
MOVIE: "GOOD BYE, LENIN" (2003)
Transitions and Alternatives of the Future
WEEK 15
25. Building New Democracies
Creating new party systems: a Case of Czechoslovakia
Readings: Novák 2010
26. The Šumava Trip
EXCURSION: on the track of the King of Šumava
WEEK 16
27. Victory of Liberal Democracy ?
Current challenges to liberal democracy
Readings: Huntington 1993
28. Final Test and final presentations |
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Last update: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
The subject is taught by the experts from UJOP. You can find more details including the timetable of the course on http://it.pedf.cuni.cz/socrates/index.php?link=32〈=en. If you want to be enrolled in the course please contact immediatelly by e-mail Mrs Stanislava Vlckova (stanislava.vlckova@pedf.cuni.cz). |