Syllabus
The course will start with the creation of the system of nation-states, the description of the ambitions of the great European powers, and the collapse of multi-national empires. The course will continue with the political problems of inter-state relationships, border disputes and minorities questions as one of the biggest problems of European politics in the 20th Century. The other important topic will be the errection and fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe, and the ways in which the new political geography of Eastern Europe was formed. Special attention will be given to the geography of the Balcan crisis of the 1990´s. The last sessions will be about changes caused by the crisis of nation-states: problems of regionalism and the decentralisation of political powers, as well as reintegrations processes within the EU(e. g. migration and the creation of ?new? minorities).
Office hours/Konzultační hodiny:
Friday 5pm (IEPS a GPS)
Course structure: 0. Introduction 1. Europe in geopolitical theories I
Reading:
Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 2.
O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York. 2. Europe in geopolitical theories II
Reading:
Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 2.
O´Tuathail, G. (1998). Geopolitics Reader. London - New York. 3. Shifting geopolitics of Europe since fall of Constantinople
Reading:
Simms. Maps of territorial changes in Europe (SIS).
Final Act of the Congress of Vienna-General Treaty (1815)
Recommended:
Simms, B. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present. 4. European Colonial History - Heart of Darkness
Reading:
General Act - The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 by European Powers
E.J.Hobsbawm. The Age of Empire, pp. 56-83.
Recommended:
I. Buruma, A.Margalit (2002). Occidentalism. In: The New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, no. 1. 5. European territorial changes between 1914-1945
Reading:
Maps of geopolitical changes in Europe between 1914 - 1945 (SIS). 6. PG of Europe - European regional division
Reading:
De Blij, P.Muller. (2010). Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts (14th edition). John Wiley and Sons. Nex York. Chapter 1 (pp. 38 - 98).
Walton, N., Zielonka, J. (2013). The New Political Geography of Europe. European Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR72_POLICY_REPORT_AW.pdf 7. Post-1945 geopolitics of Europe
Readings:
Brezhnev doctrine
Common European Home (Gorbachev 1989): http://polsci.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/1A_Gorbachev.pdf
Helsinky Final Act http://www.osce.org/mc/39501?download=true 8. European integration process/Disintegration tendencies in Europe I.
Reading:
The Marshall Speech (5 June 1947) http://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm
A union, not a unity: The Briand Memorandum http://www.ellopos.net/politics/briand-union.htm
Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 7. 9. European integration process/Disintegration tendencies in Europe II.
Reading:
The Marshall Speech (5 June 1947) http://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm
A union, not a unity: The Briand Memorandum http://www.ellopos.net/politics/briand-union.htm
Cohen, S. (2008). Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Chapter 7.
Recommended:
Primary documents (treaties) of the EU, available at: http://europa.eu/eu-law/treaties/index_en.htm 10. European identity - New minorities in Europe - Languages and immigration in Europe I.
Reading:
Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4. http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269
Recommended:
Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs. http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf 11. European identity - New minorities in Europe - Religion and immigration in Europe II.
Reading:
Delanty, G. (2003). Is There a European Identity? GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 5, no. 3-4. http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=269
Recommended:
Huntington, S. P. (1993): The Clash of Civilizations? In Foreign Affairs. http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/faculty/hauser/ps103/readings/huntingtonclashofcivilizationsforaffsummer93.pdf 12. Geopolitics of contemporary and 21st Europe I
Reading:
Motyl, A.J. (2014). Putin´s Trap: Why Ukraine Should Withdraw from Russian-Held Donbas.
Snyder, T. (2014). Europe and Ukraine Putin’s Project. 16.04.2014 http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/timothy-snyder-about-europe-and-ukraine-putin-s-project-12898389.html
Recommended:
Tunander, O., Baev, P., Einagel, V.E. (1997). Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. International Peace Research Institute. 13. Final test
Annotation
The course will concentrate on political processes not only of the last hundred years, which were and are visible on the political map of Europe.