IREn5024 Grand Strategy

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2025
Rozsah
2/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Bradley Thayer, Ph.D. (přednášející), Mgr. Kateřina Fridrichová, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
PhDr. Petr Suchý, 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
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those interests, and the policies and military forces needed to minimize the danger posed by those threats. Grand strategy is an important topic in international politics because if a state has clearly defined interests and the means to protect them, the chance of war may be reduced or heightened. The aim of this course is to examine the grand strategies of great powers to determine what the relationship is between a great power’s grand strategy and stability in international politics. Particular attention will be paid to the factors that affect grand strategy; the grand strategy of the major powers in World Wars II; and the competing arguments over United States grand strategy in the post-Cold War world.
Osnova
  • Course Outline: Part One: Introduction to Grand Strategy and the Major Factors That Affect It Introduction to Grand Strategy and State Interests and Threats, Systemic Influences on Grand Strategy, and Unit Level Influences Thomas Christensen and Jack Snyder, “Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks,” International Organization, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring 1990), pp. 137-168. Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 1- 45. Part Two: Comparative Grand Strategies Session Two Grand Strategy in World War II: Germany and the United States Wilhelm Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” in Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, and Alvin Bernstein, eds., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 352-392. Eliot Cohen, “The Strategy of Innocence?,” in Murray, et al., eds., The Making of Strategy, pp. 428-465. 2 Part Three: The Grand Strategy of the United States Session Three : U.S. Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War World—The Case for Primacy Bradley Thayer’s chapters from Christopher Layne, Bradley A. Thayer, American Empire: A Debate (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 1-50, 103-119. Bradley A. Thayer, “In Defense of Primacy,” The National Interest, No. 86 (November/December 2006), pp. 32-37. Session Four : U.S. Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War World—The Cases for Alternative Grand Strategies, Isolationism and Offshore Balancing Christopher Layne’s chapters from American Empire, pp. 51-102, 121-137. Session Five : U.S. Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War World – How Long Will Primacy Last, and Evaluating the Grand Strategic Choice of the United States Hal Brands and Peter Feaver, “Stress-Testing American Grand Strategy,” Survival, Vol. 58, No. 6 (December 2016-January 2017), pp. 90-120. Stephen M. Walt, “Keeping the World ‘Off-Balance’: Self-Restrain and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in G. John Ikenberry, ed., America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002), pp. 121- 154. Session Six: : Final Examination
Metody hodnocení
Course Requirements: The course language is English. An examination will be given in class. This will count for the student’s grade.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Professor: Bradley A. Thayer Course: Grand Strategy Contact information: thayerllc@gmail.com
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Předmět je vyučován jednou za dva roky.
Poznámka k periodicitě výuky: 1-8 March 2021.
Výuka probíhá blokově.
Poznámka k četnosti výuky: 1-8 March 2021.
1-8 March 2021.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2021, jaro 2023.