EVS171 EU Crisis Management

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jana Urbanovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Markéta Pitrová, 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
Tue 9:45–11:15 U42
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: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The subject of the course is civilian and military crisis management (CM) of the European Union (EU). The course offers theoretical as well as practical insight into the issue of EU CM operations. At the end of the course students should be able to better understand the meaning of EU CM and the role of EU CM operations, to have an overview about completed as well as ongoing operations, to describe the development of EU CM capacities, to clarify the institutional structure and decision-making mechanisms of the EU CM, to explain ways of Czech participation in EU CM and to analyze EU CM operations in particular geographical regions. Last but not least, students get the opportunity to confront the knowledge they get in the course with experience of an expert.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction
  • 2) EU crisis management and the role of EU CM operations
  • 3) Development of EU CM capacities and cooperation with partners
  • 4) Institutional structure and decision-making mechanisms of EU CM
  • 5) Participation of the Czech Army in EU CM
  • 6) Discussion with a guest: experience from EU civilian and military CM operations
  • 7) Reading week
  • 8) Mid-term test
  • 9) EU CM in the Balkans
  • 10) EU CM in Africa
  • 11) EU CM in the Middle East and Central Asia
  • 12) EU CM in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and South-east Asia
  • 13) Conclusion
Literature
  • Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy : theory in action. Edited by Xymena Kurowska - Fabian Breuer. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xiii, 256. ISBN 9780230277830. info
  • JOHANNSEN, Janina. The EU's comprehensive approach to crisis management : premises, ambitions, limits. 1. Aufl. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011, 399 s. ISBN 9783832969530. info
  • PETERS, Dirk. Constrained balancing : the EU's security policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, x, 264. ISBN 9780230242142. info
  • CHIVVIS, Christopher. EU civilian crisis management : the record so far. Santa Monica: RAND, 2010, xvi, 52. ISBN 9780833049193. info
  • LIEWERSCHEIDT, Malte. European security and defence policy : an analysis of decision-making processes towards military deployments. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010, 168 s. ISBN 9783639311235. info
  • A responsibility to assist : EU policy and practice in crisis-management operations under European security and defence policy : a COST report. Edited by Tom Hadden. Portland, Or.: Hart Pub., 2009, xiv, 155. ISBN 9781841139340. info
  • LAÏDI, Zaki. EU foreign policy in a globalized world : normative power and social preferences. New York: Routledge, 2008, ix, 201. ISBN 9780415599511. URL info
  • GIEGERICH, Bastian. European security and strategic culture : national responses to the EU's security and defence policy. 1st ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2006, 244 p. ISBN 9783832923716. info
Teaching methods
The first part of the course is composed of lectures, the other part of the course consists mainly of seminars. Lectures offer basic information, students are supposed to extend them through required and recommened readings. The elaboration of case studies improves heuristic and analytical skills of students, as well as their team work. Oral presentations of the case studies serve to improve students´ presentation skills and their abilities to emphasize important information and omit the less significant in a given time limit.
Assessment methods
mid-term and final test, elaboration of a case study and its presentation, team work, participation in class discussions based on the reading
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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