Syllabus
1) Introduction to the class and the class requirements
2) Cold War and the Origins of NATO
3) NATO after Cold War: Enlargement and Peace-enforcement
4) Out of Area Operations
5) Back to the future: Great Power Competition and Territorial Defense
6) NATO Defense Planning in Practice
7) EU defense autonomy and EU defense planning in practice
8) NATO, EU, and War in Ukraine
9) EU, NATO, and Hybrid Warfare
10) Crisis scenario I
11) Crisis scenario II
12) Crisis scenario III
Annotation
The course examines recent developments in the security and defence policy of the Euro-Atlantic community from the perspective of their participation in crisis management. The issue is explained in the context of strategic culture as an overarching concept for understanding societal and ideational impulses shaping decision-making with military implications.
The course is structured into four main parts: Firstly, it outlines and explains the concept of strategic culture in relation to the specific conditions of the Euro-Atlantic community. The second part deals with NATO’s transformation after the end of Cold War, helping them understand how a Cold War defence alliance transformed into a security ‘exporter’ through various forms of expeditionary operations.
The course draws students’ attention to the deployments of NATO forces after 1989. It focuses on NATO’s involvement in crisis management operations since the end of Cold War, starting with the discussion on NATO’s future at the turn of 1990s, followed by the deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the bombardment of Milosevic’s Yugoslavia to the later engagement in Afghanistan and the recent operation in Libya.
Fourthly, the course discusses civilian, police and military operations of the European Union as the other prominent organization involved in crisis management. In the final part, the course looks at recent crisis with high relevance to NATO and the EU, and discusses possible reactions of the organizations thereto.