Syllabus
https://cetacademicprograms.com/college-study-abroad/programs/czech-republic/cet-prague/
Required reading materials (the Reader) will be sent to the enrolled students via e-mail as a pdf file.
One copy of the reader will also be available in the CET Library.
Annotation
This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.
The course starts with a brief overview of the main theories of international relations to summarize and build on students’ previous knowledge and understanding of potential and limitations of the theories in the study of international politics. The first couple of lessons cover the most influential IR theories – realism, liberalism, behaviorism, English school, and constructivism. All of them focus on explaining two phenomena in international relations: conflict and cooperation. The main focus of the course is on concrete examples of cooperation and conflict in international politics mostly in Central and Eastern Europe to acquire better understanding of the region in the light of IR theories. The topics include the Cold War with a number of selected events during its course (such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and invasion to Czechoslovakia in 1968), European integration and enlargement, dissolution of former Yugoslavia, contemporary Russia, EU election observation missions, Visegrád Group and Czech diplomacy in the Balkans, among others.