FSS:IREn5006 German foreign policy - Informace o předmětu
IREn5006 German foreign policy
Fakulta sociálních studiípodzim 2024
- Rozsah
- 1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
- Vyučující
- Mgr. Jana Urbanovská, Ph.D. (přednášející)
- Garance
- Mgr. Jana Urbanovská, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií - Předpoklady
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The knowledge of German language is an advantage, it is however not a precondition for a successful completion of the course. - Omezení zápisu do předmětu
- Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 30 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/30, pouze zareg.: 21/30 - Mateřské obory/plány
- předmět má 10 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
- Cíle předmětu
- Traditionally, Germany has been considered a “civilian power”, tied to the West, embedded in multilateral structures, with a value-based foreign policy and a reserved approach to the use of force. In the decades following the re-unification of Germany in 1990 up to the present, the notion of Germany as a civilian power has been challenged on multiple occasions. Other labels have appeared – such as central power, middle power, hegemonic power, leading power, shaping power, reflective power, or geo-economic power – that either complement the role of Germany as a civilian power, or even suggest a departure from this traditional foreign policy concept. Building on rich empirical data and academic debates on German foreign policy, the central questions of our course will be: What kind of power Germany is? Is it still a civilian power, or do other concepts better explain German post-unification foreign policy?
- Výstupy z učení
- The main goal of the course is to understand the nature of contemporary German foreign policy. Upon successful completion of the course, students will have a detailed overview of post-WW II German foreign policy; they will be able to interpret academic debates concerning German foreign policy; and they will be able to conduct a theoretically guided analysis of German foreign policy with an emphasis on the post-unification period.
- Osnova
- 1) Introduction to the course
- 2) Public holiday - no class
- 3) German foreign policy and its puzzles
- 4) Civilian power: West Germany's grand strategy
- 5) Guest lecture by Prof. Heribert Dieter
- 6) Continuity and change of the civilian power Germany after reunification
- 7) Germany and the European integration: From a tamed power to a normalized power
- 8) Germany in the United Nations: An ambitious middle power - that got stuck
- 9) Germany and the politics of military intervention: A civilian power “without courage”?
- 10) When interests beat norms: Germany as a geo-economic power
- 11) The “new” German foreign policy: A reflective and shaping power
- 12) Germany in times of Zeitenwende: Leading power still in the making
- 13) Conclusion: Germany – what kind of power?
- Literatura
- FRÖHLICH, Stefan. The end of self-bondage : german foreign policy in a world without leadership. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2021, xii, 131. ISBN 9783658327637. info
- HUDSON, Valerie M. Foreign policy analysis : classic and contemporary theory. Third edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, xi, 276. ISBN 9781442277908. info
- STENGEL, Frank A. The politics of military force : antimilitarism, ideational change, and postwar German security discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press, 2020, xvi, 275. ISBN 9780472132218. info
- Routledge handbook of German politics & culture. Edited by Sarah Colvin - Mark Taplin. First published in paperback. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, xx, 493. ISBN 9780815377573. info
- New Europe, new Germany, old foreign policy : german foreign policy since unification. Edited by Douglas Webber. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, 226 stran. ISBN 9780714681856. info
- Výukové metody
- Teaching methods include lectures, students’ presentations, text discussions, group work and debates on current events in German foreign policy. Students are also going to read a series of fundamental texts that have shaped major debates about German foreign policy. Students’ activity in the course is based on regular, week-by-week work.
- Metody hodnocení
- Students' presentation: 20 %
Reading quizzes: 40 %
Final take-home exam: 40 % - Vyučovací jazyk
- Angličtina
- Další komentáře
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- Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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