Sylabus
Syllabus 1) Introduction (27. 2.) – Martin Mejstřík
Course description and assessment, introduction to readings and course activities, introduction to Mediterranean region 2) Is the Mediterranean “Achilles’ heel” of Europe? (5. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík
“Refugee crisis” in Mediterranean, case of Italy
Reading:
Pietro Castelli Gattinara. 2017. The ‘refugee crisis’ in Italy as a crisis of legitimacy, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9:3, 318–331. 3) Securitization of the region (12. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík
EU response to address migration and securitization narratives
Reading:
· Panebianco, Stefania. 2020. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
· Léonard, Sarah and Christian Kaunert. 2020. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 4) Italy as the heart of the Mediterranean – what is a current role of former power? (19. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík
Development of Italian foreign policy and its impact on current regional issues
Reading:
· Paoletti, Emmanuela. 2011. „Power Relations and International Migration: The Case of Italy and Libya“. Political Studies 59, 269-289.
· Matteo Colombo & Arturo Varvelli. 2016. The Regeni case and Italy’s Mediterranean policy: a turning point?, Contemporary Italian Politics, 8:3, 277-288. 5) Are democratic regimes in danger? Threat of populism to liberal democracies (26. 3.) – Martin Mejstřík
Growing populism in the Mediterranean a case of Italy
Reading:
· Marco Tarchi. 2015. Italy: the promised land of populism?, Contemporary Italian Politics, 7:3, 273-285.
· Manuela Caiani. 2019. The populist parties and their electoral success: different causes behind different populisms? The case of the Five-star Movement and the League, Contemporary Italian Politics, 11:3, 236-250. 6) Catalonia, Spanish or not? (2. 4.) – Martin Mejstřík
Interpretation of recent political development in Catalonia towards the independence
Reading:
· Guibernau, Montserrat. 2013. “Secessionism in Catalonia: After Democracy”. Ethnopolitics 12 (4), 368-393.
· Marti, David and Cetra, Daniel. 2016. “The 2015 Catalan election: a de facto referendum on independence?” Regional and Federal Studies 26 (1), 107-119. 7) Looking towards radical right (9. 4.)
Growing support of radical right-wing parties (Vox, Chega) in Spain and Portugal
Reading:
· Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, José Rama & Andrés Santana. 2020. The Baskerville's dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general elections, Political Research Exchange, 2:1. 8) Guest Lecture of Dr. Przemyslaw Tacik, Jagiellonian University (16.4.) 9) Unwanted Compatriots: Minorities in Greece? (23. 4.) – Alexis Ntetorakis
Reading:
· Konstantinos Tsitselikis, 'The Pending Modernisation of Islam in Greece: From Millet to Minority Status', Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2007.
· Jane K. Rowan, 'Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: the making of a Macedonian minority in Greece', in Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Benedicte·Dembour, Richard A. Wilson (eds.) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2001.
· Lea Heyne & Luca Manucci. 2021. A new Iberian exceptionalism? Comparing the populist radical right electorate in Portugal and Spain, Political Research Exchange, 3:1. 10) Politics of history and Europeanization of the Balkans (30. 4.) – Kateřina Králová
Reading:
Milosevic, Ana, and Tamara Trost. Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 11) North Macedonia and its Neighbours (7. 5.) – Kateřina Králová
Reading:
Nimetz, Matthew. “The Macedonian ‘Name’ Dispute: The Macedonian Question—Resolved?” Nationalities Papers 48, no. 2 (March 2020): 205–14. 12) Closing seminar (14. 5.) – Martin Mejstřík
Presentation of group policy papers.
Anotace
The aim of this course is to closely follow the recent development of the Mediterranean region. The essence is to analyze the most important and problematic issues in the whole region, including Maghreb countries and Izrael.
The course will follow a structure divided according to specific themes such as immigration, security, Arab Spring, the economic crisis, Greek-Turkish relations, and populism. The aim of the course is to provide a regional perspective on these issues and to show a strong connection between South European countries and their Mediterranean counterparts.