FSS:BSS191 Contemporary Armed Conflicts - Course Information
BSS191 Contemporary Armed Conflicts
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Tomáš Šmíd, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Tvrdá, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D.
Division of Security and Strategic Studies – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Iva Petříková
Supplier department: Division of Security and Strategic Studies – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
- 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
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Course objectives
- The course aims to introduce the most important contemporary armed conflicts, which have blown out after the end of the Cold War that mirror the changes in the character of armed conflicts, show the signs of assymetric threats or differ from the classic conception of war.
- Syllabus
- 1) Opening lecture – 23. 2. 2) Discussion forum on conflict in Afghanistan - 2.3. 3) Introduction to the topic of collective violence - 9.3. 4) Resources and armed conflict – 16.3. 5) Mexico´s drug conflict – foreign guest - 23.3. 6) Asymmetric conflicts - 30.3. 7) Consequences of conflict in Kosovo for international security - 6.4. 8) Conflict diamonds in Angola – 13. 4. 9) Armies and authoritarian regimes – Iranian armed forces - 20.4. 10) Oiled conflicts in Persian Gulf - 27.4. 11) Cyber warfare - 4. 5. 12) Reading week - 11.5. 13) Latent racial conflict in the U.S. – 18. 5.
- Literature
- ŠMÍD, Tomáš. Etnické konflikty v postkomunistickém prostoru (Ethnic conflicts in Post-Communist Area). In VAĎURA, Vladimír. Etnické konflikty v postkomunistickém prostoru. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2007, 278 pp. ISBN 978-80-7325-126-0. info
- ZÜRCHER, Christoph. The post-Soviet wars : rebellion, ethnic conflict, and nationhood in the Caucasus. New York: New York University Press, 2007, xii, 289. ISBN 9780814797099. URL info
- State failure and state weakness in a time of terror. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003, viii, 354. ISBN 0815775733. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- The student is obliged to come to the written exam and eventually to the mid-term test. The final mark will be counted from the total sum of the maximum possible amount points of both tests. The mid-term test consists of 2 questions per 10 points. The written exam consists of 10 questions per 4 points. Thus the maximum is 60 points, the minimum for passing the exam is 36 points.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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