IRE202 Peace economics

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Chovančík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Kříž, 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
Wed 12:00–13:40 U41
Prerequisites
The course provides students with an overview of how economic instruments may be utilized for the promotion of peace. Starting at economic diplomacy, the focus of the course is narrowed down to economic incentives and punishments utilized to foster, build, or coerce peaceful resolutions of disputes and crises. The course represents coercive solutions as a continuum in which diplomacy sits at one end, and military force on the other. Within this continuum the course builds comprehension of the middle ground, where economic instruments are capable of supplementing both sides of the spectrum, and offers students a much deeper understanding of leverage and incentive utilization in international relations. Students will be able to actively participate in the presentations and discussions of key learning cases.
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will enable students to: - identify an often neglected interaction platform in crisis situations - distinguish among the array of instruments applicable by both nation states and IOs - understand the fundamental principles governing economic statecraft in peace promotion - critically assess relations between countries/IOs and target countries based on more than diplomatic relations and military cooperation or conflict
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Peace – stable, negative, positive, and otherwise
  • 3. Conflict economics
  • 4. The conflict-development nexus
  • 5. Global and regional economic actors
  • 6. Structural and direct prevention
  • 7. Development and humanitarian aid
  • 8. Economic leverage in negotiation
  • 9. Economic coercion
  • 10. Sanctions
  • 11. The global arms trade
  • 12. Peacebuilding economics
  • 13. Post-conflict reconstruction
Teaching methods
The course is taught as lectures, supported by slides, and seminars. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the seminars by posing questions of clarification or bringing up problems for discussion. Students are expected to read the required reading(s) for each seminar that serve to broaden and deepen the spectrum of knowledge students acquire during lectures. Short presentations serve to improve the ability of students to work with and present data on a given topic and to improve presentation skills.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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