The course will analyze the so-called Anglosphere, its origins and significance in international politics. Anglosphere is a broader term than Anglo-Saxon civilization (which refers to countries of Anglo-Saxon descendents) as it includes all English-speaking countries that were influenced by the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. It embraces populations of countries which have much in common - language, culture and values, democratic traditions and political and legal institutions which enable them to form some sort of closer association. Thus, the course will focus on the relationship between the Anglospheric countries, their foreign policies and will analyze security, political, cultural and economic links between them. It will also include several case studies.
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There will be one lecture provided outside of the normal Schedule. Location and time TBA
Literatura
Poslední úprava: MIKESA (20.09.2011)
*** PLEASE NOTE***** There will be one lecture provided outside of the normal Schedule. Location and time TBA
Reading
Bell Coral. 1988. Dependant Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy. Melbourne, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Bennett James C. 2004. The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century. Rowman & Littlefield.
Bridge Carl. 1991. "Special relationships": Australia, Britain and United States since 1941. London: University of London.
Bowring, Philip. 2003. ?What is it about Anglophones? Britain, Australia and the U.S.? International Herald Tribune, 27 March 2003.
Croci Osvaldo. 2003. ?A closer look at the changing transatlantic relationship?. In: European Foreign Affairs Review 8: 469-491. Kluwer Law International.
Crystal David. 2003. English as a Global Language. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Ferguson Niall. 2007. Britské impérium: Cesta k modernímu světu. Prostor.
Gelber, Harry G. 1966. Australia, Britain and the EEC 1961-63. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Marshall P.J. (ed.) 1996. British Empire. Cambridge.
Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: MIKESA (18.09.2012)
Lecture and Seminars Lectures and seminars:
All students are also expected to have completed the allocated readings and/or assignments before each seminar. all materials are available online at www.dl.cuni.cz
Assessment and requirements Assessment will be based on- one review of a required reading, one oral presentation, a written version of the presentation (essay!) and a final exam. Students should be present at least 70% of the lectures and seminars.
The final grade is a combination of the following items: Review of required reading - one page summary of article from syllabus= 20% Oral presentation (40 min long) & essay (2,000-2,500 words) = 60% of the total grade Final written exam = 20% of the total grade.
Course overview
1. Introduction to the topic, the term Anglosphere a. Advocates: James C. Bennett, Conrad Black i. Bennett James C. 2004. The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations will Lead the Way in the 21st Century. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ii. Bennett James C. 2002. An Anglosphere Primer [www.anglosphere.institute.org/record.jsp?type=pamphlet&id=2]. iii. Black Conrad. 1999. ?Britain?s Atlantic option: and America?s stake?. The National Interest, Spring: 15. iv. Bowring, Philip. 2003. ?What is it about Anglophones? Britain, Australia and the U.S.? International Herald Tribune, 27 March 2003. 2. Historical origins a. Anglo-Saxons &The British Empire i. Marshall P.J. (ed.) 1996. British Empire. Cambridge. (not electronic) ii. Crystal D. and Foster J. 1984. Anglo-Saxons. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data (not electronic) iii. Mandel Daniel. 2005. The ?secret? history of the Anglosphere. Institute of Public Affairs Review. Presentations: Importance of India for British Empire, Scramble for Africa 3. Cultural bonds, traditions, common values, colonialism a. British Colonial Government i. Marshall P.J. (ed.) 1996. British Empire. Cambridge. ii. Crystal David. 2003. English as a global language. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.(google scholar) b. Question of language, colonialism i. Crystal David. 2003. English as a global language. