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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. Actors of the international security environment 2. The term international security and international relations 3. Actors of the international security environment and their regulation by international law 4. United Nations (UN): history and organization 5. United Nations (UN): international migration (UNHCR), public health protection (WHO), International Labour Organization (ILO), and International Criminal Court (ICC) 6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): history and organization 7. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): collective security 8. The European Union (EU): security policy and institutions 9. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Visegrad group (V4); Convergence in the international security environment: 10. Intelligence services and diplomacy as a part of security policy 11. International humanetarian/development aid 12. Comphrensive approach in complex environment: security sector reconstruction/nation building/social re-development
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
- Writing a seminar paper
- 10 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 56 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 an introduction into the international system. An close attention is paid to its actors, regulation, capabilities, and contemporary agenda. In addition, the course pays attention to the most relevent actors to the Czech defence and security policy, such as UN, NATO, and EU.
Students who passed the exemination are able: - to identify relevant actors in the international security system; - to apply relevant procedures and rules established by the UN when an emergency should be resolved; - to describe aim, bodies, and agenda of the international organizations, such as UN, NATO, EU, and OSCE; - to explain the importance of national capabilities, such as diplomacy, inteligence service, and soft power for a protection of national interests in the international system; - to distinguish between humanetarien and development aid in the nexus with warfare and a humanetarian catastrophe. Students who passed the exemination can: - analyse internatinal news in accordance with regulations of the international system; - apply the AAA-model (an arena, actors, and an agenda) in order to explain intenational relations and conflicts; - analyse behaviour of individual actors, such as the heads of the states, the heads of the governments, ministers, from point of the view of national polities, cultures, and national interests; - provide a relevent analysis of particular international events, such as summits, visits, conferences, etc. Students who passed the exemination: - knows international news and he/she is able to take a position in the opinion of the national security and defence policy; - understands the ethics of dis/armament and risk of war; - is able to convince experts and public by his/her analysis of an international event.
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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
In order to get a right to be examined, each student is obligated to take part in workshops and to elaborate two task (the AAA-model and an essay/argumentative writening). Each student can collect 100 points for all tasks together, 50 points are a floor. The final examination is oral. A student ought to pick a qustion (topic). He/she has a short time for taking notes about the topic in order to be able to discuss with the examinator.
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Recommended literature
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Mezinárodní politika. ÚMV Praha. Dostupný z www:<iir.cz>. ISSN 0543-7962..
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Balabán, M. Nezápadní aktéři světové bezpečnosti.. Praha: Karolinum, 2010.
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Brzezinski, Z. Volba.. Praha: MF, 2004.
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JANOŠEC, J. et al. Armáda České republiky ? symbol demokracie a státní suverenity. 1993-2012.. Praha: Ministerstvo obrany ČR, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7278-614-5.
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Janošec,J. a kol.:. Bezpečnost a obrana České republiky 2015-2025. (Monografie). Praha: MO ČR-AVIS 2005, 200 s. ISBN 80-7278-303-3..
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Malenovský, Jiří. Mezinárodní právo veřejné : jeho obecná část a poměr k jiným právním systémům, zvláště k právu českému. Brno: Masarykova univerzita , 2008. ISBN 978-80-210-4474-6.
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Rob, F. Diplomatický protokol a etiketa. Praha: Ministerstvo obrany ČR, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7278-418-9.
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Smolík, J. Úvod do mezinárodních vztahů. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-5131-3.
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