Sylabus for JPM 716

Session 1: Organisation of the Course, Introduction: Defence Industry, its structure and major actors (4/10/2023)

Session 2: Trends, developments in defence industry and impact of RMA since the end of the Cold War (4/10/2023)

Session 3: The geopolitics of defence industry: a conceptual perspective. The defence industrial complex, its influence on foreign policy (11/10/2023)

Session 4: Major actors in defence industry and arms trade: approaches of USA, Russia, Israel, China. Dynamics of the relations with recipients of their equipment and its consequences to geopolitics. (11/10/2023)

Session 5: Major actors in defence industry and arms trade: approaches of Germany, France, UK, Pakistan. (18/10/2023)

Session 6: Arms control mechanisms (special guest) (18/10/2023)

Session 7: European defence industrial base: EU and NATO collaborative policies in defence industry (25/10/2023)

Session 8: Weapon systems and Emerging and Disruptive Technologies - a new key trend in defence industrial ecosystem (25/10/2023)

Session 9+10: Interactive Seminar - role playing in the defence-industrial business (November)

Session 11+12/Special Seminar: Visit of a major Czech defence industry manufacturer - TBD