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.