EVS432 Geopolitics of European Integration

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2010
Rozsah
2/0/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Dr. Kazimierz Wóycicki (přednášející), doc. PhDr. Břetislav Dančák, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Markéta Pitrová, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Rozvrh
Út 20. 4. 14:00–15:30 U35, St 21. 4. 8:00–9:30 U43, 14:00–15:30 U32, Čt 22. 4. 8:00–9:30 U42, 14:00–15:30 U42, Pá 23. 4. 10:00–13:30 U42
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Cíle předmětu
The Lecture is on the subject of todays geopolitical situation of European Union and correlations with the process of integration. Contemporary EU-Europe has to face immense challenges and threats: demographical, social, economical and also dealing with challenges of new, emerging powers. Future of the EU-Europe is unsafe and there are many scenarios of Europe's downfall. The question is: what conditions must the EU-Europe fulfill to stay during the next two centuries among the main political players in global politics. What is to do for Europe to keep its well-being and security.
Osnova
  • The lecture will bring up the following topics: • The notion of geopolitics in recent studies of political science. Schools of "realists" and "idealists" towards geopolitical issues and European integration. • Factors of political power in contemporary world: demography (migrations, ageing societies), energy (oil Peak, renewable energy), the development of new technologies, civil society and human capital, education (knowledge society), the military factor. EU-Europe ant its regions in World Comparison. • The old and new global player: the United States, EU-Europa, Russia, world of Islam, China, India. How multipole can be the world? • World's forecasts for Europe 2030: "Mad Max", "the New World Order", "Changes on the chessboard", "Superstar Europe"; • National egoisms in the process of European integration; mechanisms of the negotiation of national interest in EU; • What can we learn from history of European integration? Crises of the European idea and the progress of European integration; • EU- Enlargement 2005 and the significance of east- central Europe. Has the EU-Enlargement 2005 changed meaningly the European geopolitics?; • European integration and transatlantic relationships, EU-Europe in view of the decline of the American power; • EU-Budget and its main components: is the Brussels managing our money reasonably in the perspective of challenges of two most recent decades? • Perspectives of enlargement and the final borders of the European Union. EU- neighborhood policy. • Remarks on the geopolitics of Central Europe. Selected literature: Brzeziński Zbigniew: The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives Cini Michelle: European Union Politics. Dinand Desmod: Europe Recast. A History of European Union. Fukuyama Francis: State-Buildung: Governance and the World Order in the 21st Century Giddens Anthony: Runaway World. Haas Richard: U.S. Foreign Policy in Nonpolar World. Foreign, Affairs may/June 2008. In the Spotlight: Population of Germany Today and Tomorrow 2002-2050, Federal Statistical Office of Germany. Jaroszewicz Marta, Szerepka Leszek: Migration Challenges in the European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood, (2007). Kagan Robert: Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008). Kaplan Robert D.: The Coming Anarchy. Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000). Laquer Walter: The Last Days of Europe. Epitaph for an Old Continent.(2007). Leonard Mark: why Europe will run the 21st century (2005). Lucas Edward: The New Cold War. How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West, London 2008. Meinhard Migiel: Epochenwende. Gewint der Westen die Zukunft? Open up. A Special Report on Migration. The Economist, January 5th 2008. Zakaria Fareed: Is America in Decline?, Foreign Affairs may/June 2008. Hamilton S., Burwell Frances G (Lead Authors): Shoulder to Shoulder. Forging a Strategic U.S>-EU Partnership. Daniel. December 2009.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Kontakt na vyučujícího: kazwoy@gmail.com
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