Cultural Security | Topics for Revision
✓ What is cultural security
✓ Role and place of culture in political processes
✓ The iceberg of culture
✓ Culture as an independent variable (examples!)
✓ Culture as a dependent variable (examples!)
✓ Culture in historical development of the international system
✓ Culture in the main theories of political sciences
✓ Obstacles and barriers for culture
✓ Culture as the soft power
✓ The influence of Constructivism
✓ Culture – a structure or the agency?
✓ Cultural motivations for behaviour
✓ Political culture vs Civic culture
✓ Cultural diffusion
✓ Narrow and wide understanding of cultural security
✓ Conceptualisation of culture (characteristic features discussed by Szacka)
✓ Culture and civilization (two traditions)
✓ Elements of national identity (epos, genos, logos, ethos, topos)
✓ “The End of History”- Francis Fukuyama
✓ “Clash of Civilisations”- Samuel P. Huntington
✓ “Jihad versus McWorld” - Benjamin R. Barber
✓ “The Third Wave” – Alvin and Heidi Toffler
✓ ”Global ecumene” - Ulf Hannerz
✓ “Global cultural flows” - Arjun Appadurai
✓ “Glocalisation” - Roland Robertson
✓ Societal security
✓ Traditional cultural security challenges
✓ Ethnic and national minorities
✓ Ethnopolitics
✓ Cultural, economic and territorial segmentation
✓ Ethnopolitical goals
✓ Kin state
✓ Focal points of identities and their connection to political agenda
✓ Nature and level of claims
✓ Differences between the biological, ideological, and economical vs. normative
theories of human life;
✓ The new culture wars
✓ Identity politics
✓ Gramsci and cultural hegemony
✓ Norms versus laws (does universal culture exist?)
✓ Types of social norms;
✓ 6 civilisational difference markers;
✓ Quincunx and it categories;
✓ Models of ethics vs. law relations and their implications;
✓ Models of cognition vs. ideology relations and their implications;
✓ Turanian/Turan civilisation;
✓ Latin civilisation;
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✓ Byzantine civilisation;
✓ Inter-civilisational relations (principles, consequences according to the
normative framework);
Readings:
1. Francis Fukuyama, End of History;
2. Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilisations;
3. Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe (chapter 7);
4. Anthony D Smith, The Concept [of Nationalism] and Its Varieties;
5. Edward Younkins, Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its
Descendents [online];
6. Pluckrose & Lindsay, Cynical Theories (chapter 1);