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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Lídl, Ph.D. (16.01.2020)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Navrátilová (08.03.2021)
The principal aim of this course is to provide students with the overview of the basic geographical characteristics of this area in terms of physical, economic, cultural and political geography, demography and geopolitics. |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Lídl, Ph.D. (14.04.2022)
Requirements - 1-2 presentations (15 - 20 minutes) on assigned territory based on the below-mentioned structure - compulsory reading would be each week uploaded in SIS/send to students - 3 position papers (250 words each) on the compulsory reading - final written exam with blind map - meaningful participation (commentaries, questions), minimum attendance - 80 % (10 lectures)
Topics of presentations Ukraine, Moldova (8. 3.) Čizmič, Čizmič Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan (12. 4.) Isgandarov, Isgandarov Lithuania, Belarus (19. 4.) Petschnigg, Petschnigg Russian Federation, Central Russia + Northwest Russia (26. 4.) Šebek, Šebek Georgia, Armenia (3. 5) Sadowska, Sadowska Ural Region, Volga Region (10. 5.) Lebriez, Lebriez Structure of presentations - physical geography - demography - economic geography - cultural geography - political geography - geopolitics and geoeconomy
50% presentations and class reading 50% final exam
4 (D) 70 – 61% 5 (E) 60 – 51% 6 (F) less than 50%
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Lídl, Ph.D. (15.02.2022)
1. Introduction
2. Space-power Relations Bruno Latour, “Visualisation and Cognition: Drawing Things Together”, Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present, Jai Press vol. 6, p. 1-44.
3. Rus and Russias Denis A. Hupchik, Concise historical atlas of Eastern Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996). Allen F. Chew, An atlas of Russian history (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967). Mykola Riabchuk, "Ukrainians as Russia's negative other: History comes full circle", Communist and Post-Communist Studies 49 (2016): 76-80.
4. Russian World Marlene Laruelle, The Russian World: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination (Washington: Center on Global Interests, 2015). Mikhail Suslov, “Russian World” Concept: Post-Soviet Geopolitical Ideology and the Logic of “Spheres of Influence”, Geopolitics Vol. 18, No. 2 (2018): 330-353.
5. Eurasianism Slawomir Mazurek and Guy R. Torr, "Russian Eurasianism: Historiosophy and Ideology", Studies in East European Thought Vol. 54, No. 1/2 (2002):105-123. Marléne Laruelle, Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008): 1–39.
6. Heartland and Eurasian Balkans Halford J. Mackinder, “The Geographical Pivot of History”, The Geographical Journal vol. 23 (1904): 421-437. Halford J. Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, Washington: National Defence University Press (1942): The Landsman’s Point of View p. 53-83. Nicholas J. Spykman, “Geography and Foreign Policy I.” The American Political Science Review 32 (1938): 28-50. Nicholas J. Spykman, “Geography and Foreign Policy II.” The American Political Science Review 32 (1938): 213-236. Oscar Halecki, The Limits and Divisions of European History. Paris: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962. "The Great Eastern Isthmus" p. 85-105, "Western and Eastern Europe" p. 105-125. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, (London): Basic Books, 1998. The Black Hole, p. 87-118 and The Eurasian Balkans, p. 118-148.
7. Eurasian Economic Union vs. Eastern Partnership Frederick Starr and Svante E. Conrell, Putin's Grand Strategy: the Eurasian Union and Its Discontents (Washington, D.C.: Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, 2014): 14-82. Janusz Bugajski and Margarita Assenova, Eurasian Disunion: Russia's Vulnerable Flanks (Washington, D.C.: Jamestown Foundation, 2016). Andrei Yeliseyeu, "The Eurasian Economic Union: Expectations, Challenges and Achievements", German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2019. Bob Deen, Wouter Zweers and Iris van Loon, "Dilemma 1: Fostering democratic reform amidst geopolitical realities", Clingendael Institute 2021. Bob Deen, Wouter Zweers and Iris van Loon, "Dilemma 2: Why keep the multilateral dimension?", Clingendael Institute 2021. Bob Deen, Wouter Zweers and Iris van Loon, "Dilemma 3: Should the Eastern Partnership address the security deficit?", Clingendael Institute 2021.
8. Silk Roads Vladimir Fedorenko, The New Silk Road Initiatives in Central Asia. Washington: Rethink Paper no. 10, 2013. Cristina Lin, The New Silk Road: China’s Energy Strategy in the Greater Middle East (Washington: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2011). Peter Cai, Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Lowy Institute for International Policy (2017).
9. Energy Superpower Bertil Nygren, “Putin’s Use of Natural Gas to Reintegrate the CIS Region”, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 55, no. 4, 2008. Mykhailo Gonchar, Energy Component in New Generation Warfare: Case of Russia’s Hybrid Aggression against Ukraine (Kyiv: Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI, 2015).
10. Liberal Empire Alexander J. Motyl, „Putin's Russia as a fascist political system“, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 49, no. 1 (2016): 25–36. Daniel Treisman, „Putin's Silovarchs", Orbis, 2007. Dabrowski Marek, „Russia’s growth problem", Bruegel, 2019. |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Lídl, Ph.D. (15.02.2022)
Lectures, self-study with compulsory reading and atlases, students' presentations.
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Lídl, Ph.D. (16.01.2020)
1. Introduction 2. Space-power Relations 3. Rus and Russias 4. Russian World 5. Eurasianism 6. Heartland and Eurasian Balkans 7. Eurasian Economic Union vs. Eastern Partnership 8. Silk Roads 9. Energy Superpower 10. Liberal Empire
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