ESS427 International Relations Theory and Energy Security

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2017
Rozsah
1/1/0. 8 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. Mgr. Petr Ocelík, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Lukáš Lehotský, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Mgr. Nikita Minin, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Filip Černoch, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Rozvrh
Čt 11:30–13:00 M117
Předpoklady
! ESS419 International Relations Theory
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course introduces students to main theoretical approaches to security in International Relations (IR) with emphasis on energy-related issues. Each class is built around main concepts of a given approach. The class is followed by seminar where the students debate and explore introduced concepts in the context of required literature. First, the course focuses on traditionalist approaches to security, realism, and liberalism, with key concepts of balance of power and interdependence upon which, in the energy-related arena, strategic and market approaches to energy security are based. The following part of the course covers revisionist approaches starting with social constructivism that is introduced both as a social theory and theory of IR. The rest of the course then focuses on four distinct revisionist schools, namely: Copenhagen school, Paris school, Welsh school, and new materialism, where securitization theory, structural violence, Bourdieusian concepts of field and habitus as well as concepts of assemblage and Actor-Network are introduced. The course is finished with presentations on one of the introduced approaches. Upon successful completion of the course, the students will have a complex understanding of the issue and will be able to use this knowledge in an informed and creative way.The course introduces students to (meta)theoretical assumptions and methodological apparatus of social network analysis. Each class consists of a lecture which introduces theoretical background and “mechanics” of a given concept or method, and a workshop where students use this knowledge through practical tasks.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of this course the student should be able to: 1. identify general characteristics of various approaches to security within the IR theory; 2. assess the viability of various approaches in the contemporary world and the changing international environment; 3. apply approaches to critically reflect and analyze particular issues of today’s international politics related to energy security.
Osnova
  • Organizational session / Concepts and theories: why are they important?
  • Realism: strategic approach to security and balance of power
  • Liberalism: market approach to security and interdependence
  • Revisionist approaches to security in International Relations
  • Social constructivism in International Relations
  • Copenhagen school: a framework for analysis
  • Copenhagen school: revisions
  • Paris School: field, habitus, and practices
  • Contemporary Interpretations of Marxism
  • Welsh School: structural constraints and emancipation
  • New materialism: assemblage, actor-network, and translation
Literatura
  • BOOTH, Ken. Theory of world security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xviii, 489. ISBN 9780521543170. info
  • BUZAN, Barry, Ole WAEVER a Jaap de WILDE. Security : a new framework for analysis. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998, viii, 239. ISBN 1555877842. info
  • KATZENSTEIN, Peter, J. The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. New York, 1996. Columbia University Press. info
Výukové metody
lectures, workshops, readings, assignments
Metody hodnocení
assignments grading
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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