Sylabus
Okruh A: Zahraniční politika
A1: Velká strategie Donalda Trumpa v historické perspektivě
Brands, Hal and Colin Kahl, "Trump’s Grand Strategic Train Wreck", Foreign Policy, January 31, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/31/trumps-grand-strategic-train-wreck/
Mead, Walter Russell, "The Jacksonian Revolt: American Populism and the Liberal Order", Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2017.
A2: Nová renesance v transatlantických vztazích
Shapiro, Jeremy, "Serious and Existential: The Clinton and Trump Challenges to Transatlantic Relations", Istituto Affari Internazionali Working Paper, October 2016.
Witte, Griff, "Trump tried and failed to build a wall in Ireland. That could mean big trouble for Europe", The Washington Post, February 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-tried-and-failed-to-build-a-wall-in-ireland-that-could-mean-big-trouble-for-europe/2017/02/05/4629d02e-e5a0-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.4a8ad5d6d62d&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
A3: Vztahy s Ruskem: "chladná válka"?
Andrej Krickovic and Yuval Weber, "Why a new Cold War with Russia is inevitable", Brookings, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/09/30-new-cold-war-with-russia-krickovic-weber
Ben Nimmo, "Propaganda in a New Orbit", Center for European Policy Analysis, http://www.cepa.org/sites/default/files/Info%20War%20Two.pdf
David Rothkopf, "The Cool War", Foreign Policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/20/the-cool-war/
A4: Spojené státy mezi Íránem a Saúdskou Arábií
Carol E. B. Choksy and Jamsheed K. Choksy, "The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad", World Affairs, May/June, 2015, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/saudi-connection-wahhabism-and-global-jihad
Stephen Kinzer, "The United States Shouldn’t Choose Saudi Arabia Over Iran", POLITICO, January 4, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/saudi-arabia-iran-213504
Blok B: Domácí politika
B1: Proč Trump?
Kieryn Darkwater, “I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah,” Autostraddle, January 26, 2017, https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/
“The Intolerance of the left: Trump’s win as seen from Walt Disney’s hometown,” The Guardian, January 27, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/why-donald-trump-win-walt-disney
Tom McCarthy, “The Promise: Can Trump really make America great again?” The Guardian, January 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/17/donald-trump-america-great-again-northampton-county-pennsylvania
Michael Kruse, “What Do You Do if a Red State Moves to You?” Politico, January/February 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/blue-red-state-democrats-trump-country-214647
Rick Perlstein, “Peter’s Choice,” Mother Jones, January/February 2017, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/donald-trump-2016-election-oklahoma-working-class
B2: Ženská otázka a toxická maskulinita v kontextu #metoo
Nicholas Kristof, “Presidents Trump’s War on Women Begins,” The New York Times: The Opinion Pages, January 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/president-trumps-war-on-women-begins.html?_r=0
Gloria Steinem, “Why women are marching on Washington,” The Boston Globe, January 19, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/19/why-women-are-marching-washington/mY0XZLDS4pu57uVk6ou4EJ/story.html
"US abortion debate: Both sides speak," BBC News, October 25, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34611878
"Trump's order on abortion: What does it mean?" BBC News, January 24th, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38729364
Donald Trump, “Grab them by the…,” original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8U0IaMsRf4
Liam Stack, “Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Draws Outrage,” The New York Times, June 6th, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html?_r=0
B3: Hrozby pro americkou demokracii
Betina Palma, “FACT CHECK: Lawmakers Criminalize Peaceful Protests?” Snopes.com, January 23, 2017, http://www.snopes.com/lawmakers-criminalize-peaceful-protest/
“Bill Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters,” NPR: All Things Considered, January 31, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512636448/bills-across-the-country-could-increase-penalties-for-protesters
Jamiles Lartey, “Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters,” The Guardian, January 25, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/epa-department-agriculture-social-media-gag-order-trump
Nick Cohen, “Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter,” The Guardian: Opinion, February 5th, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-lies-belief-totalitarianism
Steven Rosenfelt, “If We Don’t Act Now, Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian,” an interview with Timothy Snyder, AlterNet, March 13th, 2017, http://www.alternet.org/activism/if-we-dont-act-now-fascism-will-be-our-doorstep-says-yale-historian
B4: Fake News, "Alternative Facts," and the role of Media
Celilia Kanc and Adam Goldman, “In Washington Pizzeria Attack, Fake News Brought Real Guns,” The New York Times, December 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/business/media/comet-ping-pong-pizza-shooting-fake-news-consequences.html
John Swaine, “Donald Trump ’s team defends ‘alternative facts’ after widespread protests,” The Guardian, January 23, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-inauguration-alternative-facts?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=209713&subid=21100470&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Rachael Refvesz, “All the ‘alternative facts’ Sean Spicer gave at this first official press briefing,” The Independent, January 23, 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alternative-facts-sean-spicer-first-official-press-briefing-white-house-employment-china-theresa-may-a7542566.html
Samantha Schmidt and Lindsey Bever, “Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban,” The Washington Post, February 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban/?utm_term=.47a86b930ac1
Philip Bump, “President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks,” The Washington Post, February 6th, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/06/president-trump-is-now-speculating-that-the-media-is-covering-up-terrorist-attacks/?utm_term=.65ae4b99198b
The GOP’s Mainstream Media Accountability Survey, https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/
Lucie Graves, “Shooting the messenger: how Trump’s media vitriol could ultimately backfire,” The Guardian, February 17th, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-media-press-relationship-history
B5: Kvalita života a veřejný prostor v USA
Caty Enders, “Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies,” The Guardian, January 31, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz
Caty Enders, “Republicans back off bill to sell 3.3m acres of public land after outcry,” The Guardian, February 2, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/republ
Anotace
Cílem kurzu je sledovat a analyzovat události v domácí a zahraniční politice USA v reálném čase. Při pohledu na důležité otázky, které utvářejí veřejnou diskusi v USA, bude kurz poskytovat pohled na otázky, které jsou zásadní pro pochopení současné americké politiky.
Monitorování dynamiky současné politiky vyžaduje důkladné čtení zdrojů informací v reálném čase, jako jsou on-line časopisy, noviny a / nebo projevy politiků. Abychom použili výraz Timothy Gartona Ashe, kurs poskytne studentům obraz o „historii současnosti“ Spojených států při použití analytických nástrojů, jako jsou analýzy diskurzu a případové studie.