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 course is dedicated explicitly to sanctions (with a key focus on EU 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:            30
Level:                                      graduate
Language:                              English
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 diplomatic challenges, 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

- assess and criticize the EU restrictive measures design and limitations in a typology of cases