FSS:BSS461 Collapse of states - Course Information
BSS461 Collapse of states
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Tomáš Šmíd, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- 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
- each odd Wednesday 16:00–19:40 Studio 527
- 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 and Strategic Studies (programme FSS, N-PL)
- Course objectives
- At the end of course students should be able to understand topic of weakeness of state´s power and explain indicators leading to the state failure. Informations and knowledges shlould be useful for analysis of events in some countries in so called Second and Third World. Knowledkes and informations could be applicated in non academic professions (diplmacy, journalism, intelligence,humanitarian help etc.).
- Syllabus
- 1. Definitions, terminology, development of subdidciline and research of state failure 2. Methodological approaches- basic trends 3. Theoretical Approahces of Research of State failure I. 4. Theoretical Approahces of Research of State failure II. 5. Analytical frameworks for case studies 6. Case study of weak state - Macedonia 7. Case study of weak state - Armenia 8. Case study of failed state - Tadjikistan 9. Case study of state "in dynamic progression" - Georgia 10. Case study of collapsed state - Afghanistan 11. Case study of virtual state - Somalia 12. Questions of de facto states - Nagorno Karabakh, Pridnestrovie, Abkhazia 13. Final discussion
- Literature
- Building a new Afghanistan. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007, ix, 242. ISBN 9780815775690. URL info
- When states fail : causes and consequences. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, x, 335. ISBN 0691116725. 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
- State failure, collapse and reconstruction. Edited by Jennifer Milliken. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2003, x, 325. ISBN 1405105364. info
- Collapsed states : the disintegration and restoration of legitimate authority. Edited by I. William Zartman. Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers, 1995, vii, 303. ISBN 1555875602. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, seminars, discussions, short analyses and seminar papers
- Assessment methods
- running (maintained) test, oral exam, short analyses with presentations, seminar paper. Participation in seminars is obligatory!
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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