FSS:MVZ808 Geopolitics - Course Information
MVZ808 Geopolitics
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Břetislav Dančák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Petr Ocelík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Kristýna Dyková (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Jan Osička, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS. - Timetable
- Sat 26. 11. 10:00–11:40 U43
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 13 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to analyze international relations on the basis of theory of geopolitics; the students will be taught in geopolitics from its first using by R. Kjellen to the present; students should understand the main differences between individual schools of geopolitical thinking and should be able to apply methods of geopolitics.
- Syllabus
- I. Introduction. Course and evaluation description.
- II. Geopolitics and political geography.
- III. German „Geopolitik“.
- IV. F. Ratzel, K. Haushofer – „Lebensraum“ and the rights for the natural political boudaries.
- V. Anglo-Saxon „Geopolitics“ - H. Mackinder nad Heartland.
- VI. A. T. Mahan – dichotomy between land and sea power.
- VII. Reading week.
- VIII. N. Spykman – Rimland.
- IX. French geopolitical thinking.
- X. Russian geopolitical thinking – A.P.Tsygankov.
- XI. Case study – SSSR.
- XII. Case study - USA.
- Literature
- Geopolitical traditions : a century of geopolitical thought. Edited by Klaus Dodds - David Atkinson. London: Routledge, 2000, xvi, 392. ISBN 0415172497. info
- Krauthammer, Ch.: The unipolar moment revisited. The National Interest, Winter 2002/03
- Tsygankov, A., P.: Mastering Space in Eurasia: Russian Geopolitical Thinking after the Soviet Break-Up, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1. (2003)
- Hartshorne, R.: Recent Developments in Political Geography I. American Political Science Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Oct. 1935)
- Schnitzer, E., W.: German Geopolitics Revived, Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Aug. 1955)
- WALTON, C. Dale. Geopolitics and the great powers in the 21st century : multipolarity and the revolution in strategic perspective. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, viii, 141. ISBN 9780415358538. URL info
- Geopolitics, geography and strategy. Edited by Colin S. Gray - Geoffrey Sloan. 1st pub. London: Frank Cass & Co., 1999, 289 s. ISBN 0-7146-8053-2. info
- Ó TUATHAIL, Gearóid. Critical geopolitics : the politics of writing global space. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1996, x, 314 s. ISBN 0-415-15701-3. info
- Teaching methods
- The teaching is based on e-learning and consultations, students prepare essay.
- Assessment methods
- The course grade consists of the following parts: well-elaborated essay and pass final written exam test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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