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. (google scholar) ii. Krugman Paul. 1999. ?Want growth? Speak English. That certain je sais quoi of les Anglophones?. Fortune magazine (April). Presentations: Use of English in Africa and America 4. Security relations, common interventions (security dilemma, anarchy) a. The military imperative of British Empire i. Marshall P.J. (ed.) 1996. British Empire. Cambridge b. Security issues in 20th Century i. Kagan Robert. 2003. ?America?s Crisis of Legitimacy?. Foreign Affairs 83:2 (March/April 2003). ii. Gordon Philip. 2006. ?The End of Bush Revolution?. Foreign Affairs Jul/Aug 2006: 85:4. iii. Bacevick A. 2009. The War We Can´t Win: Afghanistan & the Limits of American Power. Commonweal, Aug. 14 2009. iv. Economist. 2009. From Insurgency to insurrection (cover story). The Economist 8/22/2009, Vol. 392, Issue 8648, p21-23. v. Leithner Chris. 2003. ?The Terror Trap?. Policy vol. 19 (Autumn), no.1: 34-36. vi. Hunter Robert. 2004. A forward-looking Partnership. Foreign Affairs 82:5:14-18. Presentations: War in Iraq and the Coalition of the Willing 5. Economic relations, historical perspective a. Economic imperative of British Empire and Commonwealth i. Marshall P.J. (ed.) 1996. British Empire. Cambridge ii. Robertson Paul L. and Singleton John. 2001. ?The Commonwealth as an Economic Network?. Australian Economic History Review, Vol.41, No.3: 241- 266. iii. Robertson Paul L. and Singleton John. 2002. Economic relations between Britain and Australasia 1945-1970. Palgrave, New York. (not electronic) b. Similar trends and economic cooperation of Anglospheric countries i. United Kingdom Country Profile, 2006, p12-17 ii. Pastor Robert. 2004. North America?s Second Decade. Foreign Affairs. Jan/Feb2004: 83:1. iii. Neumann Sabina, Egan Michelle. 1999. Between German and Anglo-Saxon Capitalism: The Czech Financial Markets in Transition. New Political Economy; Jul1999, Vol.4 Issue 2, p 173, 22p. Presentations: British-American and Canadian-American economic relations, cooperation at the WTO, current financial crisis and the impact on Anglosphere 6. Special relations - bilateral perspective, British-American relations a. Historical background i. John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four centuries of British American relations (Library of Congress) [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/] Accessed 10/08/2007. ii. Stephen Spender. 1974. Love-hate relations: a study of Anglo-American sensibilities. London: Hamish Hamilton. (not electronic) b. Is there a threat to the special relationship? i. Freedman, Lawrence D. 2006. ?The Special Relationship, Then and Now?. Foreign Affairs May/Jun 2006:85:3. ii. Dobson Alan. 1995. Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century: of friendship, conflict and the rise and decline of superpowers (not in the National Library) iii. Engdahl, William. 2004. A century of war: Anglo-American oil politics and the new world order. London: Pluto Press. [review online- book in library] Presentations: American Revolution, Anglo-American Relations in the Post-Cold War Period 7. Anglosphere and Russia a. Russia and Britain i. Historical Rivalry Amstutz Bruce. 1986. Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation. Washington D.C. NGU Press. ii. Litvinenko case: The Economist July 21st-27th 2007 (plus articles available electronically). b. Russia and US, Russia and Canada i. Legvold, Robert. 2009. The Russia File: How to Move Toward a Strategic Partnership. Foreign Affairs July/August 2009. ii. O´Loughlin J., Ó Tuathail G., Kolossov V. 2004. Russian geopolitical storylines and public opinion in the wake of 9-11: a critical geopolitical analysis and national survey. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 31 (2004) 281-318. iii. Zvonovsky Vladimir. The New Russian Identity and the United States. Democratizatsiya. iv. Monaghan Andrew. 2006. ´Calmly critical´: Evolving Russian Views of US hegemony. The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 29No. 6, 987-1013, December 2006. c. Russia and EU i. Gheciu A. 2009. International Responses to the Russian Proposal for a New European Security. GSPIA, University of Ottawa. (not available) Presentations: Energy Security and Dependence on Russia 8. Great Britain and its current position in Europe a. Britain and the EC, De Gaulle i. Chisholm Michael.1995. Britain on the edge of Europe. London, New York: Routledge. (not electronic) b. Thatcher, Major, Blair i. Jenkins P. 1988. Mrs Thatcher?s Revolution. