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Lecturer(s)
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Pernica Bohuslav, Ing. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Concepts, models, and theories used for formation, implementatio, and analising of a security policy in regions 2. Micro- a macroeconomic aspects of the security and defence spending in a region (Military-Industrial Complex) 3. Security policy in municipalities and regions - management and economics of the Integrated Rescue System 4. Security policy in municipalities and regions - resillience against terrorism and natural disaters 5. Holistic approach in the security system - a case study 6. Security policy in municipalities and regions - matters of public order and security 7. Economics of an collective action: global security and an aliance/coalition 8. Economics of an collective action: the Evropean Union 9. Economics of an collective action: corruption (a case study)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Home preparation for classes
- 66 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 30 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 14 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 30 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 10 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to provide knowledge for analysing of security problems in regions. Thus the course explains theories, concepts, and models employable for analysing, planning, and an implementation of security policy in regions, such as municipalities, administrative districts, and EU regions.
Students who passed the course are able to: - explain the structural problem caused by militarization and mobilization of a nation and national economy; - explain the reasons of extremism, separatism, terrorism, and warfare and their impact on social and economic development in regions; - explain reasons and effects of a privatization in the security sector; - explain the term of the Military-Industrieal Complex; - explain the theory of resillience against terrorism and natural disasters; - explain the significance of the civic sector for regional security by an application of the Pestoff´s triangle. Students who passed the course can: - analyze the links of security institutions to specific industries; - analyze civil-military relations within a society and a national economy; - classify measurments taken by the international family in order to cope with re-development of the region affected by emergencies; - classify manifestation of extremism in a society in the nexus with the political spectre; - classify terrorist acts from a point of view of goals, terrorist´s motivation, and means of terrorism; - apply the AAA-model (an arena, actors, and their agenda) for analyzing of actors operating in a specific region; - apply concepts of resillience of a region for srcutinizing of an emergency´s impact on a region. Students who passed the course is capable to: - understand the EU policies focusing on diminischig of risk of separatism, extremism, and terrorismu; - include the dimension of economy into security policy focusing on coping with security problems; - to take decisions on resolutions of security problems; - discuss in public their oppion on issues of de/militarization and extremism, terrorism, migration in the nexus with quality of life in the region.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Work-related product analysis, Discussion
In order to get a right to be examinaned, students have to elaborate a term paper. Its processing is spread over four tasks. Each task is graded and students have to achieve a floor at least in each task. The paper is an object of the discussion with the examinator. The examination is an oral one. The student defends his/her term paper. Students have to prove pieces of knowledge gained during the course.
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Recommended literature
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ENTHOVEN, AC., SMITH, KW. How Much Is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program 1961-1969.. Santa Monica, 2005.
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FEINSTEIN, A. The Shadow World. Inside the Global Arms Trade.. London, 2011.
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HUNTINGTON, SP. The Soldier and the State. The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations. Cambridge, 1957.
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KRAFTOVÁ, et al. Bezpečný rozvoj regionu. Základní koncept. Praha, 2016.
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MAREŠ, M. et al. Extrémismus jako bezpečnostní hrozba. Praha, 2011.
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MAREŠ, M. Terorismus v ČR. Praha, 2005.
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OLSON, M. Vzestup a pád národů: ekonomický růst, stagflace a společenská rigidita.. Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86389-51-6.
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PAVELEC, M.S. (ed.). The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society. Oxford, 2010.
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