Course description

            The course will guide students to an understanding of the context, design, and decision-making process behind the key economic instrument utilized in modern diplomacy and especially crisis and coercive diplomacy - international sanctions. The latter half of the course is dedicated explicitly to  sanctions (restrictive measures) and examines the impact in the innovation, design, and execution of sanction regimes at the forefront of global developments.

ECTS Credits:                         5
Max no. of students:            20
Level:                                      graduate
Language:                              English
Format:                                  lectures with seminars
Lecturer:                                Mgr. Martin Chovančík, Ph.D.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to:

- identify appropriate contexts of sanctions use and articulate the interplay with other economic and diplomatic instruments

- compare the toolkit utilized by actors to address a crisis or conflict

- competently analyze/appraise the weaknesses and compromises made in particular sanctions regimes

- assess and criticize the sanctions imposed from the point of view of the targeted and designing country