MVZ234 Selected Security Problems of the Interwar World

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Vladimír Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Mon 13:30–15:00 P21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is focused on the security problems in the period 1918-1939. On successful completion the course, students will be able to analyze the main political, military and economic processes that affect the international policy and evaluate their impact on the outbreak of the second world war. Next to it, they will be able to evaluate both Czech and foreign literature on the subject of the course and to utilize their analytical skills in a seminar essay.
Syllabus
  • 1. An introduction to the topic.
  • 2. The Paris Peace Conference in 1919 - an effective attempt to post-war peace-arrangement, or base of the future problems?
  • 3. The fight for the Border. Bordes disputes in the context of the emergence of new states in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and attempts to resolve them.
  • 4. Turkey-Greek war and Conference in Lausanne in 1923. The beginning of the dismanting of the Versailles system.
  • 5. Search for a universal security. The Conference in Locarno.
  • 6. Disarmament efforts. Myth or reality?
  • 7. The beginnings of decolonization on the example of India.
  • 8. Japanese imperialism and the problem of Manchuria.
  • 9. Security impacts of the Great Depression.
  • 10. The increase of non-democratic regimes in Europe in the 1930s. The deterioration of the international situation.
  • 11. The gradual erosion of the League of Nations (the war in Abyssinia and the ineffectiveness of the sanctions, the occupation of a de-militarised zone in the Rhineland, etc.).
  • 12. The civil war in Spain, and its international demensions (international brigades, the intervention of Italy and Germany).
  • 13. The political and military aspects of the Germany-Soviet Alliance of 1939.
Literature
  • BERNANKE, Ben S. Essays on the Great depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, ix, 310 s. ISBN 0-691-01698-4. info
  • HYAM, Ronald. Britain's declining empire : the road to decolonisation, 1918-1968. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xvii, 464. ISBN 9780521866491. info
  • CLAVIN, Patricia. Great depression in Europe, 1929-1939. 1. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, viii, 244. ISBN 0312237340. info
  • LEE, Stephen J. European dictatorships, 1918-1945. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2008, xv, 408. ISBN 9780415454858. info
  • Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977. Edited by Stanley G. Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999, xii, 601 p. ISBN 9780299165635. info
  • Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918-1940. Edited by H. James Burgwyn. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997, xx, 246 p. ISBN 0275948773. info
  • MACMILLAN, Margaret Olwen. Mírotvorci : pařížská konference 1919. Translated by Ondřej Novák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2004, 551 s. ISBN 802001151X. info
  • The League of Nations. Edited by Ruth B. Henig. London: Haus Publishing, 2010, viii, 240. ISBN 9781905791750. info
  • DEJMEK, Jindřich. Zrod nové Evropy : Versailles, St-Germain, Trianon a dotváření poválečného mírového systému. Praha: Historický ústav, 2011, 517 stran. ISBN 9788072861880. info
Teaching methods
The course is carried out by the combination of lectures and seminars. Regular attendance is required. During the semester, students will compose a seminar essay that will examine their ability to utilize analytical skills and to work with relevant literature.
Assessment methods
The classification will evaluate attendance which will be proved by signatures on the attendance lists. The students will also have to write an seminar essay on one of the given topics (at least 18 000 characters). The final exam will be in the form of a written test examining the student's elementary knowledge of the subject. Overall assessment is composed of the final examination (30 points), midterm written examination (10 points) and seminar essay (20 points. To succesfully complete the course, students have to achieve at least 40 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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