Syllabus
4/10 Introduction (Eliška Tomalová) 11/10 Current Populism in Europe (Martin Mejstřík)
Kriesi, Hanspeter. 2014. "The Populist Challenge". West European Politics 37:2, 361-378. 18/10 Social and Demographic Changes in Europe Since You Were Born (Jan Váška)
(1) Requena M., „The Secularization of Spanish Society: Change in Religious Practice“, South European Society and Politics, 10:3 (2005), 369-390
(2) Field C., „Another Window on British Secularization: Public Attitudes to Church and Clergy since the 1960s, Contemporary British History 28:2 (2014), 190-218 25/10 European Soft Power, EU Cultural Diplomacy and Branding (Eliška Tomalová)
NIELSEN, Kristian L.; VILSON, Maili. The Eastern Partnership: Soft Power Strategy or Policy Failure, European Foreign Affairs Review. 2014 Special, Vol. 19, p243-262. 20p. 1/11 Guest lecture: The Trojan Rabbit: The EU, Strategic Autonomy, and Transatlantic Relations (Sven Biscop)
Reading: http://www.egmontinstitute.be/content/uploads/2019/01/EP103.pdf?type=pdf 8/11 EU and South Caucasus (Pikria Asanashvili, Tbilisi State University) 15/11 Climate and Water Diplomacy in the EU context (Eliška Tomalová) 22/11 Russia in the Liberal World Order (Maxine David, Leiden University) 29/11 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Brexit and post-Brexit scenarios (Ivo Šlosarčík) 6/12 Key Economic Challenges in the EU (Pamela Cotte) 13/12 European-African Relations: Role of Spain and Portugal (Barbora Menclová)
Robinson, S. Painting the CFSP in national colours: Portuguese strategies to help shape the EU`s external relations. International Journal of Iberian Studies. Jun2015, Vol. 28 Issue 2/3, p235-255.
Annotation
The master course Current challenges in Europe was especially designed for the European Politics and Society – Václav Havel Joint Master Programme and is a part of obligatory EPS courses. It consists mainly of guest lectures delivered by guest lecturers from Partner universities, Charles University academics, Associated partners representatives and experts giving the students a multidimensional perspective (academic and non-academic) on current challenges Europe and European Union have been recently facing.