Passing the study plan

The program is concluded, typically in the fourth semester, by a Final State Examination. The examination consists of two parts:

A written exam from two segments:

A. The Politics of European Integration

1. International Relations as a Science
2. Actors in International Relations
3. Basic Concepts of International Relations
4. Classical Theories of International Relations
5. Modern Theories of International Relations
6. EU in World Politics
7. European Union as a Supranational Entity and its Institutional Structure
8. NATO and Western security during the Cold War
9. The post-Cold War Era and the role of NATO
10. The OSCE and security in Europe
11. Europe and America: contending perspectives on the ballistic missile defence
12. Europe and the United States: conflicting assessments of security threats, their sources and solutions
13. Strategic cultures of CEE states
14. Transnational organizations and world politics (transnational advocacy networks, international NGOs, etc.)
15. Transnational organizations and their involvement in European and East European politics
16. The Visegrad Group (V4) – problems of co-operation in East Central Europe



B. Comparative Politics of Europe
1. Three theoretical dimensions of politics (policy, polity, politics)
2. General theory of the political system
3. Presidential and parliamentary democracies – theoretical models
4. Multilevel politics in Europe and concept of Europeanizetion
5. Great Britain and the Westminster model of majoritarian democracy
6. The political system of contemporary Italy
7 German rationalized parliamentarism
8. France – politics in semi-presidential settings
9. Switzerland – a unique model of semi-direct democracy
10. The Low Countries and the model of consensual democracy
11. The Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian model of political system
12. The political system of Spain and Portugal
13. Roots of European identity
14. The Peace of Westphalia and the emergence of a new Europe
15. Modern European thinking
16. Societies and states in the 19th century
17. Nationalism
18. European states and international relations 1648-1789
19. Concert of Powers and 19th century diplomacy – the road to the First World War
20. The Versailles arrangement and its decline
21. Democracy, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism in interwar Europe
22. Division of Europe 1945-1948


And the defense of a diploma thesis. The minimum character count of the Master’s thesis is 144,000 characters on 80-100 pages of text (including footnotes, front-page, contents, index, bibliography, and annotation).

The Europeanisation of Discourse & Policy in the UK since the Maastricht Treaty... The case of the Conservative & Labour parties
http://is.muni.cz/th/l7gec/

Standing at the Gates of EU - Macedonia Case Study
http://is.muni.cz/th/sxpqd/

The democratization process of Georgia and governments attitude towards mass media
http://is.muni.cz/th/xwtl4/

Can the new expansionism of Turkey overcome its troubled past with nation question?
http://is.muni.cz/th/a6wqs/

Mediation Unchecked: A Study of Superpowers' Strategies in Armed Conflict Mediation
http://is.muni.cz/th/ic00q/