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Lecturer(s)
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Pílniková Tereza, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Conceptualization of international and regional security 1 - security, threat, risk, referent object, securitization, neutrality, collective defence, collective security, etc. 2. Conceptualization of international and regional security 2 - definition and classification of wars and armed conflicts (modern wars, postmodern wars, asymmetric conflicts, civil wars, terrorism etc.) 3. Theoretical approaches to security, threats and conflicts 4. Military security - military threats, revolution in military affairs and its impact on the transformation of military security, privatization of security, weapons of mass destruction and the threats they present 5. Energy security - strategic resources, allocation of resources, risks of energy dependence 6. Human security - security-development nexus, its interpretation and impact on security policies 7. Weak, failing, failed and rogue states and security issues related to state failure/weakness 8. Conflict theory and conflict cycle - theoretical approaches explaining causes of wars and armed conflicts, course and dynamics of conflicts 9. Contemporary international and regional security and conflict resolution instruments - peace instruments, use of force, preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, post.conflict reconstruction, humanitarian intervention, disarmament and arms control etc. 10. Contemporary actors of international and regional security and conflict resolution - states, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations etc. 11. Regional security 1 - regional security dynamics, regional security complexes, zones of peace and zones of war 12. Regional security 2 - role of regional powers, regional regimes and organizations in the resolution of local conflicts and in securing regional stability 13. Current questions of international and regional security - transformation of conflicts, non.military threats, growth of non-state armed groups' activities
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 50 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 44 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize different types of conflicts |
| to explain changes in the definition of security in relation to changes in the international system |
| to evaluate the concepts of national security, international security and human security |
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| to classify different types of international organizations according to the approach to ensuring international security |
| Competences |
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| N/A |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to explain basic concepts and theories related to the study of international and regional security |
| to explain the complex problems of international and regional security of the 20th and 21st centuries from the theoretical and empirical point of view |
| to define and explain the concept of regional security complex |
| to characterize the development of the concept of security in connection with the transformation of the international system |
| to differentiate and define different security concepts |
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| to identify the different types of major regional security threats in the current international system |
| to qualify and define the causes of threats using an appropriate theoretical framework |
| to independently interpret the successes or failures of concrete conflict resolution |
| Competences |
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| teaching methods |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Textual studies |
| Seminar |
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| Textual studies |
| Seminar |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Combined exam |
| Skills |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Competences |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001): The Responsibility to Protect, s. xi-20.
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Alagappa, Muthiah. Asia's Security Environment: From Subordinate to Region Dominant System. Stanford UP, 2008.
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Boot, Max. The Evolution of Irregular War.. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2., 2013.
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Buzan, B. - de Wilde, J. - Waver, O. Security. A new framework for analysis. Boulder: London, 1995.
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Buzan, Barry; Waever, Ole. Regions and powers : the structure of international security. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-89111-0.
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Crocker, Chester A.,; Hampson, Fen Osler,; Aall, Pamela R. Rewiring regional security in a fragmented world. 1st pub. Washington : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60127-070-2.
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Diehl, Paul F. International Peacekeeping. With new epilogue on Somalia, Bosna, and Cambodia. The John Hopkins University Press, 1994.
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Esman, Milton J.; Herring, Ronald J. Carrots, sticks, and ethnic conflict : rethinking development assistance. 1st paperback ed. Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, 2003. ISBN 0-472-08927-7.
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Flint, C. The Geography of War and Peace. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Lemke, Douglas. Regions of war and peace. Cambridge University Pres: Cambridge, 2002.
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Luttwak, Edward N. Give War a Chance. Foreign Affairs Vol. 78, No. 4, s. 36-44, 1999.
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Oberleitner, Gerd. Human Security: A Challenge to International Law?. Global Governance, Vol. 11, 2005.
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Ondřej, J. Odzbrojení prostředek zajištění mezinárodní bezpečnosti. Pelhřimov: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
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Reveron, Derek S.- Mahoney-Norris, Kathleen A. Human Security in a Borderless World. Boulder, Co: Westview, 2011.
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ROTBERG, Robert I. Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators. In ROTBERG, Robert I. (ed.): State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror, Washington D.C., 2003.
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Rothschild, Emma. What is Security? In: Daedalus.. Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Science,, 1995.
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Townshend, Ch. Historie moderní války. Praha: Mladá fronta., 2007.
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Waisová, Šárka. Evropská energetická bezpečnost. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-148-9.
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