FASDT01 Historical and Political Aspects of Southeastern Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Hladký, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in the area of southeastern Europe.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture is focused on the doctoral student being well acquainted with the essence of contemporary problems that must be faced by the South-Eastern European area. It defines the main conflict problems, determines their historical nature and attempts at their historical and recent solutions. While also noting the religious issues and the role of churches in   particular problems. It deals with historical and recent relations between the individual countries of South - Eastern Europe, the view of superpower politics on partial problematic periods and the consequences of superpower interventions in these relations in the past and present.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student will be able to: characterize the most important problems of Southeast Europe in the past and present; will know the historical nature of these problems; will be able to shed light on religious and ecclesiastical influences in the problems of south-eastern Europe; will be able, even in the media, to clarify the nature of the interventions of great powers in the problems of Southeast Europe and their consequences.
Syllabus
  • 1. Historical development of Southeast Europe and its influence on national liberation and national revival ideologies of Southeast European countries 2. State-building myths in today's southeastern Europe. 3. The influence of religion on relations between the peoples of southeastern Europe 4. Christianity and Islam in Southeast Europe in the past and present. 5. The legacy of the Eastern Question and its superpower interventions in today's southeastern Europe. 6. Superpower policy towards Southeast Europe in the second half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. 7. The Bosnian question 8. The Kosovo issue 9. The Macedonian question 10. Serbian-Montenegrin relations 11. Serbian-Croatian relations 12. Bulgarian-Greek-Macedonian relations 13. European Union and Southeast Europe
Literature
    required literature
  • PELIKÁN, Jan, Tomáš CHROBÁK, Jan RYCHLÍK, Stanislav TUMIS, Ondřej VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ and Ondřej ŽÍLA. Státy západního Balkánu v uplynulém čtvrtstoletí a perspektivy jejich vývoje. Vydání první. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2016, 464 stran. ISBN 9788073086480. info
    recommended literature
  • Prekolonialismus, kolonialismus a postkolonialismus : impéria a ti ostatní ve východní a jihovýchodní Evropě. Edited by Stanislav Tumis - Hanuš Nykl. Vydání první. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2015, 243 stran. ISBN 9788073085827. info
  • From Yugoslavia to the western Balkansstudies of a European disunion, 1991-2011. Edited by Robert M. Hayden. Boston: Brill, 2013, xviii, 391. ISBN 9789004241916. info
  • ŠTĚPÁNEK, Václav. Jugoslávie – Srbsko – Kosovo. Kosovská otázka ve 20. století (Yugoslavia – Serbia – Kossovo. Kossovo issue in 20th century). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 471 pp. Spisy MU v Brně, Filozofická fakulta ; č. 396. ISBN 978-80-210-5476-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • STOJAROVÁ, Věra. Současné bezpečnostní hrozby západního Balkánu : kritická analýza konceptu bezpečnosti Kodaňské školy. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2007, 295 s. ISBN 9788073251345. info
    not specified
  • MAZOWER, Mark. Temný kontinent : Evropa ve 20. století. Translated by Petr Fantys - Tereza Marková Vlášková. První české vydání. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2019, 507 stran. ISBN 9788024641928. info
  • ŽÍLA, Ondřej. "Jedna si jedina moja domovina?" : etno-demografické proměny Bosny a Hercegoviny v letech 1945-2013. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2014, 412 s. ISBN 9788073085230. info
  • HLADKÝ, Ladislav. Bosenská otázka v 19. a 20. století. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 388 s. ISBN 8021036745. info
  • MAZOWER, Mark. The Balkans : from the end of Byzantium to the present day. pbk ed. London: Phoenix, 2001, viii, 176. ISBN 9781842125441. info
Teaching methods
lecture, discussion, speeches of guests from the diplomatic sphere
Assessment methods
Essay, oral exam, simulation of media appearances (radio, television)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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