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. ii. [Sully Melanie. The New Politics of Tony Blair] (not electronic) c. Transatlantic relations i. Croci Osvaldo. 2003. ?A closer look at the changing transatlantic relationship?. In: European Foreign Affairs Review 8: 469-491. Kluwer Law International. (online access) ii. Robert Kagan. 2003. Of Paradise and power. New York. Vintage press. (not electronic) iii. Robert Kagan. 2004. Power and Weakness. In: Policy Review. iv. Blacker C. 2007. US-European Relations After Iraq; An American Perspective. Stanford University. v. Arthur Rachwald. 2004. Transatlantic relations: The view from Europe. McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1. Presentations: De Gaullism, Thatcherism 9. United States, its position and US-UN Relations (international system, hegemony, anarchy, international conflict) a. Position of the US, Anti-Americanism i. Hodgson Geodfrey. 2003. Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism. ITEAS Lecture (11/11/2003). University of Dundee. ii. Mansbach Richard. The World Turned Upside Down. Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Student News Review Vol.1 Issue 3 May 2007. iii. Brown B. 2006. A review essay of Anti-Americanism in Europe by Russell Berman. A cultural problem. In: American Foreign Policy Interest, p87. iv. Drath, Viola Herms. 2006. Toward a New Atlanticism. In: American Foreign Policy Interests; Dec2006, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p425-431. v. Leonard Eric. 2007. A case study in declining American Hegemony: Flawed Policy Concerning the ICC. The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations - Win/Spring 2007. vi. Niall Ferguson. 2005. Colossus: The Price of America?s Empire. ISBN: 80-7363-026-5. (not electronic) b. US-UN Relations i. Finkelstein Lawrence. 2006. The Rule of Law, the United States, and the United Nations: An Ambiguous Record. In: American Foreign Policy Interest, 28: 297-303 ii. Weiss Thomas. 2006. US-UN relations and the Use of Force after the World Summit. In: American Foreign Policy Interests (AFPI), 28:305-309. c. US Missile Defense i. Moeckli Daniel. 2007. US Missile Defense: A strategic Challenge for Europe. CSS Analysis in Security Policy: 2:12 (April 2007). ii. International Affairs and Defense Section, House of Commons. 2001. ?11 Sept 2001: Response?. UK House of Commons Library Research Papers. Presentations: Missile Defence System, US-UN Relationship America and Islam, China: Friend of Foe?, China, Iran, North Korea, Taiwan, Israel-Palestinian conflict 10. British-Australian relations, Australia?s position in Asia (theoretical approach) a. The development of the relationship after 1945 i. Bell Coral. 1988. Dependant Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy. Melbourne, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. (not electronic) ii. Gelber, Harry G. 1966. Australia, Britain and the EEC 1961-63. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.(not electronic) iii. McGregor Russell. 2006. The necessity of Britishness: ethno-cultural roots of Australian nationalism. In: Nations and Nationalism 12 (3), 2006, 493-511. iv. Greenwood, Gordon. 1957. Australia?s triangular foreign policy. Foreign Affairs Jul 1957: 35: 4. v. Grant Bruce. Toward a new Balance in Asia. Foreign Affairs Jul 1969: 47: 4. Presentations: Australian Republicanism, Australia?s position in Asia 11. Canadian-American relations, Canada and transatlantic relations b. Canadian-American relations i. Marie Bernard-Meunier, Les relations transatlantiques se conjugant-elles au passé in Policy Options, February 2005 p77-81. c. Canada does not belong to Anglosphere: why? i. Haglund, Canada and the Anglosphere: in, out or indifferent? In Policy Options February 2005 p 72-76 ii. Holmes John W. 2004. Growing independence in Canadian-American Relations. Foreign Affairs. Presentations: Canadian Nationality, Position in the Transatlantic Relations, Canadian-Russian Relations (Arctic region) 12. Case studies: d. New Zealand e. Ireland i. Alan J. Werd. 1969. Ireland and Anglo-American relations 1899-1921. University of Toronto Press. (not electronic) ii. Northern Ireland f. South Africa i. James Barber, John Barratt. 1990. South Africa?s Foreign Policy: the search for status and security 1945-1988. Cambridge University Press. g. India i. Nandan, Nilehani. 2009. Imagining India: the Idea of Renewed Nation. Penguin. (not electronic) Presentations: Position of one of the countries towards Anglosphere
